We awoke to another fine day. After breakfast we decided to go to Hyannis as we had a few chores to do involving going to FedEx Kinko and the post office (the call of the tax man). Hyannis is a busy little town and in the summer I would imagine gets very busy as it is the port for the ferries out to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
One of activities on our list of things to do was visit the Cape Cod Potato Chip (crisps to those of you in England) factory in Hyannis. It is a short self guided tour where you can look onto the factory floor to see the potatoes being sorted, cut and fried before passing onto the packaging department. This operation started with a couple fryers inside a shop producing 200 bags of chips a day and now it is a fully automated operation putting out 350,000 bags each day. The best bit of the tour is the last bit – the factory shop where you can do some tasting from open bags of chips and take away some sample bags.The afternoon was taken up with some time in a local shopping mall where Emily found a pet store where they had some puppies for sale. A couple of the puppies were allowed out of their pens to run around the store and Emily had a great time playing with them, particularly a lively boxer pup.
At the end of the day we went back to the camp site and Emily and Jack were allowed to go down to the lake by our campsite and got a chance to go for a swim to cool down – although the day was not warm and by this time the sun had gone down. Rather them than me!!!
At the end of the day our routine has become to set a camp fire and read some stories. We also occasionally eat smores (Graham biscuits/ cookies, chocolate and marshmellows cooked on the fire - all squidged together)
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