Hurricane Earl

last night it was sooooo hot again. i was waiting for Earl to come... but he did not. not yet. it rained a little, and the governer declared a state of emergency, in case Earl will/would be bad. it seems luckily that earl has significantly weakened, but heavy rain is expected late this night.... maybe we get another flooding of the subway....

above in fact is not a flooding, its some water bassin next to the scientist church. And today i am leaving early...! (its almost 5 and friday, so thats allowed), because tomorrow we have to get up real early!!!!! pictures surely will show why, later this weekend.. :)

Prudential center

prudential, as seen from the first (or last) stop of the green line, lechmere. actually only yesterday (after already almost 3 months!) i noticed that you can nicely see it from there. but thats most likely because im always reading, except yesterday, when i had forgotten my book!

Traffic light

to divert a bit from our amazing, exciting, fancy new apartment, a picture taken from the car, in the center of boston. as mentioned before, here everyone thinks: i am first, no matter what. and see, the lights are green for the car, yet all pedestrians just cross the road. this happens all the time!! everyone just crosses (sometimes also cars), paying no attention at all, no, just going! even so a car is coming at full speed. even so the car is honking... people just walk, and at their choosen speed. really, its unbelievable...

Smart marketing

prudential center does not have that many nice shops. but it does have zombies once a year (see yesterday), and it has a food court where they have one shop that sells good coffee (which is rare), and very very tasty cookies... so we wanted some cookies. since it was almost closing time, you got 2 cookies for the price of one, that was nice!. we thus choose 3 cookies and got 3 for free. but then the lady said: ah, if you have 6 cookies, you get another 6 for free! and thus we were so stupid to choose now 12 cookies, resulting in us paying for 6 cookies, instead of the 3 cookies we initially wanted.... now isnt that a smart sales-technique.... she got rid of her last cookies and she made us pay for them without us realizing it at that moment.
but the box she put the cookies in was sooo nice and i liked to walk around with it.. :) and we still have many cookies.. (1 cookie is almost like a meal....).

Bostonian zombies

sitting in the subway there was a couple putting blood stains on themselves with red paint. the guy wound a bandage around his head, and the girl was putting one around her knee. a party, we thought?
somewhat later while leaving prudential center, many, many scary-looking people were walking towards the food court entrance of Prudential. the stream of people seemed endless... and the wounds all over their bodies looked very real.... must have been scary, sitting in the food factory, eating your fries.. and suddenly all these zombies coming in. i think there were like 500 zombies flooding prudential center. but as sudden as they appeared, they were also gone again.
what it was? no clue! and so far i have not been able to find anything on the internet about it..
in this pic the girl is "handing out" blood......

Outside hairdresser

this is just outside prudential center in boston, a shopping area with a large food court. the weather was nice! what can i say about this pic? not much.., i just thought it was worth taking a picture...