The conference is over and I was able to sleep in this morning. The past 3 days I had to get to the conference at 8 AM (5 AM Los Angeles time) so today was a welcome relief. Unfortunately my first free day was greeted with rain and a significant drop in the temperature. That being the case we were in no hurry to head out the door. When finally ready to go we headed to Cambridge for lunch at Mamaleh’s Delicatessen in Kendall Square. This was not your typical deli. You know the kind of place I am talking about. Lots of waiters yelling at customers. An Abe Vigoda look-alike, old man hunched over at the cash register. The hostess (if there is a hostess) looks like someone’s grandma. First of all this place is located in a hi-tech haven. Google, Facebook, Microsoft and a variety of bio-tech companies including Amgen all have offices in the complex. The restaurant/deli was also very hi-tech. First you are greeted by a guy who looks much more like a Harvard MBA than your Abe Vigoda double. He then checks you in on an iPad and soon after you are escorted to your table. The food was great but marble rye bread with dijon mustard is not acceptable for a corned beef sandwich in my world.
After lunch we headed over to the Calderwood Pavilion to see the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of “Tiger Style”. This was a two act play about a Chinese American brother and sister who are trying to cope with their dual ethnicity. It was supposed to be a comedy. Patrice liked it but I thought it was a bore.
Feeling guilty about the amount of eating we have been doing on this trip made us decide to work out. We headed to the hotel gym. As you can see from the picture below the gym was very crowded.
I tried to find an available machine for my work out but only found the one below.
As you can see the machine was out of order so I decided to go take a rest since we were leaving for dinner soon.
Dinner was a very special event. We walked all the way from the hotel to Abe and Louie’s. This place had been recommended by 2 different people and it did not disappoint. Patrice had salmon and I had blackened halibut on a bed of lobster risotto. We shared butterscotch bread pudding for dessert. Patrice is a little jealous of my quest to see baseball games in all 30 MLB stadiums so she has developed her own little life challenge. She wants to eat bread pudding in every state in the USA. So far she has accomplished this feat in 7 (out of 50 for those of you a bit weak in US Government information) states.
After dinner we walked all the way back to the hotel so as to work off some of those calories. The restaurant is 0.2 miles from the hotel so we might be a little on the plus side tonight. If being cold helps burn additional calories we did fine tonight. There is no risk of me moving to this lovely town anytime soon (or ever). It was 45 degrees tonight (68 in Hermosa Beach) and that is one low number. We came here in 2012 and went to a game at Fenway Park. It was a day game and we thought we dressed appropriately. It was so cold there we had to buy jackets to put over our sweatshirts. We got a second chance to wear the jackets tonight (see below).
Tomorrow is our last full day in Beantown. We will try to have lots of fun for you.
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