Day 12 - Woods Hole, Provincetown

Our bedroom has a couple of high windows which don't have curtains and we think this is why Julian is waking early. Thankfully today he played in his cot until 6:10am, so it was semi-bareable :)  It was already raining outside, as forecast, so we didn't hurry to get out of bed.

At breakfast Julian noticed Steve had a banana and wanted it.  This is not unusual, however this time instead of screwing his nose up in disgust when he tried to bite it, he ate some.  He ended up eating 1/2 the banana.  He has never liked banana, so maybe this is a turning point!  Not too much as we don't want to block him up again.

We were very pleased to have been to Martha's Vineyard yesterday which meant today we could do the drive up to Provincetown in the rain. First we stopped in Falmouth (5km up the road) Vistors Centre and asked what wet weather activities could be had in the area.  The lady suggested taking the scenic route to Chatham before heading up the highway to Provincetown.  We did as advised and there was nothing scenic about the drive, unless you consider abandoned motels and restaurants scenic - maybe "scenic" means something different over here?

Chatham was a nice little town and it has a lighthouse which we went to look at. Julian and I stayed in the car as it was REALLY windy and spitting with rain.  These are Steve's photos:

The Chatham Lighthouse

Looking out to the Atlantic ocean - it looks blurry because of the bad weather.

We only stayed in Chatham for lunch - Clam Chowder and sandwiches - before heading north up the main road to Provincetown.  Provincetown is the place where the Pilgrims first landed in mainland USA. They only stayed a month before moving onto Plymouth (just south of Boston).  It was a small town which reminded me a lot of Akaroa but the houses were all the same and the roads narrower.  There was no parking in town, so we drove up the rise to the Pilgrims monument.

 It is something like 100m tall.

 

This is looking down the stairwell 

Julian looking up at the monument.  It was so windy up there that he was getting blown backwards!  He thought it was great fun, most of the time.

We walked up the many stairs and there was a spectacular view when we got to the top.

 

Unfortunately because we took the "scenic" route, we didn't have much time to spend in Provincetown.  It looked very pretty and had many art galleries to explore.  It would have been magnificent in better weather.

So we drove back to Woods Hole to give Julian a late-ish dinner, which he wasn't interested in.  Katrina and Greg kindly went out in the rain to get Indian take-out for our dinner.  Julian had a spoonful of rice and butter chicken and then gave up eating for the night.

Tomorrow is meant to be nicer weather, so we are going to walk down our street to the beach in the morning with Katrina and Greg.  Then once they have left for Montreal, we will go to Falmouth for a proper look around.  Julian deserves a day out of carseats and strollers!