Just in case you have not heard, the weekend of April 18 is known as Boston’s Marathon Weekend. There are conventions all weekend where the runners will get there bag of “goodies” and of course their numbers for the race. The streets of Boylston, Newbury, and of course Lansdown St. are just mobbed with people. If you have to drive into the city of Boston I really do feel bad for you. It makes for quite an exciting sports filled weekend.
If Boston is so lucky, as they are this year, the Red Sox have a home series where they acknowledge the runners, the Celtics are in the playoffs, and have home games as well, and last but not least the Bruins are also making a championship run.
I was fortunate enough myself that I was able to go the Celtics game at 12:30 pm and also meet up with my friend for a pre-game meal and a Red Sox game. The pre-game meal was an event for John Hancock employees who would be running in the Boston Marathon on April 20th. My friend is one of those employees and he was nice enough to invite me to the festivities.
First pitch at Fenway.
With the Celtics game going into overtime I was starting to worry about making the second event on time. Celtics in overtime though, of course I am staying until the end. I am not my Grandfather who happened to leave a certain Boston College game before the end, yeah he missed the Hail Mary Pass by Doug Flutie. My Grandmother, to this day, still hates him for that. You have to understand my Grandfather though, the man can never sit still and sitting in traffic would be a horrific way to spend a half hour. So he leaves before the games are over and solves that problem, anyhow….
