Day 6
Today, we docked at Mystic Seaport, where we became part of the museum!!! There we saw a demonstration on the world's last wooden whaling boat, Charles W. Morgan. She is 170 years old. We were surprised to learn that her head was merely a slide which led out of the boat EW! After lunch, we dazed off while looking at stars at the planetarium. Then, we played on the playground and entertained some little kids by climbing on mini boats far too small for us.
We also saw an interactive play in which Devon played the mother, and I (Amanda) played a greenhand, surprising the actors and audience with a correct spelling of antidisestablishmentarianism.
After the play, we were free to roam around Mystic Seaport Museum, where we ended up buying WAY too much fudge (which we gave to Devon) and learned about dogwatches. We heard some music during the dogwatch played on a banjo and whale bones. We then toured the Charles W. Morgan and saw the blubber room.
When we came back to the Lady Maryland, we finally got to talk on our phones, which we enjoyed very much, and we questioned Owen about his age. He is only 19!!!!!!! We found this very shocking. Also, we made scrimshaw, replacing ivory with Ivory soap. We created scrimshaw with drawings of our time on the Lady Maryland.
To end the day, we mustered in the gazebo in the museum. We still have yet to finish that fudge...
Written by Amanda (a.k.a Lemonjello) and Karen (a.k.a Oranjello)
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