After my doctor's appointment in Lexington, I did some sightseeing in town before heading to Arlington to have lunch at the
Blue Ribbon BBQ.
Blue Ribbon BBQ is a typical looking BBQ place, though more like a takeout than a sit-in place. Having $15 to spend, I decided to get the Trio Platter with Pulled Pork, Pork Ribs and Beef Brisket,
and poured samples of every sauce available to try.
The meat was actually really fresh and good, with the ribs just falling off the bone easily. Some of the sauces were a little too spicy for me though.
After my lunch I resumed my sightseeing, passing through Winchester,
and Stoneham.
In Stoneham, after taking pictures of the places I had missed out on before, I decided to grab my pizza dinner from
Amore Pizza in town, ordering the Italian Cold Cuts Pizza, consisting of provolone, hot ham, mortadella, and salami,
the Spicy Sausage Roll-Up, containing garlic, pickles and tomatoes,
and the Coated Skinny Fries, all to use up my $15 groupon.
All 3 were just so-so from a typical pizzeria.
From here, I headed into Burlington,
Wilmington,
Billerica,
and finally Tewksbury,
before heading into Lowell where the Harlem Globetrotters would be playing.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist,
195 Andover Street
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Kittredge Park,
Chestnut Street and Park Street
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Spanish Church of the Nazarene,
51 1st Street
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Finally, I decided it was too dark to take any more pictures, so I headed to the
Tsongas Center within the campus of
UMass Lowell to go see the Harlem Globetrotters.
I managed to find free parking nearby, thankfully, and headed into the building to collect my tickets.
When I entered the basketball arena, there was already a basketball game going on between 2 sets of kids, and they were pretty good actually (much better than me, at least).
After the game ended, I decided to head down where they were selling Harlem Globetrotter merchandise, and I decided to get a Harlem Globetrotters Basketball for myself.
Soon after, the event started. The announcer mentioned that the trophy on the sidelines would be awarded to the winner of the game, which would have different new rules added to each quarter in the basketball game to make things more interesting.
The mascot of the team, Globie, first came out and performed a "magic" trick, where he had 4 people sit on chairs in a tight circle, and after getting them to lie down on each other's laps, he removed all the chairs until there were none left, and the people still stayed in position. Pretty cool stuff.
After that, it was time for some cool breakdancing moves, with Globie pretending he was Michael Jackson.
Soon after, the Globetrotters themselves arrived on court and introduced themselves, doing cool basketball tricks all the while.
The game then started, with the new rule for the first quarter being that people could shoot 4-point shots from 4 spots on the court far beyond the 3 point range, and the players were actually pretty good at that. Other funny stuff included the players climbing up the nets and disrupting play and aggravating the referee.
During timeouts, there would be entertaining performances as well, sometimes including the audience.
An especially funny part was when a large balloon mascot, Big G, came out and started breakdancing.
The second quarter had every shot points doubled for the entire quarter. One player climbed up the net and stayed up there regardless of the referee asking him to come down, which was pretty hilarious.
They also tore the clothes off an opponent.
The new rule in the third quarter was to play with 2 balls for the first 2 minutes. The players were actually pretty skillful at manipulating and playing with 2 balls sometimes my themselves and scoring as well. The balls were pink to symbolize the fight against breast cancer as well.
Other antics followed.
During another break, the players got the audience to dance to the cult song YMCA.
After that, they got a kid to mimick the players' moves in order to win a T-shirt, and he actually did a really good job. The guy he was trying to mimic could not resist laughing after a while.
They gave him the shirt of course.
The game soon ended after that, the fourth quarter having 4-point shots like the first one. It was then time for autographs, which I decided to get on my ball from Globie, since that name was more significant than the players' names.
With that, I headed home, happy that I finally managed to get to watch the Harlem Globetrotters. They were very funny, although towards the end, their basketball antics kinda got a little old.
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