Day 2 - Mystic

One of the challenges of such a long road trip is how to fit in exercise and also eat fairly sensibly when you have around 50 consecutive meals being eaten in restaurants.

So we started the day as we mean to go on (check back in next week!). I went for a run then Matt the gym before breakfast. Which is pretty easy when Joshua is awake from 5.15am. After breakfast after a quick swim for he boys we headed to Mystic Aquarium.

The aquarium is something I've heard recommended many times. It's only a two hour drive from our house but was always too far for a day trip and we never made a weekend of it. Thus why we decided to stop off on our trip.

It was a great aquarium, trumped the one in New York and also the one in Boston. A big space, lots of outside exhibits andfelt like the animals had a good amount of space (relatively for captivity).

After the Aquarium we drove to downtown Mystic. We headed to a recommended ice cream shop on the drawbridge. Walked along the river. Went in a few shops and went to S&P oysters for dinner which was situated on the river. We managed to see the drawbridge go up four times which added excitement for the boys.

It was a great day. The sun shone, the boys had fun and we actually enjoyed being relaxed with no move stress.

Photos below...

The whales

Selfie with a sleepy toddler. Who of course didn't sleep.

Matt entertaining the boys by trying to kiss a fish.

Turtle fascination

Joshua heard an employee say 'you can touch the crabs' and was straight in before we could say anything 

Sharks

Ice cream (sssshhhh don't tell Joshua who finally fell asleep in the car). I had a shop special 'Mystic chocolate' which had choc chunks, brownie pieces, fudge and m&ms in. It was delicious!

The view while eating our ice cream.

Ethan loved the local fire boat (this is his 'thumbs up' pose)

The drawbridge