Mystic Seaport with Caroline

Well, its time to talk about my great weekend with Caroline at Mystic Seaport. Caroline flew in on Thursday afternoon and I picked her up at the airport. On Friday after work Caroline and I went on a hike on one of the local trails that I see on my bike. We hiked for about an hour and most it was along a river, so it was a very nice hike. We also ran across a lot of these white flowers, I took a picture of a butterfly on one as seen below. We also watched the movie "Mystic Pizza" Friday so we could get an idea of what we were going to see on Saturday.



Saturday morning we started to make our way down to Mystic Seaport. After stopping by the hotel to check it we headed down to the town to get lunch at Mystic Pizza. The town of Mystic was very nice with lots of little shops, and the pizza was great. We then continued to look around the town until dinner time.

For dinner we ended up going to a great place called Go Fish. We wanted to get lobster, and this place looked really cool with some hip decorations and a catchey name. We both had a chowder for appatizer, which came with some good bread and bean dip. We then ordered our 1.5 lb lobsters, and man were they good. And this year as we are 21 we decided to get some wine, we got a bottle of Savignon Blanc. I don't usually like wine all that much, but it tasted great with the meal. Overall it was an excellent meal, and we felt pretty cool getting lobster and a bottle of wine!



Sunday was time to head over to the Mystic Aquarium and Mystic Seaport, which is an historic seaport. The morning was overcast, so we decided to head over to the aquarium first. It was a nice place, with the main attractions being Beluga Whales and a whole collection of seals. Both of which were pretty cool, and below you can see one of the seals that seemed to find us interesting too!

At the aquarium there was also a bird exhibit, which contained over 250 birds. You get a stick with some food on it and you could go up to birds and let them hop onto your stick and they would eat. As you can see Caroline was a pro and all the birds loved her!

Myself on the other hand, I was pretty scared of all the birds, and I didn't really want to get to involved with them.


The seaport was pretty interesting as it had a bunch of full size whaling ships as well as lots of old town stuff. Below you can see the main attraction, which is one of the last real whaling ships left.

Overall it was a great trip and it was really nice to spend time with Caroline before see ships out to Italy. Which reminds me, on the top of the page I have a link to her blog, so get ready for her adventures, which should start on Monday or Tuesday!