Sleeping Giant

This was a morning of frustration. I'm beginning to realize that I can't read maps while the car is moving, even if I'm not the one driving.

We decided to visit Sleeping Giant State Park this morning, taking the scenic route. After multiple wrong turns and my complete inability to read a map and watch for signs, we finally arrived at the fortunately still sleeping giant. A 1 1/2 mile hike up a well maintained trail brought us to the tower. We're not sure why the tower is there, (is it military, or whimsy, or ancient castle from a long forgotten society?) but it provides a 360 degree view of the New Haven area. We were a week or two early for the prime fall foliage, but the slightly turned leaves were unreal in the bright sunlight. We'll have to return.

After a little pb&j picnic we headed back down, while competing to find the largest acorn, which Jeremy did despite not even looking.

Our next stop of the day was relatively disappointing. The Eli Whitney museum had very little information about Eli Whitney. It did have a fun marble wall where you could push buttons to move marbles up a screw and then let them drom through bells and ramps, which I'm sure Alex enjoyed more than reading information about cotton gins, anyway.


After another confused map reading session, we arrived at the Savin Rock Museum just down the beach from our apartement. The museum gives the history of the Savin Rock amusement park that has dissapered without a trace from the beach we spend our days on. It's hard to imagine Fun Houses, a carousel, restauraunts, and rollercoasters on our peaceful beach.

To round out our day, we spent the evening building sand castles on our favourite spot of sand as the sun set.