I am in Newport today, and I have 20 minutes to kill as I upload photos, so thought I would write a brief update.

Yesterday was our last visit to Boston and I had a lot of ground to cover by bike. I left at nine in the morning, and started by heading straight to Harvard, in Cambridge.

Harvard is a really cool little area of Cambridge with some amazing buildings, and a sprawling campus reminiscent of UBC but with older architecture. I visited Harvard Yard and found the dorm where my dad stayed in his first year at Harvard (Hollis), and just took pictures of whatever looked significant.

After Harvard, I biked back into Boston to the south-western area, to check out Berkley School of Music. It was a pretty cool area, with obviously much more money than Capilano University, and taking a quick glance inside it looked like they had some really good quality computer facilities for music production and scoring. I then biked to Fenway Park which is just near there, and then biked through downtown and back to the ship.

We played our two variety show sets and our Frank Sinatra tribute, and then I headed to the spa. I did two cycles of heating up in the sauna/steam room then plunging myself into the very cold plunge bath, and topped it off with the jacuzzi. All of my biking aches vanished.

Today is the last day of our New England - Canada itinerary, so to celebrate we went into Newport and ate some lobster on a restaurant patio in the harbour. I am now a in starbucks uploading a number of photos from Boston, and having just skyped for a half-hour am going to head back to the ship.

 Final stop in New York is tomorrow, and I am thinking of going to the top of the empire states building, but we'll see what happens. Tomorrow evening we start our 12 day trip south to Miami.

One other thing - here is a website that has my ship's full itinerary so you can keep track of where I will be when:

http://cruisett.com/ships.php?ShipID=1&date=26