Today was what is known as "cheeseball saturday!" There's pretty much an extra large jar of cheeseballs, and we have to finish the entire jar as fast as possible and count how many cheeseballs each of us ate. The record was 285 (in less than 2 hours). After the cheeseballs, we went to the whaling museum in New Bedford, MA. Among the many interesting displays at the museum was a deformed jawbone of a sperm whale, the whale was able to live even with the deformed jaw because sperm whales are capable of emitting sound waves powerful enough to stun their prey. In the museum we completed a scavenger hunt of whaling facts.
After we left the museum we walked around town and visited New Bedford's "Summerfest," enjoying a brief moment of life on land with frozen lemonade. Soon after we left New Bedford, we neared the Cape Cod Canal. There were strong currents and incredibly thick fog, but we made it through. However, right after we made it through the canal, we were ambushed by crew members dressed as "canal police" and made to take part in a "secret" initiation process. We were read a list of our offenses (like smiling too much or manning the helm too well) and then made to eat one of the cook's concotions as "punishment." At the end of the day, we read our historical fiction stories we had written and then went to bed.
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