Ben ready for a birthday at Mystic seaport Museum! His goal is to sail a small wooden boat!
Here he comes. Lila is saying good bye and see you later it is sleep time for her.
Ben and I paddle 3 miles up river.
Taking pictures everywhere we go, on water, on land, everywhere!!!
Ready to cross the lift bridge.
Ben getting excited to set sail. Note I am the photographer for all these pictures with my little snapshot picture.
Let's get going!!!
First you have to step the mast.
Finally we are sailing! Yahoooo!!!
Here we are together!
I think it is my turn!
Ben doing what he loves to do! and me sneaking up on him sneaking up on others.We went to the museum, sailed the wooden boat, walked through the Morgan whaling ship, learned about: cooperage, stars, barrels, and many things. We ended up at mystic pizza from the famous movie, "mystic pizza". Great pizza. we had ice cream and ended the day listening to a band in the park. We paddled home and now are blogging. Oh we did set out sailing ideas for the next few days. We will sail tomorrow to Dutch Harbor RI. with SW winds 10-15 (perfect) the next day sail from Dutch harbor to Martha's Vineyard a very long day of sailing it should be raining off and on. my first time in raining but the winds are still favorable. Sid the guy from the Maxwell's mooring gave me many sailing lessons and one of them was don't sail with a Northeaster around here. So friday and Saturday are supposed to be northeasters and we hope to hole up in a cove south of the chappaquitick bay on Martha's vineyard.
That's all for now. Big two day sailing. got to get some sleep.
blessings to all and happy birthday Ben!!! My Sweet!
Happy Birthday Ben! Pam, please pass my birthday wish on to Ben. I'm commenting on your blog rather than Ben's since your blog is more up-to-date. I guess we can give Ben some leeway since it's his birthday month. It's my birthday month too. Just think, we are now both perfect squares! It looks like you had a fun birthday in Mystic. You're a lucky boy to even get to sail a small wooden boat on your birthday.
ReplyDeleteHey, if you're going to Rhode Island, you could see the Newport Tower in Touro Park in Newport. Or you could see the Narragansett Rune Stone near Pojac Point on the west side of Narragansett Bay. The runes are supposedly carved on a boulder about 60 feet off shore. Author and geologist Scott Wolter from Chanhassen proposes that this tower and stone both predate Columbus and have a connection to the Kensington Rune Stone in Alexandria. I checked out from the library his book called "The Hooked X" and watched a History Channel episode on Youtube.com called "Holy Grail in America" after our family stopped at the Runestone Museum in Alexandria a few weeks ago. I think it's possible that these things are authentically old, but some of his ideas are bit far-fetched.......but it is curious that both the Minnesota and Rhode Island runestones have a hooked x and that Columbus used the same hooked x in his signature after sailing to America. Wolter says that Columbus was related to the Sinclair family and might have had information or maps from them that came from a legendary 1398 voyage of Prince Henry Sinclair to North America, which might have been a follow-up to the 1362 voyage to Minnesota by other Cistercians from Gottland, Sweden.