Friday we spent a good part of the day just sightseeing. We took the shuttle to
Copley Square which is in the center of Boston. I read about the city library and wanted to see it. It looks like a European Castle. Huge marble steps greet you as you enter. You walk up the steps to the main reading room I had read all about the murals in the guide book and that is what I wanted to see. The murals which were also on the walls up the steps were religious which surprised me. We did not have time to study them but just gazed and appreciated the beauty. We saw the reading room which seemed to extend a mile; Huge green lamps on every table. The room was packed with people reading or doing research. We wondered around the rest of the library. There was an exhibit on the top floor of Joan of ARC, another surprise to see a saint featured in a public place.

We crossed the square to Trinity Church. We were asked to pay there. At first Rick did not want to go in. I heard them practicing for a concert at noon. The attendant suggested we come back but I thought we will never walk back so we went downstairs to the shop and bought four dollar senior tickets. We also bought a tea shirt for Paul Walker which had Twenty Reasons to be and Episcopalian on the back I have not read all twenty yet.

When we walked outside it was pouring down rain and cold. I was very glad I had on my winter coat. We decided to take the subway but first walked about two blocks to the Christian Science Monitor Complex. This square is the center of Boston and where the famous Boston marathon ends. It is quite beautiful and amazing to see Trinity Church reflected in the John Hancock building.

We walked to the Christian Science monitor complex next. Our driver from the Trolley told us not to miss the Mapararium. We walked in the rain. The church was not yet open when we got there so we walked across the street and went to the library and museum where the mapararium is. We took the tour and saw the maparium which is a globe of the world in 1935. You are inside the world; the geography boundaries are different especially in Africa and Asia but most of the countries are recognizable and it is quite an experience. We learned all about Mary Baker Eddy, the only woman to found a religion from the talk and the exhibits which we went to next.