Today we started in Boston by going to the Boston Public Garden. The garden was beautiful, with too many kinds of trees to count and a pond with swan boats going around. There were statues of ducklings that were to commemorate the book "Make Way for Ducklings", which is the official book of the Boston commonwealth. In the garden there was also a statue of George Washington that people decorate in sports jerseys or costumes for events and holidays. Next we started our tour of the Freedom Trail. Our first stop on the trail was Cobb's Hill cemetery. I noticed that there were no statues or angels on the gravestones, only skulls and crossbones. Our group leader Mrs. Cohlmia told us that the cemetery was made in Puritan times and they found it was against their religion to worship false idols, and angel statues were considered idols. That is an old tradition I had never heard of before. This was then first time I had ever seen so many graves for young children in a graveyard. Mrs. Cohlmia also told us that in colonial Boston people would throw their excrement out the window because there wasn't plumbing. This was very unsanitary so many children died due to lack of medical knowledge mixed with disease. Next we went to Paul Revere's house. We made a quick souvenir stop at this point. When I purchased what I wanted, the man at the register took my money and gave me change in five seconds flat, and I was out the door. That was different from in Norman where people talk more and don't try to rush you. Next we went to Paul Revere's house. We learned how he made the engraving for the Boston Massacre, had sixteen children, and got arrested early into his midnight ride. I felt like I learned more when we were at the place where an event happened or where a person lived then learning about it in a classroom. It seemed like Mrs. Cohlmia went into more detail about the subject then a teacher usually would.