Vacation Day #7

Vacation 2008 Day #7

Day #7 proved to be the most adventurous. We started off on the beach behind our resort hunting hermit crabs with the kids which they enjoyed immensely. After prying them away from their new clawed friends we made our way to the Cape Cod Railroad for a scenic train ride throughout Cape Cod. It was a dreary day that day which was a bit of a bummer. The train ride was ok initially but ended up not so great. You see, they take you down the tracks and narrate the entire ride about the cranberry bogs, small towns along the Cape, some history, and the fresh water ponds which was fine. But once they reach the opposite end of the Cape they put the train in reverse and go back the same way you came. Not too exciting. Especially when the train decides to overheat every couple of miles. We would be chugging along at a decent pace for 2 or 3 minutes and slowly the train would come to a stop. We would sit a while and start chugging away again. The 1.5 hour train ride turned into about a 3.5 hour train ride which got a bit boring. We thought we might have to get out and walk to get there faster. The craziest thing on the train was that there was this man sitting behind us that was a spitting image of Ryan's father and this was really creeping me out. If you know Walt you have to check out the pics. I have labelled them for you. I guess its true that all of us have a twin out there somewhere. After the train ride we decided to grab a bite to eat quickly at Wendy's and made our way to the Cape Cod Potato Chip Factory. I know it sounds pretty lame but it was free and the kids thought it was pretty cool. It was only like a 15 minute walk through tour but they had some yummy free chips at the end. Let me tell you by day #7 we were all about free stuff! We then made our way back to Falmouth to Old Silver Beach which was supposed to have the best sunset however, as always we got rained out yet again. We did hunt for shells and the water was beautiful. We got to see a pretty impressive storm blow in (VERY QUICKLY I might add) and made it back to our car just in time for the downpour to hit. The clouds were unbelievably cool but we were very sad that we didn't get to experience a sunset on the beach. Oh well, maybe next time.