"Pilgrimage" to Plymouth

Sunday,

October eleventh,

in the year of our Lord,

Two thousand aught nine..

our weeks adventures

started to roll out before us... a hearty meal was needed to

get the ball rolling..

so we stopped in at the

Schoolhouse Cafe.

Everyone was filled to the brim...

then on the road to

Plymouth...

Coming around the bend in the road
toward the harbor...
ahead at the docks
you can't miss the sight of the
Mayflower II
(a full scale reproduction of the original..
it was built in Brixham,England and sailed the
Atlantic ocean to her new home in Plymouth in 1957..
just as the original Mayflower did in 1620.
No motors, no chase boats just wind, sails and sailors!

I must apologize ,
for here I will take a short cut and give you a link to Wikepedia
in order to read more about the Mayflower..
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower
Today ,
after a week of adventures, is a day of catch up..
housework, laundry, blogging and rest...

Walking from our parking spot the first
inhabitant of the "Plimouth Park"
we encounter is
William Bradford
first Governor
www.pilgramhall.org/bradfordwilliam.htm


ahhh...
could that be...
Pilgrims?
looking over to the dock...

Some of Mary's pictures,
as the one above and below,
will be helping to tell the story of
how we spent our days...

On board and below decks

Aye, aye, Cap'an!

a few Pilgrim's are aboard ship

to help us understand

what life was like for them

on their voyage

some little girls were fascinated!!

as was I...

I would love to dress up

and pretend to live in another time..
and they get paid for it , too!

Mary, inspects the ship..

crow's nest

As we leave the ship ,

heading back around the bank,

we stop

to take a quick gander at the

"Plymouth Rock"

Above you see what is left of

Plymouth rock...

the tip of a Large granite bolder,

sitting in the harbor..

supposedly used to disembark

the Mayflower..

the story goes that in the year

1776..ish

an attempt was made to move the rock ashore

for easier viewing..

they broke the rock...

then

after many a year of mistreatment by

John Q. Public..

tourist and looky-lou's

chipped pieces off of the rock for

souvenirs..

it was decided to move the rock yet again

this time by a team of twenty oxen

to its resting place in a special building..

where as the rock yet again

felt the harsh treatment

of the movers and once again was broken..

Plymouth rock has been broken,

and broken again,

cemented back together, moved, dropped and broken again...

and stamped with the year 1620 .

At last ,

the rock was moved to its

resting spot where we find it today..

sitting at sea level

in a Roman Doric Portico

so that we might gaze upon it ,yet not touch..

Leaving Plymouth we head north

to New Hampshire...

Supper will be eaten at "Petey's",

an early set alarm will get us up and going in the morning,

heading for the hills we will ride the foliage train

and hunt for covered bridges!

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I will try to post on the blog every couple of days,

in order to catch up

before more adventures take place*

So check back in soon for the next instillation.....

Many, Many, Many pictures were taken...

and a whole lot of laughing was done..

nothing could be more

exciting than having fun filled adventures

with family !

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* more adventures are waiting just around the bend..

Watch out South Carolina

here we come!