We were up early and the Johns worked on boat operations and route planning while I did yoga on the dock and then Nancy and I walked up to the charming town of Sea Cliff. When we returned the
boys were fueling up the boat and we set sail through the Long Island Sound for Greenwich, CT. It was a peaceful short cruise and we were greeted cheerfully at the dock. After a
little swabbing of the decks, we all walked in to town for lunch.
Greenwich is a very affluent town of about 60,000 people. On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, jointly purchased the land between the Asamuck and Patommuck brooks, in the area
now known as Old Greenwich, from Wiechquaesqueek Munsees living there for "twentie-five coates.". Not long after, the English joined the Dutch in a dispute with the Native Americans, which
resulted in a massacre at the Indian village of Petuquapaen. A few hundred years later, Greenwich is a crisp and clean town with a long main street full of upscale shops such as Tiffany’s and
Ralph Lauren. We walked the street and stopped for lunch at a well attended sidewalk café called Meli Melo (French - a mixture or mish mash) which served crepes, smoothies, salads and quiche. We
then all did a little shopping and later relaxed on the boat watching ferries cruise quietly by while Nancy made fancy hors d'oeuvres (a bag of condensed popcorn chips) for us to munch on. To end the evening we walked uptown under a beautiful full moon to dine on the patio at Terra, an Italian
restaurant.
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