Guys Day IV: Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Ships
Each year all of the Sculimbrene boys get together on Veteran's Day weekend for Guys' Day. This year we had a theme--transportation.
Let's see what we have. First, P-Pa arrived via plane and left via train. So there are two modes done. But there is more.
On Saturday P-Pa came with Dad and Isaac to swim lessons and though it was not really transportation, so to speak, Isaac showed P-Pa his aquatic skills. We then took P-Pa to the grocery store where Isaac demonstrated the proper technique for driving the up high car cart. Again not really transportation.
Sunday, however, allowed us to check off quite a few boxes. We went to the local general aviation airport, the Fitchburg Airport, for breakfast (they have a small diner under the traffic control tower). While there we saw quite a few airplanes take off and land, so we check those boxes, and we saw...ready for it...a helicopter land, take off, and hover. It was pretty amazing. Here are P-Pa and Isaac watching the comings and goings of planes and helicopters:
The next day, the official Guys' Day, we went to the USS Constitution. It is a classic tourist stop in Boston and something for, whatever reason, I had not gone to see. The boat is quite impressive, over two hundred years old, and she is in beautiful shape. We got to go inside and down below. We saw HUGE cannons and massive wood beams. We saw a spider web of rigging. Overall, all three dudes were really, really impressed.
After that we stopped by Tasty Burger in Harvard Square, which was delicious, and then we had our final stop on the Transportation Tour for Guys' Day IV: the Corvette Mecca that is MacMulkin Chevy in Nashua. It was two full floors of nothing but Corvettes, C6s and a ton of C7s. P-Pa was in heaven and Isaac was there with him, jumping in probably a quarter million dollars worth of Corvette. It was a GREAT Guys' Day and ended with a costumed lightsaber duel.
Here are the buddies again:
Let's see what we have. First, P-Pa arrived via plane and left via train. So there are two modes done. But there is more.
On Saturday P-Pa came with Dad and Isaac to swim lessons and though it was not really transportation, so to speak, Isaac showed P-Pa his aquatic skills. We then took P-Pa to the grocery store where Isaac demonstrated the proper technique for driving the up high car cart. Again not really transportation.
Sunday, however, allowed us to check off quite a few boxes. We went to the local general aviation airport, the Fitchburg Airport, for breakfast (they have a small diner under the traffic control tower). While there we saw quite a few airplanes take off and land, so we check those boxes, and we saw...ready for it...a helicopter land, take off, and hover. It was pretty amazing. Here are P-Pa and Isaac watching the comings and goings of planes and helicopters:
The next day, the official Guys' Day, we went to the USS Constitution. It is a classic tourist stop in Boston and something for, whatever reason, I had not gone to see. The boat is quite impressive, over two hundred years old, and she is in beautiful shape. We got to go inside and down below. We saw HUGE cannons and massive wood beams. We saw a spider web of rigging. Overall, all three dudes were really, really impressed.
After that we stopped by Tasty Burger in Harvard Square, which was delicious, and then we had our final stop on the Transportation Tour for Guys' Day IV: the Corvette Mecca that is MacMulkin Chevy in Nashua. It was two full floors of nothing but Corvettes, C6s and a ton of C7s. P-Pa was in heaven and Isaac was there with him, jumping in probably a quarter million dollars worth of Corvette. It was a GREAT Guys' Day and ended with a costumed lightsaber duel.
Here are the buddies again: