Our Day of Neighborhoods

Carter picked me up in a zip car today and we went to pick up Claire and Norman for a day of touring neighborhoods. We drove to Charlestown which is so fancy now. 37 years ago I went to Charlestown to visit my friend Laura and she made me put a sign in my car that read, “no radio” so my car would not get broken into and my radio stolen. Too bad I did not have the money to buy a house in Charlestown then because it would have been a very good investment.

From Charleston we went to the South end. Carter and I have looked at streets in the South end and dreamed of her living there, but once again they are very far out of reach. Southie was next. Nice, young, hipper, not as fancy. We stopped and had lunch outside since Norman was with us.

Our tour continued to neighborhoods in Dorchester. Uphams Corner, Polish Triangle, Savin Hill, Ashmont. These neighborhoods are more affordable. We dropped Claire and Norman off at home and Carter and I went back to her Beacon Hill Neighborhood for tea at the new darling Beacon Hill Bookshop.

We had a tiny table in the courtyard. We had every staff member wait on us at one time or another. They went out of their way to give me gluten free items. Susu, the creative culinary director took a shining to Carter and offered her a job to work the tea service on Sundays.

We did not get a chance to see the book store because we stayed so long at tea. We couldn’t help ourselves because we were listening to the girls sitting next to us. One girl described a movie with Kiera Knightly that she liked, but when she went to find the book the movie was based on she said she couldn’t read it because it was half about the character Kiera plays and half about farming. Carter and I were waiting patiently for the woman to remember what the book was. When she looked it up on her phone and said, Anna Karenina Carter and I almost spit our tea out. Not a book about farming.

We walked back up the hill and up five flights of stairs to Carter’s cozy apartment to watch a movie. Time to pass out after such a fun day.