Next stop: The North End, aka. Little Italy, where I lived for one year after graduating from high school and doing City Year. It is a fun little neighborhood with a LOT of personality. It is even better now because they've torn down the highway and replaced it with green space and places to sit and water fountains. Big improvement. Anyway, it was the day before Fazal's 2nd birthday, so we let him pick out a dessert at an Italian bakery, one with berries on top (which could fool you into thinking it was a healthy choice) but which turned out to be in a chocolate bowl filled with creamy filling. After a long day being dragged from one end of the city to another, Fazal was on cloud 9. Can you tell?

The restaurant I worked at that year. I lived across the street from it. The street has changed a little bit, but not this place. If I've never told you stories from that time, come and sit sometime...

We were all happy to sit for a while.