motss.con.ii
motss.con.iiThe following is my motss.con.ii con report, or my experiences of the 2nd soc.motss.con (held Jun 16–20 in Boston, MA). If you don't like such things, feel free to hit 'n' and not read it. It won't bother me. Much.
This was reconstructed from archived physical files.
Travel began late on Thursday evening. We traveled in coach on Amtrak between Ann Arbor (MI) and Boston (MA), with the train splitting into two in Albany (NY). It was an overnight run so we didn't get into Boston until 4pm Friday.
The welcome event was Friday night on the rooftop deck at 1270.
During the day we had a picnic on the Esplanade along the Charles River. That evening we had a couple of dinner options and I no longer remember (nor have receipts for) which choice I would've made.
My evening activity was attending Hugh Whittemore's play, "Breaking the Code," about Alan Turing. After the play there was "bar hopping" on the schedule, but considering I wasn't yet 21 I probably didn't take advantage of it.
We had a picnic on the Fenway by the Rose Garden, followed by visits to the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum and Museum of Fine Arts. In the evening I probably saw "Forbidden Broadway" at the Park Plaza Hotel before heading to dinner in, as the schedule said, "roving packs."
Monday we had dim sum at New House of Toy in Chinatown, then spent the afternoon at either the Computer Museum on Museum Wharf or the New England Aquarium. Dinner was at Legal Seafood.
Our train left South Station shortly before 5pm Monday and, like the trip eastward to Boston, was an overnight trip that got us back to Ann Arbor around 12:35pm on Tuesday.