Well, if I didn't say it before this vacation was not overly planned. We decided after we woke up and the kids opened their Easter bags, that we would check out of our hotel and head down the coast of Massachusetts to the Cape.
After doing the scramble to get all of our jazz together and back in the van...after three days in the same hotel room, it was beginning to feel a bit like home.
We decided literally last minute to head on over to Fenway Park and have a look around. What's a visit to Boston with out checking out Fenway. It was opening day after all! Tickets were not to be had, unless you wanted to stand in line ALL day. And the game didn't start until 8pm, not exactly family friendly. So we just walked the perimeter of the ball park and got a look at the neighborhood. Very Fun! We would love to come back someday to go to a game.
I love this picture o the kids standing at the outfield fences looking in...the grass was so green...what a beautiful day for a ballgame!
There it is...the Green Giant! WOW, so glad we stopped and took a look around.
Heading south out of town we got off the highway at a little town called Quincy, named after the president John Quincy Adams...we found a little place by the sea that we could sit outside and have a great view of Boston in the distance. The Clam Box...this place was awesome. Cheap seafood! SCORE!
They had the best fried clams, french fries, and coleslaw. Perfect lunch by the sea.
We stopped in Plymouth, which they spell Plimouth (?), to see the Mayflower II. This is an exact replica of the original Mayflower. It actually reenacted the sail of the Mayflower in 1954. Apparently the original Mayflower was sold for scrap by the wife of the captain after he died. Plymouth was sort of a cute town but we were on track to make it to the Cape by dinner so we did not stay too long.
Before we left we took a gander at "the rock", Plymouth Rock. It was not what any of us were expecting. I was thinking more like the rock of Gibraltar or something. Something big enough to see from a distance. It is just a big rock...there are bigger around it, with the number 1620 carved into it. There is no actually written account of a prominent rock or stepping out on to a rock by the historians of the Mayflower. I guess it is just one of those things that as the years have gone on a story has developed around this big ol' rock.
We were one of a few people going out onto the Cape, EVERYBODY else was leaving...they had been there for Easter and were now on they're way home. We crossed the Sagamore Bridge and the traffic going toward Boston was backed up for miles. YIKES! Unfortunately nothing was open out there. We caught Cape Cod after a holiday weekend not quite in season...so it was a ghost town. Kinda a bummer. We found a new Hampton Inn at a fair price in Hyannis. Hyannis is the place you want to be if you have a medical issue when you are out on the cape, there was a huge hospital and every specialist known to man.
Over all the Cape was beautiful but disappointing.
We stayed up late and watched Easter service on our computer at LifeChurch.tv , it was an awesome service but was a late night.
