What We did on Wednesday

On Wednesday, we made an unplanned stop at an outdoor history museum called Mystic Seaport.  Here's what Wikipedia says about it:

Mystic Seaport or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea, in Mystic, Connecticut, is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of the crafts and fabric of an entire 19th-century seafaring village. It consists of more than 60 original historic buildings, most of them rare commercial structures moved to the 37-acre (0.15 km2) site and meticulously restored.

It was a beautiful day on the bay!  :)

The Old Church

An old house

The old one-room school house!

The General Store, or, as we were told, the old-fashioned 7-Eleven.

The Cooperage.  (barrel making)

An old kitchen!

A printing shop.

Lets play I Spy.  I spy a Starbucks.  And an iPhone.

There are many ships here.

All these ships need lots of rope.  All these spools make only one thick rope!

There are little boats too!

The miniature Mystic Seaport.

We bought lunch and fudge at the museum.

Fish and chips.

44 or 45 flavors of fudge!  (Can't remember which.)  We only tried three.

After Mystic, we drove on through the rest of Connecticut, through a skinny portion of New York and New Jersey and stopped for the night in Delaware.  We started the day in Rhode Island.  The states are smaller here then in the west.  Here is an interesting fact:  Whatcom county (2,120 sq mi), our county in Washington State is almost twice the size of the whole state of Rhode Island (1,214 sq mi).