Today we took a ferry out to Nantucket to spend the day with Leah's friend Michelle!
We started the day with a heavy rainstorm right before breakfast as we took our suitcases to the car. After breakfast, the rain had pretty much stopped, so we felt silly for running into the rain blindly. We next drove to Cape Cod and quickly found parking and ran to the ferry before it left without us. The ferry ride lasted about two hours and we had a nice time drinking coffee and playing a "Draw a map of the U.S. and name the states" game, followed by Leah trying to think of all of the state capitals (we still need to grade that one). Then we docked at Nantucket and found Michelle waiting for us to lead us to her living quarters for the summer. We stayed there for a bit and got a quick tour of the telescope she is working with, and she explained the project she is working on, then we went back to the house to change for the beach.
I was really excited about the beach. The water was warm, but not hot like it was in Myrtle Beach, it was nice. There was a long sand bar that went almost a quarter of a mile out into the water, but Michelle and I stayed on the sand bar the whole time we swam in the water. While we were there, we got to examine Atlantic Ocean sea life when I spotted a large sea snail and found dismembered crabs.
After the sky started to get too cloudy to justify staying at the beach, we walked back to the house. On the way I tripped and fell, scraping my leg up a bit. I'm fine, but I just wanted to show that Leah is not the only clumsy one on our trip. My knees are scratched, and they bled a bit, but I can walk fine, and everything has stopped bleeding for now.
When we got back to the house, we stayed there for the rest of the afternoon catching up with Michelle, because according to her, there isn't much to do on the island that is affordable. One of her roommates made us dinner, then we walked over to a juice bar to get ice cream, then we got back on the ferry and found our hotel that we had made reservations for the night before. Now it is bed time, Leah is climbing into bed, and I am ready to do the same.
Good night! <3 Al
p.s. Tomorrow we explore Cape Cod and Plymouth
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