Sunday, February 8, 2015

Patriots Parade on Boylston St.

Last Wednesday

I went with my dad and my brother to the Patriots Parade in Boston. Boy, was it FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You were frost-bound. It felt like a hundred below zero (in my perspective).

We took the train in and it was packed with pats fans. Only us 3 and 2 other people made it onto the train, the rest of the people who had been waiting on the platform were told to wait for the next train! The seats were filled and the aisles were filled.

When we were walking towards Boylston St., we got interviewed by NECN. The gentleman asked us 2 questions, and I thought we answered them well, but I guess they were looking for rowdy loud fans to be on tv once we had watched the video. Kind of disappointing, because I do want to be on tv.  It was 9:30 am by then, and surprisingly there were not much people standing behind the gates, so we found a really good spot.

My toes started numbing up and felling raw, so about an hour or 30 minutes later right as City Sports opened my dad ran to the store and got hand warmers and toe warmers so that we wouldn't feel like our feet or hands were about to freeze off. Dad was our savior when he did that, because  I bet I couldn't stay that long without something warming up my feet and toes. We had to wait like 2 hours maybe even 3 hours for the parade to "start" BUT, the patriots were 40 minutes late!!! So, we had to stay in the cold for 40 more minutes!!

Across the street in a building there was this flexibility room called "The Genius of Flexibility" and there was this guy stretching in the window and looking out the window, and the three of us just said and thought "I wish I was warm in that room getting smoothies and stretching and have a relaxed time, and my dad said "Next time we come here, we should book ourselves a spot at The Genius of Flexibility."

People kept screaming, and we thought the first duck boat would be coming by, but then it would always be a police car. Seriously people, c'mon, its a police car!

But finally, the first duck boat came with Tom Brady, but he was on the other side of the boat, so we saw Jimmy Garapolo. I'm only going to tell the major patriots.

We saw Julian Edelman he was very cool. He was on top of the duck boat sitting and he had two signs: one that had Richard Sherman about to cry at the end of the game when it got intercepted, and remember when they scored because Derell Revis couldn't get there on time, well Derell Revis is number 24, and the score was 24 for them he held up his fingers saying 2 4, so when he held up four, and we won our fourth super bowl, it was clever to make a sign like that.

OH YEAH, WE SAW GRONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He had a bouquet of flowers, so, my theory was that someone gave him the bouquet. And, get this, he was tossing the flowers out to ladies. I love his kid like smile!

We also saw Malcolm Butler WHOOP WHOOP!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't think it was him but then I was like oh its butler! #HERO. Then I started screaming a lot.

I also saw Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick, and I swear Bill Belichick looked me in the eye. I swear!


I also saw Stephen Gostkowski (our AMAZING kicker) who has kicked field goals our whole season, and who has not let their toe get numb during the cold.

Then, I saw these 3 guys, one was Lagereate Blount, and there was 2 other guys. on the music box, being patriots swag.

A lot of people were there and it was so pats nation WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#patsarebeast

2 comments:

  1. What a wonderful, if cold, memory! Well told Nuala! Dad

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  2. You'll remember that day forever, Nuala. Sounds like it was a blast, despite the cold! So happy you got to experience that. You have a nice dad!

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