Beacon Hill, Baybee.......

Oh, Dudes.

I just got back from Boston. This time, I had work that I couldn't do alone so guess who ended up going with me?

That's right, friends! My dear pal MJ!!! How's that for a fun working trip??

We left early on Thursday morning and got there about noon and immediately had an outrageously expensive Lobster Roll for lunch.

Then? We were going to walk the Freedom Trail, but instead we stumbled upon a garden tour in Beacon Hill - OH YES WE DID!!!!

I wasn't about to fork over the $30 per person price tag of a walking tour, but MJ treated me. Wasn't that nice?

Yes, it most certainly was!

So...we got to see some adorable city gardens sporting high brick walls encrusted with wisteria in full bloom, tons of perfect hydrangeas and pretty little babbling fountains.

We even got to see small portions of a few of the houses. One of the houses had SUCH a great kitchen with a butler's pantry and marble subway tiles!! It was breathtaking.

HEY! Why don't we go for a little house tour in Beacon Hill??

Do you wanna? Sure you do! Come on!

Okay. This one? I'm not even going to show you the whole tour of this first one. Because quite frankly, its ridiculous - it really is. It's 15 million dollars and has something like 6 bedrooms and bathrooms. I can't even remember the details because they were too ridiculous for me to commit to memory. Even if I had the kind of money to live in a place like this, I probably wouldn't. It's just too much.

But here are a couple of my favorite rooms. And sorry - some of the photos are really small, but I couldn't fix that.

I can't figure out the deal with this room. It's either a second kitchen or a bar area:

This next one is the main kitchen:

I think this is another bar or butler's pantry:

A very small picture of a very large bathroom. Look at that shower!!! I think it's as big as my entire kitchen! I'm totally serious, too!!

The wine cellar:

The closet for the man of the house:

The super-awesome laundry room!!!!

Okay, so that's the crazy 15 million dollar house. I find it interesting that I only really like the rooms where a servant would spend the bulk of their time.

Hmmmm......maybe if I quit saying things like, "Duuuddde" I would quit thinking like a servant? Naaaah.

Okay, here's another house. It's somewhere in the 2-3 million dollar range I believe. Cute exterior, right?

The sweet kitchen:

I like the living room:

The office is my fave, though. Love that big houndstooth design for the carpet:

Here's the garden - very similar to all of the ones we saw on the tour. Not a ton of plants, but very neat and tidy:

The back patio:

The view from the roof of the house, I'm guessing:

Sorry I've been MIA, girlfriends. I've been busy with my Mom, working and just trying to get a few things organized around the house. You know how it is: reading blogs takes up a lot of time! Unless you're like Lisa from Coastal Nest - she's a robot and doesn't need to sleep. She probably just plugs herself in while she's blogging to recharge :)

I'll be catching up on my blog reading soon.