ARC Girl in Boston

Took the Supervision in Disaster class this weekend from the Mass Bay chapter at their Quincy office. It was great! Even though it meant alot of driving etc. (Don actually did that!) But I would have..it is so valuable to get out of the chapter and State for that matter to see the Red Cross in the bigger world. My instructors were in a word AWESOME. Everyone in the class, who has probably had the advantage of many great instructors in that area agreed it was one of the best classes they had taken. For me it was wonderful as one of the instructors was one of those as we call them "warhorse" nurses who was trained way better than my generation. She was from the Hartford chapter and is at the
Administrator level (top of the food chain!) on National disasters. B.J. Crown. I got her card and email and know I will keep in touch with questions for her.

Don and Tyler went along for the ride which was great because I could not have driven all that way home last night. I was on info overload. They went into Boston and got a tour of Fenway park that sounded like a hoot. Some old Boston Irish comedian who knew every little nuiance of Fenway park. They walked around the Kenmore area, then went to Faneuil Hall and had lunch at an outdoor cafe on Newbury st some where. A grand day. Don talked to the concierge desk about dinner in the area as Deedee couldn't meet us in town. The woman was less than helpful.
The Red Cross office was on the t hird floor of a building that had a nice restaurant on the ground level and in hindsite that is where we should have gone. Instead we ended up in this
restaurant that was a throw back to the sixties... and the customers were the same except 30 years older which made them 90!!!!! I am not kidding. No one, I mean no one, in that place was under the age of 82!! They obviously had been coming there on Sat night for years. and years and ;years......you know the ladys with the tweed skirt and jacket ...same one they wore in 1965,
Having their Saturday night manhattan on the rocks. It was a hoot after we decided we were stuck and there wasn't going to be any way out of it. Tyler was not as amused. The other thing about a place like that is the food is good, consistently good but there is way too much. First you get the basket with the little individual wrapped crackers and the homemade cheesespread..
then there is hot bread. Salad comes with your meal as well as vegetable potatoe and entree.
Of course it was a seafood place and we all had a cup of chowder...so we had already done ourselves in. The Hostess..age 75, waitresses at least 55 and up. It was all very deja vu for Don and I as we compared it to places like the old Jed Proutys in Bucksport or Pilots Grill in Bangor or places we used to dress up and take my Marblehead grand mother to lunch The Commodore or Dills on the North Shore. We left without dessert too full!

Well off to the County tommorow and Wednesday and then I have another class this weekend in Rockland..its just a little busy right now. Not to mention what is piling up around here but I am making end roads. Lets see how this week shakes out.