Focht Family Blog

We checked into Normandy Farms Campground in Foxboro on Friday. This was the closest campground to Boston that we could find. Saturday we decided to take a child friendly walking tour of Boston. I’m not sure if you can see the markings on the ground but the markings show where the water used to be to show how much of Boston was created…

The tour talked a lot about Samuel Adams. Every time the tour guide said Sam Adams everyone was supposed to pose like the Sam Adams statue. Here is Timmy in his Sam Adams pose…

The tour showed a lot of the architecture in Boston. One of the things the guide pointed out was all of the different weather vains. Here is one of my favorites…

Here is Nathan showing the kids how the bricks were laid on a building that has made it strong enough to still be standing…

One of the stops was at a statue of the Democratic donkey. There was a spot in front of it for a Republican to stand where they could stand up to the donkey. Here is my mom by the donkey…

The guide also took us to King’s Chapel, founded in 1686. Here is a picture of one of the family boxes that people still sit in while attending services…

The last picture if from the cemetery behind King’s Chapel. Apparently at one point they were fixing things up and all of the headstones were moved and then replaced. All of the bodies are still buried there but the headstones aren’t where they started so no one actually knows which bodies are where. This gravestone was one that shows an “A” that they say helped inspire the Scarlet Letter…