A Christmas in Boston

Today's post will combine some pictures from my past two weeks in the city. My parents visited this week, and a close friend of mine visited the week before. December has really been a great month, only to cap off next week with New Year's Eve. Let's start off at Faneuil Hall, host of New England's largest Christmas Tree.

The entire city has been decorated in green and red for the past month, with bells and ribbons on every light pole...

And more Christmas wreaths than you can count.

With the stress associated with the holiday shopping season finally coming to an end, it was quite nice to see the city completely empty on Christmas morning...

...except for Chinatown, which was filled with plenty of fellow Asians and our favorite Jews. After a brisk scroll in the morning, my family and I stepped into Pho Pasteur, a Vietnamese Restaurant at the edge of Chinatown. Here, we have some delicious lemon grass vermicelli.

It has been a really great holiday, and there's only more cool pictures to come next week. I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas, wherever you may have spent it. 

A Weekend in DC

As promised, here is my second post this week (..kind of). So I spent last weekend in our nation's capital for a 10 kilometer race. More on the race later, but we'll start off this trip with a glimpse of my friend's swanky apartment. 

She was nice enough to take me through most of the national mall, even on a semi-broken foot. To get there, we needed to take what is quite possibly the cleanest, most beautiful metro system in the world. 

After the metro our first stop was President Obama's white house.

We continued through the national mall and took a quick stop at the World War II memorial. Here, we can see a shot of the memorial as the sun started to set on the Washington Monument. 

As the sun completely set, we finished our tour at the Lincoln Memorial. President Lincoln looks quite content sitting, forever enshrined in marble... 

...Back to the 10k, unfortunately it didn't happen. A combination of bad weather, poor health and an unreasonably early start time prevented us from competing. In the end though, it was a great month of training and a fantastic weekend in DC. Sometimes, the process is much more important than the outcome. You can ponder that, as I sign off with my friend interpreting the engravings in the Lincoln Memorial. 

Back to Boston next week...