This past week we took a little trip to Mystic, CT at the invitation of fellow innkeepers, Greg and Mary Lou Peck, who own The Adams House.
Greg and Mary Lou are such wonderful and gracious hosts. We felt right at home the minute we stepped through the front door. I just loved our room!
We then had time to head into town to stroll the main street before dinner. We crossed the drawbridge in the center of town to find parking and then strolled the town.
This is part of the workings of the bridge. It is drawn up every hour at about 15 minutes after the hour.
We had dinner at the Captain Daniel Packer Inne, one of the restaurants highly recommended by Mary Lou. I had the petite filet mignon and Mark had the lobster stuffed with crab. We both thoroughly enjoyed the meal and the whole dining experience.
The next day was our one full day in Mystic. After a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs with cheese baked on top of halfed croissant rolls, we headed into Stonington, a small town next to Mystic. The Town of Stonington is situated in the southeastern corner of Connecticut, bordering Westerly, Rhode Island to the east, Long Island Sound to the south, Groton, Ledyard, and North Stonington to the west and north. Stonington is the only Connecticut town facing the Atlantic Ocean.
This is a wrought iron fence around the front of one a house at the start of our walk through the town.
On a historical note, Stonington made a name for itself during the War of 1812, when in 1814 just two canons were used to successfully hold off four British ships.
Along our walk through Stonington, we visited the Old Lighthouse Museum.
This is the view from in the lighthouse tower.
. . and the stairs down from the tower!
Next on the agenda was the Mystic Seaport: The Museum of American and the Sea. It includes three major components for visitors: a re-created 19th-century coastal village with historic ships, a working preservation shipyard, and formal exhibit galleries.
This is the interior of the Charles Morgan, the last of the wooden whaling ships. The restoration project is set up so that visitors can tour certain sections of the work in progress, while the ship builders are actually working on other sections. This is the upper deck of the ship.
This is another ship available to tour was the Joseph Conrad, a square rigged ship that has been used as a training vessel.
A horse-drawn cart was available for tours around the entire facility (not on board the ships, of course!)
This was the captains room of the Benjamin F Packard, which had been a 244-foot square-rigged sailing ship. The captain's room and parlor were rescued just prior to the ship being scuttled (sent down to the bottom of the sea) and reconstructed in this fine exhibit. The richness and detail of the wood furnishings and paneling was amazing.
For dinner that night we went to S & P Oyster Company.
While waiting for our table, we had drinks and appetizers on the outside wall - a wall the height of bar stools! It was a marvelous spot to just enjoy the view.
I guess we ate the dinner too quickly because we forgot to take pictures, but it was delicious! I especially remember with fondness the decadent flourless chocolate cake that I had for dessert.
