Beach

Cheo and i had hoped to rent a car and escape the city this weekend. But we failed to think that everyone else without a car would want to take advantage of the good weather and escape too. So no car for us. We ended up packing our bags and wandering off to Haymarket and look for quenepas. No quenepas. :( We did however find a sale on hiking backpacks and each picked one up. Cheo's bookbag at the moment doesn't hold up to the rainstorms and i've been using Juni's backpack from when he was 10. The bag is on its last legs and the zippers don't really work.

So we emptied our bags, rolled them up and stuffed them into the new hikingpacks. Then we headed off to a beach we could reach by train. The train broke down halfway there and we had to take a shuttle bus through the next 5 stops. Awesome.

I hear New England has some scenic beaches, but this isn't one them. There were a lot of people though so we wandered down the beach and away from the crowds. We looked like total bums with our sneakers dangling from our packs and towels strapped to the back. It was a relaxing day though. Cheo wanted to go see the Isle Belle marsh which is a salt water marsh conservatory so we walked a few miles through town till we found it. It looks a lot like the nature walk through Gatorland. Except without the alligators of course. Cheo is still jumpy about lakes/rivers/ponds and not trusting there isn't something lurking underneath (I am as well, but to a lesser degree) so we didn't get too close to the water.