Parade!

So, I took the T to the Boylston T Stop to walk to Chinatown for my interview. As I was walking out onto the street from the subway I saw a bunch of guard rails, and the whole section in front of the stop was cordoned off. When I saw all the fans in Celtics shirts and gear on the street lining up (It wasn't even 9:30 yet) I realized that today was the Celtics victory parade!

People were still lining up after I got out of my interview at 10:30a. Since I was thirsty I went to Dunkin Donuts to grab a coffee coolatta and decided I would just stick around and watch the parade. I was mostly curious as to how everything would go down-and thought it would be an interesting cultural experience. Plus, parades are always exciting-and its a unique opportunity since who knows if I'll ever live in a city again where the sports teams are doing well. lol...I wasnt sure if there was going to be craziness -not that Ive never been in the midst of an excited crowd before. But I think mob mentality is fascinating and its always interesting to see-even though it can be annoying sometimes.

It was actually pretty tame I thought. I guess it would've been more interesting the night of the win. Anyway, one thing that did annoy me, though was a couple of times a group of cops drove through the parade route on bikes and there were people that kept booing. I dont know, its not like I love cops or anything, but I think ever since I started teaching I have become more sensitive to that sort of thing-i.e. where there's a person who dedicates themself to serving others but those people dont appreciate it at all. Or like, people who are put in a disciplinary role- for the good of others-and people just resent it. Its like, theyre just trying to protect you, gosh! idiots. A couple of other people (and me as well) started cheering to drown out the boos after a while.

One funny thing though, was people were throwing a beach ball around and a couple of cops stole it and one held it down like a football and had another kick it-Charlie Brown style. lol. Everyone enjoyed that. But not when the cops ending up just confiscating the beach ball later! lol...

It was surprisingly not too much of a hassle getting home either. I was taking the T back to Kenmore station and we ended up being stuck between Boylston and Arlington (in the train!) for about 20 minutes. That was the only major thing. Once I got to Kenmore I was able to catch the bus, no problem. What was annoying was that after downing that coolatta I had to use the restroom and once again could not find one! That sucked. Had to wait til I got home. Not that youre at all interested in any of that...

anyway, here are some more pics from the parade. All I had with me was my phone cam so they arent that great-but its better than nothing I suppose!