DAY ONE.

We finally arrived at the Boston International Hostel after a long car ride! Our van beeped when we reversed, by the way. I thought this was noteworthy. It made us very conspicuous (and perhaps important? Nah.)

Once we arrived, Katie and I went off to find parking and that was an inadvertent adventure. We basically got pseudo ripped off by this sketchy dude. We bartered him down to $20/day for parking, down from $30. We also had to pay the entire $160 up front. He was a bit...difficult...to deal with, so we circled a couple of blocks (including a teeeeensy alleyway that the van miraculously squeezed through) and ended up back at square one. Mr. Sketch won.

We all ate tons of chicken teriyaki and now we are here, on the first floor of this super cute hostel. We are obviously facebooking, blogging, and staring at all the ~foreign~ kids. They keep looking over at us, probably because we are loud, obnoxious, and overtly American.

That's all for now! Tomorrow, we're visiting an artist's house and seeing the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

--Vicki