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| Blackstone Benny |
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| Meat Stuffed French Toast |
The eggs were pretty interesting, since no hollandaise sauce was used at all. I thought the meat would be stuffed into the french toast, instead of being just placed on top of it like it was, which just made it a little typical. Overall, not too bad a meal though.
After breakfast, I passed through Hopedale,
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| Spindleville Pond, Green Street and Mill Street |
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| Mill Pond, 366 West Street |
and went for a short hike at Clark's Island Bicentennial Park, located at 20 Dilla Street on the Upper Charles Trail in Milford, where the path I took here is shown below in pink.
From here, it was on to Holliston,
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| Old Metcalf Pump House, Washington Street near Summer Street |
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| Factory Pond, 146 Woodland Street |
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| Upper Charles Rail Trail, 156 Woodland Street |
Sherborn,
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| Farm Pond Boat Launch |
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| Farm Pond Beach |
Dover,
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| Channing Pond, 47 Springdale Avenue |
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| Cochrane Dam, South Street near Fisher Street |
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| Walker Pond, 156 Charles River Street |
From here, it was time to head to my first event of the day, learning how to make a macrame bracelet at the Boston Bead Company, located in the city of Cambridge. Due to difficulties in finding parking, I was a little late, yet still the first one to arrive for my lesson.
Before we were to start on our actual bracelet, we practiced first with another set of strings.
After clipping down the base string,
With the knot tightly in place, it was time to learn to do a reverse double half stitch knot.
This is performed by clipping down the left end of the string,
then looping back under to form the first knot. With the knotting string now on the left, it is time to go back to the right, this time going under the clipped down string to the right,
then looping back to form the second knot. The result of doing this several times is shown below.
Our next practice was to do square knots. 3 strings are required, with the shortest string being the base string, and the other two are clipped to the left and right of the base string.
With the knot tightened,
making about 4 in all.
By this time, it had started snowing, so I was glad to be indoors, if only for the time being. With my deal, I decided to get the soup of the day, the Beef Chili, and the Shrimp Risotto (Arborio rice, mushrooms and asparagus in a white wine sauce) for my meal.
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| Shrimp Risotto |
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| Beef Chili |
Unfortunately, the chili was way too sour for my liking, while the risotto was just so-so. I tried to save the situation by ordering the Warm Apple Crisp (Layered apples, caramel topping and vanilla ice cream).
I had to go back out in the cold again, to pick up my friend and head to Jillian's, the bowling/pool place in the Fenway area of town, where we were organizing a meetup event, yes, in the middle of a snow storm. We arrived early in order to try to ensure that we had lanes to bowl in, but I guess there wasn't much of a need to bother anyway.
In the end, out of the 30 people that were supposed to come today, only 7 showed up in the end. We still had a good time , starting with a round of bowling,
then a few games of pool, before finally heading to Lansdowne Pub, a typical bar restaurant nearby for dinner, mainly because the snow was coming down real heavy by now.
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| Prime Rib |
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| Guinness Beef Stew |
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| Scallop Salad |
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| Crab Cakes |
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| Traditional Shepherd's Pie |
Of them, I managed to try the beef stew as well, which was pretty good. My pie was a little undercooked, but it was still tasty.
Overall I had a fun time tonight, although the drive home was horrendously slow. When I was about to get to my driveway, which unfortunately was up a slope, the road had not been plowed yet, and I got stuck, forcing me to go back down and take a long route back to the other side in order to go downhill instead to get to my driveway. I'm just thankful I managed to get home safely.
