Sunday
17th October
We left Plymouth and headed for Hyannis,
our next stop in Massachusetts. We stopped at the JFK memorial
for a
quick photo opportunity, missed the inscriptions which apparently were
right under my nose. I need to look down more often. Back
on the bus
to drive to the transportation centre to park, which was a no go.
There was a train convention in town and the car park was full.
Tom
did a fantastic job of reversing out of the car park and back into the
traffic. We ended up parking in a bank car park, well, why not,
banks
don't open on Sundays so we won't be upsetting anyone. We had 2
hours
to wander around Hyannis including getting some lunch. Hyannis
has
only 1 main street, called????? Main St of course. There
were plenty
of places to get lunch but I opted for a tuna and avocado wrap, and
what a huge wrap it was. As I was wandering down Main St I passed
a
lot of people dressed in costume, there was a Halloween Parade starting
at 12 in the local park. Took some photo's for costume
ideas. I took
my wrap down to the harbour, sat on a park bench and managed to get
through half of it. Save the rest for later. Walking back
up to Main
Street I popped into a souvenir shop, I really don't neet to tell you
what for do I.
We met back at the bus at 1 to drive back down to the harbour for a 1
hour cruise, to see the Kennedy compound. There were some very
impressive houses here, and the one we thought would be the Kennedy
house wasn't the right one. We could just see the roof in the
trees behind the big white house. As we left Hyannis, Tom told us
he had a pet name for MJ and played her dedication song for us -
SpongeBob Squarepants. :-) This was followed by Willie
Nelson's 'On the road again' then Village People's 'YMCA'. MJ
asked us if we were going to do the actions to this one - easy.