We were hoping to go to the S. family's favorite beach the next day but it as raining cats and dogs and only 60* out. So, after playing all morning and eating lunch, Maryann took us to Lowell Mills for the afternoon. To me it was like learning about my family history because my paternal grandmother had worked in a Woolrich Mill in PA before she was married. I felt a bit closer to the wonderful woman who had died of cancer when I was the age N is now. It is something else to hear those machine going and then realize that they only have about 1/6th of the machines running that would have been running all the time back when the factory was in business. Wowzers.
Tuesday was another cold and cloudy day, but the rain was pretty much gone so we headed to Plymouth after a big breakfast Ryan made and we dropped him off at the subway stop to fly out for a business trip. Plimoth Plantation is a recreation of what the 17th century English village would have looked like and a Wampanoag area complete with actors and actresses in period dress portraying real individuals who came over on the Mayflower/people who were actually Native American. The braver part of our group even trained with the militia, which was quite entertaining. I love it when history is brought to life! And as a bonus, D learned so much he was able to finish off his Beat of the Drum belt loop and M finished her pioneer try it. We stayed so long we ended up finding a place to eat in Plymouth to eat (Sam Diego's) and haven't loved a Mexican restaurant that much since we went to Cafe Coyote's in 2015. As a bonus, by the time were were done eating we got to go walk near the Atlantic Ocean as the sun set. It was so beautiful I felt it nourished my soul -- the pictures just can't do it justice. As we were walking around we saw the famous Plymouth Rock to boot.
Soon, it as our last day. The time went by so fast! The children played while Hubby and I packed. Then, while Sariah & K went to S's Activity Days pool party, the rest of us went to Kimball Farm and enjoyed some great food and delicious ice cream. I must say, their kiwi strawberry sorbet was the best dairy free ice cream I've ever had -- and I'm a huge fan of Ben & Jerry's DF Cherry Garcia so it's really something. Then it was time to say good bye and drive Ryan's mini van to the airport and leave it for him when he got back from CA. Security was easy and all was well once our flight, which had been delayed over an hour, finally took off. When we got to DIA the children were so tired and K was so upset our visit to the S. family was over there was quite a bit of drama in the parking lot but we made it home in one piece after all. Just goes to show how loved we felt and how much fun we had while we were away! A huge thank you to the S. family for giving us the idea to go visit and being so wonderful to us!!!
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