Sunday, June 13, 2004
ipswich
Yesterday, Michael & I rented a car for the day, so we could drive somewhere nice. This time we ended up getting a Pontaic Grand Am. We first ended up driving to Staples so Michael could look at office chairs (the one he had before hurts his back somehow), and plus we had a 12% off coupon, and it was the last day to use it. While we were there, Michael ended up helping this Russian woman speak to one of the workers there (she needed someone to translate). The Staples people were really grateful for him helping out, so they told him that when we got to the checkout counter, to ask for the manager and he'd give us a coupon. So when we did finish shopping (we ended up just getting two crates of water, plus a recycling bin and some trash bags) we called for the manager, and the guy gave $5 off coupon! It was pretty cool since we had already saved 12% on our stuff, so we only ended up paying $10.
Anyway, when we finally got back from Staples we had lunch (the leftovers from Bombay Cafe takeout, which were good), my leg continued to be hurt pretty badly. I didn't know what else to do, since they kept cramping up. We ended up going to Urgent Care at MIT medical, and i was seen pretty quickly (no other patients were waiting). The doctor said there was no sign of a mensical tear (whatever that means) and that my joints looked ok. She prescribed 800 mg of Ibuprofen (which is 4x as strong as the kind you get over-the-counter) for the inflammation. She told me to keep walking, as just stopping all exercise all together could make it worse. Weird. Although i was confused about that, i sort of believed it as the pain was really get worse on Friday when i was just sitting in my office doing nothing.
Anyway, by the time we went and filled the prescription (we had to go to Inman Pharmacy on Cambridge St, cuz it's covered by insurance) it was around 3:30..we didn't end up taking off for our "day trip" until 4pm! So we drove for an hour to Ipswich, to see the Crane Estate at Castle Hill(from the description on the website, it looked really interesting, even though we weren't going to be able to take a tour of the actual house). When we finally got to the entrance however, the guard informed us that it was closed for the day, since there was a private event (a wedding). ARGH! I guess it was our own fault for not calling in advance (the website suggested to do so), but what can you do. So instead we took went to the adjacent Crane Beach, where they just let us in for $5 (it costs $10, but we only had $9 left and the guard was nice enough to let us squeak by). We parked the car in the lot and just walked along the beach, which was pretty amazing! The sand was really white and smooth, and it felt great to walk on. The water was freezing though (i don't understand how some managed to swim in it...it wasn't a hot day or anything) but after a while our feet got sort of used to it (i think the just became numb). We took a lot of good pictures (Michael brought his tripod, so we were able to get more pictures of us together).
After the beach we asked some of the local people where a place to eat was, and they were nice enough to tell us how to get to downtown Ipswich. We got there, and the town is so cute..there's Ipswich First National Bank, Ipswich Party & Paper, Ipswich this and that...the town was the perfect small-town America, with its brick buildings, churches and narrow streets. I looked up the demographics and apparently, Ipswich is a town of only 4,161 people! That's really tiny...I thought i came from a relatively small town (Santa Rosa, CA which has 130,000 people).
Anyway, we went to a Thai place there called "Thai Rice Cuisine" which was pretty good (Michael had pad Thai as usual, and I had scallops & cashews dish). The drive back to Boston was ok except the getting into Boston part..the traffic near the Tobin Bridge was totally rotten. By the time we got home is was like 10pm and I went straight to bed, since i was all headache-y from the sun + the mega-doses of ibuprofen (at dinner, i accidentally took double the dose, so i had 1.6 grams of ibuprofen running through my system..!)
Anyway, when we finally got back from Staples we had lunch (the leftovers from Bombay Cafe takeout, which were good), my leg continued to be hurt pretty badly. I didn't know what else to do, since they kept cramping up. We ended up going to Urgent Care at MIT medical, and i was seen pretty quickly (no other patients were waiting). The doctor said there was no sign of a mensical tear (whatever that means) and that my joints looked ok. She prescribed 800 mg of Ibuprofen (which is 4x as strong as the kind you get over-the-counter) for the inflammation. She told me to keep walking, as just stopping all exercise all together could make it worse. Weird. Although i was confused about that, i sort of believed it as the pain was really get worse on Friday when i was just sitting in my office doing nothing.
Anyway, by the time we went and filled the prescription (we had to go to Inman Pharmacy on Cambridge St, cuz it's covered by insurance) it was around 3:30..we didn't end up taking off for our "day trip" until 4pm! So we drove for an hour to Ipswich, to see the Crane Estate at Castle Hill(from the description on the website, it looked really interesting, even though we weren't going to be able to take a tour of the actual house). When we finally got to the entrance however, the guard informed us that it was closed for the day, since there was a private event (a wedding). ARGH! I guess it was our own fault for not calling in advance (the website suggested to do so), but what can you do. So instead we took went to the adjacent Crane Beach, where they just let us in for $5 (it costs $10, but we only had $9 left and the guard was nice enough to let us squeak by). We parked the car in the lot and just walked along the beach, which was pretty amazing! The sand was really white and smooth, and it felt great to walk on. The water was freezing though (i don't understand how some managed to swim in it...it wasn't a hot day or anything) but after a while our feet got sort of used to it (i think the just became numb). We took a lot of good pictures (Michael brought his tripod, so we were able to get more pictures of us together).
After the beach we asked some of the local people where a place to eat was, and they were nice enough to tell us how to get to downtown Ipswich. We got there, and the town is so cute..there's Ipswich First National Bank, Ipswich Party & Paper, Ipswich this and that...the town was the perfect small-town America, with its brick buildings, churches and narrow streets. I looked up the demographics and apparently, Ipswich is a town of only 4,161 people! That's really tiny...I thought i came from a relatively small town (Santa Rosa, CA which has 130,000 people).
Anyway, we went to a Thai place there called "Thai Rice Cuisine" which was pretty good (Michael had pad Thai as usual, and I had scallops & cashews dish). The drive back to Boston was ok except the getting into Boston part..the traffic near the Tobin Bridge was totally rotten. By the time we got home is was like 10pm and I went straight to bed, since i was all headache-y from the sun + the mega-doses of ibuprofen (at dinner, i accidentally took double the dose, so i had 1.6 grams of ibuprofen running through my system..!)
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