I learned a new game yesterday and it's pretty cool!!
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocce)
It's almost like bowling, but instead of knocking down pins..you are trying to get your 4 colored balls as close to the target (pallino) as possible. That's how you earn points.
They have "lanes" in one of the North End parks built especially for this game. Devina and I were just wandering last night and found these old guys in one lane playing and a bunch of college guys in another playing. We stuck around and watched for over and hour because it was that interesting!