Sooth Seekers

We spent two weeks with Dad in Franklin, MA helping with projects around the house. After much deliberation, he decided now was the time to tear out the carpeting in the living room that had been installed in the late 1980's. Bill and I spent a day and a half on this project and another day in the Home Depot carpet department helping him select carpeting and make arrangements to have it installed. Several more days went into installing grab bars and cleaning out closets. Bill made dad some homemade Italian bread and another birthday cake and we took dad to his favorite Chinese Buffet. The time just went way too fast!

We knew we would have to move on if we were ever to get to a warm climate before the snow fell. Out next stop was Saddlebrook Campground in Northwood, NH. This park was one of those warm fuzzy, family friendly parks that we won't soon forget. The owners just exuded hospitality and went out of there way to suggest things for us to do. One of our laments was that we never did get to the Faneuil Hall Market place in Boston while we were in Massachusetts. But my clever husband figured out we were only an hours train ride away. The train ride was fun and no surprise to find the marketplace was crowded! We wandered around the market place from food vendor to food vendor trying to decide what we would eat and finally settled on some New England clam chowder.

Part of the thrill of Boston is watching the street entertainers and there was no lack of them today. However, it was the break dancers that seem to hold the attention of the crowd the best and we thought they were actually pretty talented. They also did a fine job collecting money from the crowd as a reward for their efforts.

We were delighted to find that the Tall Ships were in Boston Harbor and decided to wander down to the harbor to get a good look at them. We discovered the best way to see them was to take a ferry over to Spectacle Island providing us with a view of the ships and a chance to see this island we didn't even know existed before today. The ferry ride was only an hour so we would have plenty of time before we had to take the train back to our campground in NH.