The one thing the boys wanted to do most in Boston was see Make Way for Ducklings. We'd read the book a bunch of times, and they desperately wanted to see Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and the swan boats in the Public Garden.   I was surprised that the swan boat tickets were relatively cheap: $4 for adults, $2.50 for kids to go on a 15-minute human-powered spin around the pond. We did a lap around the island where the Mallards to sleep at night. Pretty exciting. We walked around the pond after the boat ride. A woman stopped me — "Do you speak English?" — and gave me a bag of sunflower seeds to feed the ducks and geese. I found out Massachusetts people are known for being, uh, ----holes, but the people we met were super nice. . . . Adjacent to the Public Garden is Boston Commons, where we refueled and played at the Tadpole Playground. The Freedom Trail starts at the visitor's center at the Commons. I hadn't done it before, and didn't realize it was so clearly marked. The historic Corner Bookstore (a stop on the Freedom Trail) is now... a Chipotle. The first chunk of the Freedom Trail is all lumped close together, which makes it easy for little kids. We saw the State House, old churches, Paul Revere's grave, the site of the Boston Massacre and the site of the first public school in the US (founded 1635) within a reasonable amount of walking. Love that juxtaposition of the old and new. We followed the Freedom Trail as far as Faneuil Hall where we got distracted by lobster rolls.