doing things with a real life friend that i met in boston deserves it's own post.

last friday i had a real life friend that wasn't grace or dave!

(i really like friendship time with grace and dave and do consider them real friends too btw)

fun roommate for two weeks kelly had a friend come stay with us named mary. mary, like myself, had nothing to do during the day (because i guess some people work? it's weird) so i offered to take her to the places i had already been to and liked. 

before heading out she made breakfast and i drank apple cider. it was really nice. 

when we got off the subway jet-pack starbucks friends were ready and willing to give everyone free samples of coffee! i was so thrilled for mary that i had to document the entire three second event. 

we were about to take a tour at the trinity church but then realized it was such a nice day outside so instead i just took this picture in the gift shop and then left. look at the episcopalians having a sense of humor!

i really liked these

and this bird man that caught my eye while taking the picture above! 

it was like a real life bird show. they were all synchronized and would fly away together and then come back to him. bird whisperer perhaps? man i liked that! 

one of the many beautiful churches around here 

and one of many statues that i'm starting to become obsessed with. they are really just everywhere!

p.s. this is the one and only day there will be pictures of me that weren't taken with my own outstretched hand so this is a really big deal.

famous people! 

what is not to love about these men? one on the right came up and just started chatting away about how sir henry was the first governor and was beheaded and lucky for mitt romney that that doesn't happen anymore..then he kind of just disappeared and we never saw him again. i felt like we had our very own mr. tumnus for a minute.

once again i was obsessed with the lions

and the biggest fireplace in the world!

(i'm just making that up. it could easily be or not be true)

still like

people really are so studious here. and i think i would be to if i lived here. oh wait..

next mr. tumnus experience = THIS guy. just comes out of no where and starts telling us all the things we should actually be taking pictures of and takes us to the uncomfortable part of the library with all of the topless women riding horses mural on the ceiling haha. 

the library actually has a public bathroom which i never thought would be so thrilling but it really is. everyone HATES having public bathrooms in this city. 

after the library we decided to try and find the prudential center and then newbury street and along the way we passed the first church of Christ scientist church. i don't know how else to word that without it sounding ridiculous. but isn't it pretty? i really like this one a lot. 

since mary and kelly are catholic i've learned a lot about that church since i've been here! while i still lived with kelly we had some really nice religious discussions and i learned all about saints and how someone can become one. did you know that mother teresa is next in line to become one? i guess even if you didn't it isn't really a shocker but they are just waiting on a miracle to happen and then blam! she will be a saint. it is actually really interesting so i was thrilled to find st. botolph street and realize that he must be pretty cool to be a real life (deceased) saint. 

we finally made it to newbury street and i hated everything in forever 21 so i made mary take even more mirror pictures and not even in the same mirror most times. a nice friend and a good sport! win win

i needed to get back to the church to meet with the missionaries and their chinese investigator so our dreams of shopping on newbury street kind of died (perhaps we got lost a few times?) so we headed back to the subway. 

and this happened. it was the last one, promise. and it might be my favorite one. 

on the way to the church i saw this cute baby

and my little cemetary

a small amount of snow

and this/these building/buildings that i can't ever stop loving

and then i made it without even getting lost!

and that was last friday afternoon with my friend mary. if you want to come be my friend we can go on fun adventures too! okay see you soon in boston bye!