This Friday was awesome! We went to drink with my parents and Finnish friend, Sirena. Her family is coming to Japan next day! We shouldn’t giver her so many drinks, but we did it! She was claiming she cannot drink so much. In the end, she drunk a lot and we were so happy about it!

first place was at Izakaya! 1280yen ( around 8.5 euros)  It was drink free for 2 hours.

girls and boys

After we said ‘bye bye’ to my parents, we went to bar ishee. We wanted to see the rock band at Cyclone, but it was over. SO we asked which rock bars are good around Shibuya?

The band ‘ISIS’ from US was there. (originally from Boston). A member of ISIS recognized my University too! They had the concert next day so doing pre\party at the bar isshee! We took a memorial pic, hahaha

And Andreas and Sirena spoke in Japanese all day! They said it was good practice speaking in Japanese! The Japanese customers at the bar were amazed with their effort to use our language! Anyway, we will continue partying on Friday from now on!

On May 9th, we went back to Boston from Canada without any problems All of us got a lot of energy from Niagara Falls to survive for the rest of year! The flight was only 1 hour, was very short

At the same day, we visited to Museum of Fine Arts. After 4 or 5pm on Wednesday, the admission fee is free for everyone. Yay, we saved 17 bucks for each I had been visiting there many times, but the collections are very interesting. I did not mind visiting that museum more. Especially, the Egyptian are good. And they have many Japanese collections, and even the Japanese garden outside of the museum Visiting at the museum was our art class,hehehe

in front of MFA

inside

There were a couple of the paintings from El Greco which I saw many of his in Toledo, Spain:) Those paintings were reminded me about my honeymoon memory

El Greco

Claude Monet

Then, the last day of staying in Boston, on May 10th, we enjoyed with our time as much as we could in Boston. Boston Common (park) was our first stop and a place with beautiful scenery. Many flowers were opened. My mom likes flowers very much, so she loved this place. My sister likes playing with animals. There were many squirrels and ducks. She loved this place, too. Boston has four seasons so you can enjoy with seasonal scenery each season

Next, we did a little bit walking along with Freedom Trail. If you follow with the red line, this line guide with the historical place. But it has 4 km(2,5miles)…We went inside of some museums

Then, it was shopping time Oh no, I could not going shopping…because I was suffering with excitement of shopping for a long time ,even with window shopping… But I filled up with satisfaction from this trip. Now I was ready to suffer one more time

Really really last day…it was the time to leave Boston, and say good-bye to my family. Their flight was at noon, and mine was around 6pm. But I went to the airport with them, and waited for a long time there alone Well, that was my Boston trip diary.

->->->Byebye

But…when I arrived to Helsinki, my husband was sleeping and did not pick me up According to him, he set up the alarm, but he did not wake up and continued sleeping…hahaha. **Yeah, that is my husband

Lately, I have been taking one summer course with Andreas. This week is the last week, but we have to finish our project by the last day of June. We are going to travel from July so…I am going back to Japan for one month, and Andreas is going to california for one week. Then after the US trip, he is also coming to Japan.

On May 6th, Andreas had to go back to Finland. In the morning, we went to Trinity church for sightseeing. But everyone was hungry…so that I took all to my favorite place, Sushi restaurant(Shino express) in Boston. They have a good deal with a lunch menu,hehehe. We had lot of suchi there and got ready for sightseeing.

inside

outside

Reflection**The mirror building is called John Hancock Building.
It is the tallest building in this area, New England.

Boston Public library

Andreas went to the airport, after we said Bye-bye to him.

My sister wanted to go to Museum of science, so we went to the museum. This museum has IMAX and I knew that my sister would like it We chosed this film “Grand CanYon” since we’ve never been there. One thing I like most in the USA is that everything is so big I think that is nice because I am not used to seeing a big screen,museum,etc…

found R2D2—>
This is a mailbox, peace

My guess was correct. They love that museum,hihihi. After that , I took them to the shopping mall close to that museum. The place is called galleria mall where is the biggest mall in Boston area. At this mall, me and my mother bought a pair of sandals. Those sandals are for this summer

**If you like to go shopping, I think Boston is better than NYC. In Boston, the tax is 5%,but in NYC is 8,625% now. Good thing in Boston is that there is no tax less than 175USD for clothes and foods**

Next day, we were going to Canada!

Yes, my trip to Poland is coming in 2 weeks I am so excited about it, so I have to finish my previous trip diary, hehehe.

I talked with my parents by Skype today. One of my cousins is going to have a wedding party. He lives in Aomori located in the north part of Japan. At least, we can take a short trip in Japan this summer Omedeto-de arimasu.

On May 4th, I took my mother and sister, Kyoko, to my school and got the ticket for my commencement. I showed the library, Curry student center, and some classrooms where I was taking classes
My mother was impressed with my school because the classrooms were very nice, the university was large and nice. I never expected that my family member would visited to my school during my school time. I was really happy at that moment

The building behind us was my department, Department of Chemistry.

My mom and a school building

Then, I took all to Boston Duck Tours. I have done with this tour once when I was a student. It is similar with a tour guide. The difference is to drive in Charles River!

Map of Boston. The red line is a route of Ducktour

Our guide. He was so funny.

Well, I thought this was good idea to show the city of Boston, but everyone was so tired still. They were falling asleep during this tour OMG, it was very expensive place to take a nap, hahaha. Anyway, it was very fun tour After one week, you will receive a picture from them.

not sleeping YET —-> Oops

This is the pic I received

Me and our tour Duck

*Trinity church* *Boston Common*

more pictures

And we went to Quincy market for shopping. There was a boy played a drum and he was cool!

That was a kind of all what we did on that day. We went to the same pizza shop for dinner and prepared fot the next day

On May 4th, finally that day was my commencement. I did not participate in this ceremony last year, because that day we had our wedding party in Mexico. BUT I really attend this. I arranged with my school from this February. It was very strange feeling for me. Even though I finished my degree, I was felling like still continuing studying

In the morning @ hostel

Taking a photo by myself.Just before the commencement.

That day, I was wearing a cap and gown all day long to be a NEU commencement girl! Even when I was at the Italian restaurant,hihihi.

kampai:)

Now my feeling is like I am completely ready for my next step

The ceremoney held in the TD Banknorth Garden , whcih is a huge area. The Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins (NHL) play there. It was very good memory for rest of my life. During the ceremoney, my mind reminded me about my memories I had in US like my friends, professors, classmates, etc…I will never forget about this time in US.

~~**I thank you for my parents to supported me a lot again **~~

My first day @ Boston on May 3rd, I was going to meet my mother and sister. Since that week in Japan, we had a holiday week calls ” Golden Week“ So they came to join us in Boston. The reason why we all went to Boston was for my school’s commencement.

This same day, Andreas and I left in Mexico city and said Good-bye to our parents. Our flight was very early morning, so we were supposed to have a breakfast together at the airport. BUuut, our flight was canceled and we had to take another flight right after we checked in… We all felt very sad…

After several hours , we arrived in Boston and looked for my family. It was around 7pm, so we just had a dinner at a pizza shop, “Crazy Dough’s Pizza“. The prices were very cheap, compared with the Finnish prices Like, one big slice of pizza were 3-4 US dollars and one pitcher of beer were 4 US dollars . A pitcher is almost 2 liters!

It was a very long time to see my favorite place, Boston. I was very excited about staying at Boston, and happy to show my school to my family

Bye-bye Mexico city.**OMG, a lot of air pollution… 

@ Pizza shop, Andreas and my mother

my little sister and me

  cheap beer