Goodbye Boston!

 Goodbye Boston!*

Goodbye Hancock Tower. Goodbye Prudential Centre.  We will miss hanging out with our Isis friends in your enormous Food Court, but my credit card will at last get a break from your extensive shopping opportunities.

Goodbye Copley Square.  I have to admit your Farmers' Market was pretty average, but you were a nice place to hang out in the summertime.

Goodbye Public Garden.  Zoë and I loved to walk around your lake and enjoy the beautiful flowers, but we found the Bostonians' obssession with the ducklings slightly strange. 

Goodbye Longfellow Bridge.  Our whimsical tour guide told us you were so named because the poet Longfellow would walk across you every day to visit his girlfriend in Cambridge.  I suspect that was a load of old bollocks.  I won't miss your narrow and disappearing pavements on our way to swim class, but we will miss your views across the Esplanade and river. 

Goodbye State House and Boston Common.  You were the first place we visited when we arrived.  We have seen you go from bare trees and brown grass, to green and lush with foliage. It's a shame that on hot days you are full of sunbathing bums and drunks. 

Goodbye baby friends!  You were Zoë's first ever friends and we hope we will stay in touch and you will stay friends for many years.  Goodbye Isis and our mommie's group and Teresa our teacher.  Thank you for all that you taught us in a time when Zoë went on her breakneck journey from newborn to chattering crawler. 

Goodbye to our lovely friends.  Without you I would have gone totally bonkers!  Thank you for your wonderful welcome, for being my friends and for making me really sad we have to go home. 

There are loads of other random things I will miss, like going to chiropractor, wandering down Charles Street, hanging out on the Esplanade, going to the swings, eating at Legal Sea Foods, strolling down Commonwealth Avenue, having a swimming pool, the wonderful hot weather (but not the wet, lousy weather), Willie the doorman, watching back-to-back-to-back episodes of terrible US TV dramas like Law & Order and Grey's Anatomy, the Cambridgeside Galleria, Macy's, Carter's clothes for babies, and people finding our accents endlessly charming.  Most of all I will miss spending so much time with my amazing little girl, who came on this adventure with us and was the star of the whole show.  Zoë, I hope you will read this one day and learn all about the cool stuff we got up to and how much fun we had. 

We have had a WICKED AWESOME six months; thank you Boston and goodbye......!

* With apologies to Goodnight Moon