Get to know Cambridge, MA . . . it's especially fun to shop in Harvard Square and to stroll around Harvard Yard or walk along the beautiful Charles River.

Get a birds-eye view of Boston from the Prudential Center Sky Walk

Walk around the North End, Boston's Little Italy. If you go, be sure to have a cannoli at Mike's Pastry at 300 Hanover St.!

Check out the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Take a hike. . .please don't take this personally

See the Red Sox... well, OK, you can't see them because they are in Atlanta the weekend of our wedding, but we had to include them anyway

Learn all about the Kennedy family at the JFK Library and Museum

Get a feel for African American history in Boston by visiting the Museum of Afro American History I African Meeting House

Visit the Museum of Fine Arts

Go shopping and watch street performers at historic Faneuil Hall

Take the Boston Spirits Walking Tour. . .we haven't been, but the idea is cute and so is the website. Browse with MS Internet Explorer to hear the sounds, or with Netscape to suppress them.

Take a Boston Duck Tour in an authentic, renovated World War II amphibious landing vehicle

For any other ideas, go to The Boston Insider web site

Things to do in Concord, MA - 15 or 20 minutes from the hotel (...and definitely worth the trip!)

Visit the Orchard House, home of Louisa May Alcott and the place where she wrote Little Women.. . it also gives you an interesting taste of Concord society in the 19th century with the Alcotts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau

See Walden Pond.. .less of a refuge than the times of Thoreau, but still beautiful

Other things to do outside of Boston

Visit Salem, MA and learn about the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 - approximately 30 minutes north of Boston