One year to conquer Boston

The List

The definitive to-do list of things to experience in Boston. Always open to suggestions from others- just send them my way via the “Ask” button up top.

Historical Sites & Landmarks

Boston Tea Party museum  April 27th 

Walk the full Freedom Trail

Charlestown Naval Yard

Old North Church August 18th

Walden Pond October 14th 

Castle Island

Patriots Day Battle of Lexington Re-enactment FAIL- overslept. Do they really have to do this at like 5am?

Bunker Hill Monument

JFK’s House in Brookline

JFK library

Restaurants & Bars

Make a firm decision on who makes the better canoli- Mike’s or Modern Pastry April 10th

Giacomo’s

Rialto

Craigie on Main

Toro

Ice cream from Toscanini’s July 22nd

Dali

Oleana

Union Oyster House April 27th

Border Café in Harvard Sq February 20th

Anna’s Taqueria September 22nd (and May 2011, oops)

Top of the hub  January 17th 

The Chart House

East Coast Grille Hell Night (still debatable- there’s rules as to what you have to eat, and I have dietary restrictions)

Sonsie

Mr. Bartley’s Burgers April 24th

Santarpio’s

Tasty Gourmet

The Publick House  December 3rd

Super 88 

Zaftig’s

JP Licks July 21st

Hungry Mother

Gourmet Dumpling House

Piattini April 29th

Erbaluce

Toscano

Deluxe Town Diner

Museum of Fine Arts

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

New England Holocaust Memorial

Mapparium January 27th

New England Aquarium

MIT Museum

ICA October 20th 

Shalin Liu Performance Center (Rockport)

Rose Art Museum at Brandeis

Harvard Museum of Natural History March 12th

DeCordova Sculpture Park September 8th

Events

Revere Beach Sandcastle Competition July 15th

Watch the Boston Marathon (because as much as I’d like to train to run it, you marathoners are crazy) Ruined by the tragic events

MIT Mystery Hunt weekend January 21st 

Brimfield Antique Show September 8th

Experiences

Take a whale watch tour

Yankees-Red Sox at Fenway (we won’t say who I’m rooting for)

Sabres-Bruins at TD Garden

Knicks-Celtics at TD Garden  March 26th 

Jets-Patriots FAIL- nobody else wanted to pay for expensive Pats tickets

Bills-Patriots FAIL- nobody else wanted to pay for expensive Pats tickets

Catch a New England Revolution Game August 29th

Kayak the Charles August 19th

Visit Cape Cod

Take a water taxi to the airport

Outdoor movie at the Hatch Shell

Shakespeare in the Park in the Commons

Attend a Beanpot Tourney Game

Take a sailboat ride in Boston Harbor

St. Patty’s Day in South Boston (I’ve been out of the country on St. Patty’s Day for each of the last couple years) March 17th (duh)

See a Dropkick Murphys show

Goofy sites/attractions

The Ugly Art Musuem

Goals

Photograph every T stop in Boston

Catalog odd art installations around Boston (there’s lots)

Photograph every painted electrical box in the Boston area

Other

Sam Adams Brewery

Harpoon Brewery October 2nd

See the full Arbortoreum October 28th

Hang out on the Harbor Islands

Tazo chocolate factory tour

Go to the top of the Hub January 17th 

Ice skate at Frog Pond

Go to a BOS symphony concert at Tanglewood August 25th 

Tour the Boston area colleges

Fort Sewall

Hike/ski Blue Hills Reservation

Fresh Pond

Mt. Auburn Cemetery