Whales CTY Summer Session 3 Day 4

Entry for 7-24-08
Happy Birthday to Hannah!
This post was written by James and Emmanuel:

Mystic Seaport
We began the day early in order to make it through the turntable bridge in the Mystic river, which only opens every hour. When we arrived at the town of Mystic we docked at the expansive seaport museum along with the Unicorn (a slightly larger vessel that focuses on sails training and women's empowerment) against us. After docking, we performed our daily cleaning duties and then began to explore the museum (which is really more like a little seaside village).
Some of the things we saw included a demonstration on cargo handling aboard the last remaining wooden whaling ship in existence (the Charles W. Morgan), a planetarium show about celestial navigation, and a live explanation about how exactly a whale hunt went. Also, we had been given a scavenger hunt and in order to find the answers we had to go to all the exhibits and learn about them, or you could do it the easier way and just ask someone who worked there (which was cheating, but we did it anyways). I supposed we learned something either way. After we had filled in all the answers we headed over to the gift shop where we stuffed ourselves with fudge (which was very good).
One of my favorite exhibits was the Charles W. Morgan . There were many events on the ship, my favorite was the "dog watch", which was what the sailors called the free time they had while on board. During "dog watch" they would usually sing shanties, play instruments, and do crafts.
After the museum closed we walked back to the Lady Maryland and ate dinner. After dinner the Unicorn's crew challenged us to a sea shanty sing off, during which each crew got the opportunity to sing four sea shanty's to each other. After that epic battle, they introduced us to the sport of "lime jousting."A fame where you have to balance a lime on a spoon and with another spoon try to knock the other person's lime off. All in all it was an exciting day throughout which we learned many new and, in the case of lime jousting, useful things.