We traveled down to Mystic CT on Saturday July 18th for our first CAWLI Cousin's reunion!
We met up with four other families who were with us in China. It was great to see some of the other families that we traveled with and spend a day with them at Harkness Memorial Park in Waterford CT. It was a hot one but everyone had a blast and the kids got along great! Faith seemed to really enjoy seeing Olivia again.
The fun event of the day was wagon trains! John Anderew (in the blue wagon) loved pulling everyone and anyone in the wagons! Faith got a lot of free rides!
The park was awesome! Lot's of quiet roads going through it, right on the Long Island sound (no swimming) so we could wade into the waters. It was an awesome day!
We stayed in Mystic that night and had an interesting stay at the Ramada Mystic. The sign we were welcomed with should have been a tip that not all was in order there.
We got there and before we went over to Mary and Jay and Olivia's house we had to check in and clean up and stuff. Allison was trying to catch the weather and as I walked by the TV it made an interesting noise and went off. Ian, Adam and myself were just going to go to the pool when Ian yelled "The TV is SMOKING". It was indeed! I unplugged it and Allison called room service. Long story short, Ian, Adam and I went to the pool anyway and when we got back we had to switch rooms. Then off to Mary, Jay's and Olivia's and for dinner we had:
That's Mystic Pizza from the movie. Much like Cheers in Boston looks nothing like Cheers from TV, Mystic Pizza is very different from the movie. Julia Roberts doesn't even work there.
We stayed the night at hotel "almost burned down" and went to Mass at St. Patrick's church in Mystic. A nice little church that had Central Air so that was a bonus! After that we spent the day at a playground and then an afternoon stroll around Mystic. We got to see the drawbridge in action so that was cool as well!
Special thanks to Jay and Mary for organizing this, we hope to make it a yearly thing now!
All the photo's can be seen here: http://picasaweb.google.com/kpgingras/2010CAWLICousin#
