So our Oscar predictions were a little off. We had a good night watching the whole ceremony live, at a reasonable hour. We haven’t seen ‘Crash’ yet but apparently the DVD sales have shot up by some silly percentage. For me personally ‘Munich’ was the best film I’d seen closely followed by ‘Brokeback Mountain’ For ‘Crash to be better than those two films alone means it must be worth a look.

This week was Restaurant week in Boston, this involves some of the more up market places putting on a three course meal for $20.06 per person for lunch and $30.06 for dinner. This whole promotion is put on around this time every year because it’s a slow month for tourists. The problem was most of the places put on a limited set menu, with drinks and tips we would still have spent around $60 for lunch. So in the end we decided to go to our local ‘Woody's’ for a pizza and a couple of Stellas costing us a grand total of $20. Value for money.

Em’s applied to run the New York marathon in November. She’s been placed in a lottery and will find out in May if she has been accepted. Em’s been running quite a few times since we got here. I’ve just bought myself a new pair of Nike Pegasus to join in with her training. Went for our fist run together and I couldn’t keep up with her. She just ran along effortlessly at her comfortable pace leaving me behind. I felt like crap, so unfit. I’m going to need a couple of weeks to get up to speed and keep up with Em on these runs.

The weather has starting to pick up lately, we’ve had a couple of good warm days going into this weekend. We even got a bit sunburnt on Saturday. Looking forward to the spring and summer. Speaking of summer and training we’ve found a cool little bar called ‘Bukowski’s’, we plan to get our drinking legs back here for the BBQ in June. Looks like they do a mean cheese toastie too.

Pictures, from top right going clockwise.
For some reason the students like to throw theirs, or other peoples trainers into the trees. I don’t know why but there’s a few trees decorated with them. Sunrise after walking Em to work. JP Licks ice cream parlour, I had cookie dough, Em went for the vanilla with fudge sauce. Cow painting on the wall of JP Licks. Bench by the side of the Charles River. Me walking home from Bukowski’s. Em walking home from Bukowski’s. Em enjoying a pint of Guinness in ‘Sola's’ one of our local Irish bars. Middle picture is of the bar in Bukowski’s.

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