Mary took John out for breakfast then we took an historic Cape May trolley ride. We read, lounged around, had pizza for dinner-a good day.
Monday John went to the airport to see a B-17. This is like the helicopter at the beginning of each MASH episode. It's so small!
The B-17, which is based at the Willow Run Airport in Michigan:
We plan to leave Tuesday, so John washes and vacuums Carol and Rich's car and puts it in their garage. He calls TowboatUS to make sure there is nothing new on the intracoastal since the other boats traveled it a week ago. Guess what? A bridge we have to pass under is broken and won't lift. We have enough clearance to fit under at low tide, but know that we should only travel the New Jersey Intracoastal at high tide because it is so shallow. How ironic that the 4 loopers who were with us in Cape May all planned to travel outside (in the ocean) and had to take at least part of the intracoastal because of the wind and waves and we, who had planned all along to take the ICW, are now having to consider going outside. TowboatUS assures us that we'll be fine, just stay in the channel. The bottom here is mud, not the unforgiving rock of the Great Lakes, we have not yet been hard aground on this trip, so decide to follow our original plan.
The New Jersey ICW:
It's a pretty ride and the B-17 flies over:
After 2 small we're-hitting-bottom hesitations and a short time plowing mud when a fishing boat's wake pushes us out of the channel, we approach Atlantic City:
The worse thing about today's ride has been the greenheads (NJ horseflies). We had to fire up the generator twice to vacuum up bodies before we landed and then had to spot clean the carpet. We broke our flyswatter!
Mary Frances at Senator Frank S. Farley State Marina, Atlantic City, New Jersey:
We register in the marina office, this marina is part of the Golden Nugget Casino complex, and ask where the closest restaurant is (it was a long day). They tell us right upstairs so we take the elevator up and step out in front of the hostess stand at the Chart House Restaurant. Guess we should have taken a minute to think "Chart House" and "Golden Nugget" and changed our clothes, but they let us in anyway and the food is fantastic.
Wednesday we hop on the "jitney bus" for a ride to the boardwalk. John was last here when he was in middle school and things have changed drastically since casino gambling was approved in1976. Caesar's Palace:
The wicker push chairs are celebrating their 125th anniversary:
The New Jersey Korean War Memorial is sobering and thought-provoking:
This is more the boardwalk John remembers:
From class (The Chart House) last night to kitsch today, we decide to have lunch at a Rainforest Cafe. John has never been in one, Mary last ate at the one at the Mall of America when she and her brother Jack took the kids there quite a few years ago. John is not too afraid of the jungle animals and thunderstorms.
Steel Pier:
It's fun to see so many of the Monopoly game (which was developed here) names:
This whole store is devoted to candy!
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