The Blue Hills.

Best Memorial Day weekend ever! I had so much fun and saw lots of friends. I'm so happy I got to spend time with everyone. It was fantastic!


On Sunday morning Jake and I began an adventure to the Blue Hills, which are just south of Boston. The plan was to take the T, then the bus, then the shuttle bus. Everything started out good after we made a quick stop at Shaw's. Anyway, we took the red line to Ashmont, took the bus to Mattapan, then found out the shuttle bus to the hills doesn't run on Sundays. My determination led us to take a 3-mile cab ride to the entrance. It took about 30 mins to actually find a cab, but the T-Mobile man helped us out. So that wasn't bad. About a 10 dollar cab ride, it could have been worse. So we hiked around for 4 hours or so and were ready to get back to the T. We called the cab company and asked for a cab. After telling them the address about 50 times they finally realized where we were and said a cab should be there in 10 mins. After 15 mins we got a call saying they were having a hard time finding a cab to pick us up. So I started to get a little worried, and we talked about walking back or trying to find a ride. The entrance to the park was already closed so there were about 4 cars in the parking lot. I didn't think the walk would be that bad, but Jake did it once and said it was miserable. In the parking lot, a few families walked by and I was too scared to ask for a ride. Then after waiting for a while a really nice looking couple came out of a trail and started walking toward their car. Jake and I decided we needed to just ask if they were going in that direction because we were sure a cab was not coming to get us. Jake politely asked them if they were going toward Mattapan Sq. The dude said, "Yeah, just tell me where you need to go." We were so grateful! They ended up being really nice, and as we were thanking them a million times and chatting, the guy said he lives right next to the Ashmont T stop and could just take us there. He also told us we could use his bathroom or get a drink of water at his house! He was very nice, but we just went to the T stop. Luckily we made it back safely and had a great time hanging out with friends later that night!