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Day 3

We headed south today and started out at Plymouth Rock. Mary Jean was very disappointed to find that it is really just a big boulder. The portico it is house under is much more to look at than the actual rock. We walked over to the Mayflower II but we didn't go inside. Ron and Mary Jean wanted to go to Plimouth Plantation (nope I didn't spell it wrong that's how it's spelled) which is a living history plantation where everyone lives like it's 1620. Kent and I weren't very interested in seeing that so we dropped them off and managed to find the one winery in the area. It was a cranberry winery and they had cranberry fields all around it. The cranberries there had not been harvested yet even though it is harvest season. I took a picture but you couldn't see the berries very well. We tried to find some of the bogs being flooded so we could watch the harvest but we didn't see any. We saw big fields of cranberries though. After we picked up Ron and Mary Jean we stopped for lunch the headed down to Cape Cod. It was an absolutely beautiful day for driving down the beach. It was 70 degrees out and just so nice! We just spent most of the day wandering around the Cape then headed back to the hotel.

Greetings from Cape Cod!

Day 4

Today was our last day in Lexington and our last night in this super cushy bed. We had decided to leave the most local attractions until the last day. We started at the Minuteman National Park. I took this picture of the leaves there. The leaves are just starting to change and they are beautiful. We watched a short presentation on the beginning of the Revolutionary War which was actually quite interesting then we moved on into Concord to see all the sights of the literary greats. We started at Nathaniel Hawthorne's home and we took a tour which was a little on the boring side. Then we went on to the Old North Bridge. From there we took Ron and Mary Jean back to Orchard House, Louisa May Alcott's home and where she wrote Little Women. As I've said before, I'm cheap. Kent and I didn't want to pay the $9 for each of us to get in to the house so we let them go and we searched out a place to buy a sandwich for lunch. After lunch we went to Sleepy Hollow Cemetary and the "Author's Ridge" where Thoreau, Alcott, Emerson and others are buried. We headed on to Walden Pond but I think everyone else in the entire state had decided it was a great day to go to Walden Pond so we just took a good look and drove on by. I didn't even get a picture. We started to go north to Maine. We had to stop at both the New Hampshire and Maine welcome centers which seemed to be only about 10 miles apart. Ron and Mary Jean were so engrossed with all of the literature from New Hampshire that the missed most of the sights going into Maine. In fact they didn't even know we were in Maine and couldn't figure out why we were stopping again so soon. We found our hotel, ate dinner, and decided to head down to the beach. It was dark but the moon was very close to full so it was beautiful. We got a little cold and Kent apparently didn't want to have to snuggle up anymore so we headed back to the hotel (which is nowhere near is swanky as the last place).