Scratched That Part of Connecticut Off the Bucket List...Next Time, Trusting What I Know with Mystic, No Matter What the Town Websites Show

We saw the Children's museum. Definitely a lot of boats and a nice artsy-town feel. There was a dinosaur museum nearby, too, so it seemed like the perfect outing for the day. 41 miles. That's it (but in CT traffic). I think as we pulled into Niantic we realized, "Oh, this is not the place from the online photos." We joked that they hired a really good photographer, and (phew) they misled with that children's museum. If we went again I'd bring a vacuum, bleach wipes, and Windex. Most of the kid stuff was dilapidated. Glad we gave them money, but you'd think they'd invest the cost back into the actual museum. 

We walked through town and found an ice cream parlor and park. Malia liked the slide sand Kanyea is always up for a photo-shoot. We then decided to get lunch (at around 4 pm) and debated on where to go. We took a chance and it was okay. The highlight were the crab cakes...absolutely delicious, but I'd unlikely ever return there again. Never quite sure how you can be a coastal town and have such a horrible selection of fish (and why fry it all?). 

Although we anticipated Malia would sleep on the way there and back...nope. She was too excited to be awake.

All in all, however, it was good to spend a day with Kanya, Courtney, and Malia.

And today the sun comes out.