An American Tea Party

Today we visited Boston, birth place of the “American Revolution” and the Boston Tea party museum. This consists of very good reproductions of the original ships involved in the civil disobedience that led to the start of the war of independence. The girls got to throw chests of "Tea" in to the harbour and we all were given parts of participants in the original Tea party. The ships on display today are different to the one I visited when I was here 30 years ago apparently the one I saw, was lost in a fire several years ago but they have taken the opportunity to improve the whole museum experience. It is very clear that the Americans are very proud of their history and nearly everyone has a good understanding of it (that may be because it is short 400 years and uncomplicated) unlike many Europeans. We also explored Boston seeing other key sites of the “Freedom Trail” and also found the “Cheers” bar from the TV series.  

 

One of the Tea party ships

 

 

Alison gets rebellious

 

The meeting house where it all started

 

 

Cheers!