Boston & Cape Cod

We flew to Boston on 6/2 for a business trip/vacation. The General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology was there from 6/2-5.  We checked into the Lenox Hotel Sunday evening. We got a great room rate (relative to the usual room rate of $300-400) thru the Boston Travel Bureau. Small rooms but nice and impeccable service. My wife, Patty, checked out the tourist attractions while I attended the meeting. She bought a City Pass online before our trip which gave her admission to a number of museums and tours which ended up being a great bargain. We attended a Customer Appreciation event at Fenway Park on Monday evening hosted by bioMerieux (microbiology lab products company). The Sox were out of town so it was a great way to see lots of the park. We took a tour and got to sit in the seats above the Green Monster and in the Press Box. Our tour guide informed us of ticket availability so we were able to get tickets to Wednesday nights game by being at the ticket office at 10am the day of the game. Patty got us tickets in the old seats on the 1st base line for $30! Wednesday was a long day for me as I had to get up at 4:45am in order to catch the 5:30am bus shuttle to the convention center for my 6:30am presentation on MRSA detection methods. It was drizzling on the way to the convention center and rained later in the morning and was wet most of the rest of the day. It let up late afternoon so it was dry for the Red Sox game that evening. The energy in Fenway Park is amazing when it is full of fans. I had to get myself a Sox hat and tee shirt even tho I remain a Mariner's fan (even now that they are playing the worst ever!!).