Independence Day on the Sailing Pavilion and CLGO's Vist

Summer has been busy and that's not going to change anytime soon.  Independence Day was an absolute blast, I've lived in the Boston area for three years now and this IS THE PLACE to watch the fireworks.  Everyone was out on the MIT sailing pavilion, we had food, drinks, sailing, (mildy inappropriate) card games, and of course amazing fireworks.  The view was fantastic, the only way to get closer was to be on the barge that was launching them (don't do that).  I could tell you what happened Paul Meggs decided to go nuts with his SLR and created this gem (if pictures speak a thousand words then this thing is an encyclopedia of how to party on the 4th of July)




After we all sufficiently recovered our guests from China arrived.  19 CLGO's are here to visit Boston.  Day 1 some LGO's took them around Harvard and Cambridge from some sight seeing and dinner.  Day 2 the CLGO's got experience Steven Spear in all of his High Velocity glory and we got some multicultural interaction in.  Turns out you can communicate quite well without being able to talk to them....this is not a comment on any language barriers (they speak English quite well in fact), we LITERALLY weren't allowed to talk to anyone while we played cards.  Again dinner and drinks happened all over the city with our guests (some of us went to Sacco's in Davis Square and it's heaven).  And finally Saturday came and with that so does a Fort Awesome party (for those not familiar, Fort Awesome is the customary house for LGO house parties).  The CLGO's were all about learning American culture via our BBQ and drinking games and taught us some of theirs as well (lots of yelling and drinking involved there as well).

All in all it's been a great weekend, some of LGO's/CLGO's are out berry picking as we speak, I on the other hand needed to sleep for a change.  But we still have yet to send the CLGO's off in style.  Tomorrow brings the Amgen/Bose plant tours and a farewell party later on in the week.

Eventually I will talk about school WORK in this blog....because it does actually happen..