summer in cambridge

on friday afternoon katharine chu and i explored mount auburn cemetery, the first landscaped cemetery in america or something like that. it is pretty gorgeous. the cherry on top, though, was being rewarded with a totally unexpected view of the cambridge/boston cityscape after a hot and exhausting climb to the top of washington tower [i think it said on a plaque that there were 97 steps, added on to climbing to the top of the hill that the tower is on].

i found a picture here of the view of boston, but friday was a much clearer day. there's a video on youtube that doesn't do it justice either, but gives you an idea.

wish i had brought my camera.

on saturday, kf, pr, & i took a leisurely walk down memorial drive to the cambridge river festival. we walked around, sipping on lemonade squeezed right before our very eyes, scored free chips and honey bunches of oats and burts bees line smoothing eye creme ['now get all the youthful without the yuck'], and expressed ourselves with sidewalk chalk. we also saw a man's checkered-shorts-covered butt get squeezed right in front of us. gross.

and i had a delicious twist cone with rainbow sprinkles.