sacco's bowl-haven

went up to boston this weekend to see rob and help celebrate his 30th... flew up friday afternoon on a cheap airtran flight to logan where rob met me... we took the T back to his place in arlington and hit up a local sushi place for nigiri and udon, then spent a half hour trying to find a liquor store that rob knew had a lot of good belgian beers.

we'd all rented hotel rooms downtown so that we wouldn't have to deal with getting out to arlington after the T stopped running so saturday morning we met ryan, steve, and alisa, who flew in that morning, and got checked in. after a quick slice of pizza i spent an hour at the gym in the hotel, then we met up with rob's girlfriend and a bunch of their work and college friends for stop 1 on the itinerary, dinner at penang, a cool indonesian restaurant and then jumped on the T to head out to somerville for a couple of hours of candlepin bowling at sacco's bowl-haven... sacco's hasn't been renovated for years, no fancy automatic pinsetter, scoring with a pad and pencil, the works... after two hours of unremarkable bowling we all walked over to the burren for beer and whiskey...

as the party crowd thinned down, we got back on the T before it stopped running to head back downtown... stopped by the hotel but the bar was closed there so we walked over to a place we'd seen while we were walking around earlier, Foley's... the place was half empty when we got there, plenty of tables and a good selection of beers.... i guess it was one of the last places open, since it was pretty packed by the time we left...

up early sunday morning for a quick workout before we had to check out from the hotel... easy flight back, no line at security...