Phase 8: More
museums.
#56: 2 Dunkin’ Donuts in one photo (no editing). A hallmark of the Boston area is the sheer magnitude
of Dunkin’ Donuts gracing its presence – it’s almost higher than the number of
Starbucks per capita. So clearly,
the intentional meaning of this clue was to get a photo where you could clearly
see two facilities in the same shot.
We accomplished this fairly early on, but given that our high-definition
camera shots were limited (what with 4 smartphone cameras and my almost-dead
Canon with the busted screen), we weren’t super happy with the results. However, we were quite happy with our
own interpretation of “2 Dunkin’ Donuts in one photo”.
#55: Best mural.
Taken at the Fire Museum, this shot was M’s idea – Boston burning.
#58: Fire museum. Not quite sure if you’re
supposed to be able to make some noise from that thing, but a girl can try.
#63: The biggest milk bottle. This was a no-brainer for some of us – those of us who actually
knew Boston, that is. J works at the Children’s Museum several days a week
collecting data on the kiddies, and he was well aware of this, as were L and M.
#30: A chalk drawing on the sidewalk. And clearly the best place for these was also the Children’s
Museum. We saw many, but decided
to include hop scotch!
#27: Donuts that are not for Dunkin’. We tried several things – life preservers, tires – but decided
in the end that some doughtnuts really are just not for dunkin’.
Phase 9: More water
fun.
#70: A barking crab.
Well. This was too easy.
#59: On a boat.
Normally I would feel a bit iffy about climbing into a stranger’s boat, but
somehow one feels as though they have carte blanche while on a photo scavenger
hunt. Oh, and we saw another team doing it immediately before we did.
#38: The Plywood Palace. No idea what this clue
really referred to, in the end. But we decided this was pretty close.
#49: Quacking at a Duck Tour boat. Really, who doesn’t quack when they see a Duck Tour boat? Gotta get on one of those one of these
days.
Phase 10: And even more water fun!
#40: The Big Dig. I
think we did manage to capture something that came of this, in the end, en route
to the aquarium.
#4: The fearsome fish: Codzilla. So – we really thought we had this one at the Chinese
supermarket. But when we randomly saw the real Codzilla, we figured we might as
well use the beautiful non-codfish from C Market as another epic photo.
#42: Photo of another team. There were many opportunities to take this photo – but how cute
that J ran into someone whom he knew from school in Mexico?
#48: Seals of approval. I think pretty much
every Banditos team today had this idea – but up to today I had no idea there
were seals available for free public viewing outside the aquarium! I hope they
have lovely lives :-/.
Phase 11: Hong Kong.
I feel this one
event should get its own phase – though many more pictures happened around the
same time because L & S broke off again to help with #66, the T. Up to today I also had no idea that
Hong Kong existed in both Cambridge and Boston, in addition to China!
#50: Go to Hong Kong without leaving Boston. How epic would it have been if we had also included the
one in Cambridge?
#19: Bronze shoes fit for a Bird. Larry Bird, that
is. L & S snagged this near Faneuil Hall.
#67: A hug. What’s
the best kind of hug? A macaroni hug.
#76: A giant golden grasshopper. Apparently there is one atop Quincy Market.
#62: A lion and a unicorn dancing on a roof. Boston
sure loves its animal-topped buildings. This one’s the old State Building.
#66e: Photos of your team on all 5 MBTA lines – the Blue Line. Since we were in the area, S & L
nabbed this shot.
#66b: Photos of your team on all 5 MBTA lines – the Orange Line. Perhaps nearly as elusive as the
Silver.
Phase 12: The North
End.
By far one of the
coolest areas of Boston. And one I
wish I went to more often. My favorite sandwich shop (which doubles as an Italian
grocery store) resides here as well – called Going Bananas, it also boasts
excellent smoothies!
#31: Public art.
This I just came across while going through photos – we had so many photos of
public art, we didn’t event attempt to take the “best” one on purpose. L took
it, and I really liked the perspective.
#3: Two Foo lions.
Unfortunately we didn’t notice this clue until we were well out of Chinatown.
Fortunately, we saw some awesome lions in the North End!
#35: With a statue of a dead white guy. A contender for
the easiest photo to take in Boston.
This one of J and St. Francis of Assisi was too adorable to pass up for
the winner.
#75: A high-five for the ages. Happenstance these photos happened to both be taken with St. Francis
– I just thought he’d be a great guy to high-five, independently.
#71: Re-enacting a historical event at its site. Another “forgotten” opportunity that worked out.
The original plan was to take a photo of us re-enacting the Boston Massacre at
its original location – but not drinking tea at Paul Revere’s house also seemed
fitting.
#72: This house went on a diet. Such a cute clue. And such a neat way to find out this
“skinny house” existed!
#32: A tourist carrying a Mike’s Pastries box.
Easy. Done and done. They’re a dime a dozen.
#33: A tourist carrying a Modern Pastry box. I didn’t even realize Mike’s had a serious
contender, but this was only moderately more difficult. (See a much later
section for notes on how difficult #34 was, though.)
#37: Recreate the Abbey Road cover (watch out for traffic!). Possibly the North End was not the optimal location for
this, but it worked out pretty well (note how carefully I positioned my legs –
the others had a good effort too ;)).
Phase 13:
Re-entering the heart of Boston.
#10: Team
pyramid. Our team was almost too
exhausted for anything resembling a pyramid at this point, but we attempted to
rally and came up with this. Another team saw us doing it, and we took a
picture of three pretty adorable kids doing a pyramid next to us.
#73: A giant tea kettle. M totally had our back on this one and knew exactly where this was
located, near Government Center and on our way to what we thought was going to be the last stop of the day.
Little did we know…
#68: With a historical re-enactor. L and I interpreted this one: I thought that it should
be a PP attaching to the NP immediately preceding in clue #67 (a hug); she
thought it should be a stand-alone. Either way, this one totally rocked. We
passed a pub (I think it
was the Green Dragon Tavern; at any rate it was around the corner from the
historic Bell in Hand) that had two extraordinarily-dressed period costumers
sitting in the window, sipping on a couple of Sam Adams, and L balls-ily walked
inside and asked to have her picture taken. And succeeded.
Phase 14: Our “Last”
Stop.
The last clue was
clearly indicating we should have a beer. Making us think we should go there
for the epic end of the day. It was nearing 6pm, and M was meeting a friend at
6-ish to have a drink before going to a concert of a choir she has been in for
a long time (though she took a break this year) called Coro Allegro. Originally
I had been planning on meeting up with her a bit before the start of the
concert (and even thinking I might go home and change beforehand) – but again,
little did I know. At any rate we headed to the location of clue 80.
#80: A place where you can see a cold Sam Adams across the street from a place where you can get a cold Sam Adams. At first we had just been thinking “statue” – statues are cold
and are pervasive in Boston. Somewhere around clue #80 it hit me that actually
dead people are “colder” than statues, and we realized the clue had to indicate
the cemetray (apparently called Granary Burial Ground) near the commons where
Sam Adams lies. Thus to Beantown Pub we went! Though it took about 20 minutes (and three servers) to get
the other kind of cold Sam Adams, it was worth it. Though there was crazy, bar-shaking bass, there was also
juice for my phone, which let me text about two people before it died
again. A day without phones is
like a day without… feeling tied down by technology.
