Day 11 - Monday, August 14, 2006

We ate at the buffet breakfast at the Holiday Inn. Today was our day to drive out to Cape Cod. Our original plan was to spend the day on the cape, spend the night between the cape and Boston, go to Boston on Tuesday, and back to Cape Cod to spend the night at Jack and Natalie Schuster’s house which is in the middle of Cape Cod, in Brewster. They had their grandchildren there, and didn’t think they had room until Tuesday night.
Jack is a ham radio friend of Bill’s. They had known each other for years, and always got together at the Dayton ham radio convention (Hamvention). When Jack found out we were going to go back and forth from the Cape, he invited us to spend tonight with him instead.

First, we went to the Cape Code visitor’s center and watched a movie about the flora and fauna of the cape.
Bill wanted to visit the Sandwich, MA glass museum, as he had an ancestor who used to work there. We enjoyed a nice movie about the history of the glass factory, and a young woman who did a demonstration of glass blowing.
We drove out to the Schuster’s house. They took us to an outside restaurant overlooking Sesuit Harbor. I wanted to take a sunset picture on the cape, so they drove us to an interesting beach which has a view to the West. It was pretty cloudy, so the pictures aren’t very dramatic, but we enjoyed taking a walk on the sand beach. On this beach, at low tide, the water recedes so that you can walk out two miles into the wet sand.
We went back to the Schuster’s and talked before going to bed.