October 1-4, 2009 -- Connecticut Adventure Part I
Thursday morning we said good bye to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, what a beautiful place. We drove about 130 miles to Connecticut to visit our daughter Kristin and her partner Laura. We stopped in Providence Rhode Island for lunch and then on into Stonington, CT where we will camp for next week. We had a wonderful (vegan) dinner with our girls, delicious appetizers, “dark n’ stormy” cocktails, and a yummy potato-leak soup topped off with Laura’s special peanut butter cup dessert. We enjoyed our evening at the girls’ cute apartment in New London.
Friday the girls’ took off work to play hooky with us. We were joined by Laura’s mom Suz for a great day seeing the southeastern part of Connecticut. We went into Mystic for coffee and then took a nice nature walk on Barn Island; the dogs enjoyed this outing a lot. We went into Watch Hill a very nice sort of up-scale town, for lunch and another short walk out to see some amazingly beautiful homes and a light house. The coast line was gorgeous and we were lucky to have some great weather. That evening we took a cruise on the Mystic River on the Sabino an 100 year old steam powered ship. It was a great ride, we saw so many boats of all shapes, sizes and descriptions, there is definitely some money in this area. We warmed up over a great Italian dinner at A.J’s Bistro.
Saturday was a very damp rainy day. It rained most of the night and off and on all morning. The good news is that really wasn’t too cold, and we were able to get out in the afternoon and enjoy some sightseeing. Kris and Laura took us on a meandering drive through the woods; we saw some amazing fall colors, and picture book scenes of ponds and gorgeous old homes. We ended up in East Hadum at the Goodspeed Opera House. We saw a fanatic production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”. What a great treat the girls provided us with. We all thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
Sunday morning we were glad to see the sun back out again. We joined Kris at the Women’s Center of Southeastern Connecticut carnival fun-raiser. This is the organization that she works for; it was a great chance for us to meet her bosses, co-workers and friends all of whom think she is something pretty wonderful. We, of course, already knew that, but hearing it from others is very heart warming. Some very proud parents here! We had fun participating in dunking Kris in the dunk-booth, what a good sport she is, the little kids delighted in throwing the ball and sending her plunging under the water. Tomorrow we will explore more of Mystic and Connecticut.