Wednesday 7/20
Josh and Jen were up and out really early for their 6 am
flight out of Boston (don’t think about it). We started out with a walk around
Barclay and Schoolhouse ponds (schoolhouse had geese, which we’d never seen at
goose pond). It’s a very pretty hike but unfortunately it was very, very buggy,
even though we were slathered in bug off. The weather was now hot and humid as
well, and would stay that way for the remainder of our vacation. We stopped in
to see Bubby on the way home and bugs crawled off of us onto her table – it was
pretty astonishing. We got home and made great use of the outdoor shower.
For lunch we visited a favorite from last year, the Seal Pub
in Harwich. Dave had chicken nachos, and that would have been enough for both
of us. But I also got stuffed quahogs (minced clams and stuffing, baked in a
shell, needs cranberry sauce to be perfect) and some spring rolls, which were
deep fried but still yummy, albeit unnecessary.
Our next stops were fun, we started at the RCA/Marconi
Museum where we watched a 12 minute film narrated by Walter Cronkite about the
history of the site, and then wandered around the displays where eager docents told
us about them, sometimes adding new information that wasn’t in the movie. Dave
liked it more than I did, and at one point he and a docent were happily geeking
out about vacuum tubes. I did enjoy it, just not as much. Two facts I didn’t
know: 1. The distress signal from the Titanic was sent/received from this
installation and 2. RCA was formed specifically to buy out Marconi when a US
general made the case that a US company should control US maritime wireless. Our
levels of enjoyment were swapped at the next place, the Chatham Shark Center,
where we admired a life sized model of the largest great white ever seen on
Cape Cod (Curly - she’s HUGE) and learned about the increasing number of shark
sightings and the reason for it (rebounding seal populations). We also learned
that if the JAWS shark had been proportional to its mouth it would have been
twice the size of Curly. I’m not sure the Center made me any more comfortable
about sharing the ocean with sharks, but we are certainly more well-informed.
When we got back Lynn met us at Bubby’s for pond time and helped us eat a delicious dinner of meatloaf and salad and corn relish. Having had a light dinner we obviously needed ice cream, so the four of us headed back to the ice cream café (it’s on Lynn’s way home) and this time I had the sundae too and it is perfect. Also I had NY cheesecake ice cream which was also perfect.
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At Barclay Pond |
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Like a Monet, only buggier |
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"My Nachos are Enormous!" |
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Blowing up the floaty. This made Bubby laugh. |
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A little quiet time |
There's corn relish left over - bring your own meatloaf.
ReplyDeleteAND I had a sundae too - Dave scoped out the place, noted the long line, and found the best quiet place for me to sit and wait for it. Now that's a son-in-l;aw to be proud of. As I am of your masterful lungs, my honey.