Today was a busy fun day.  After doing several loads of laundry, vacuuming and mopping entire house, washing walls in children's rooms, doing daughter's hair and dropping off some things for my mother...we went to the riverfront to see The Nina.   Its reported to be the most historically accurate replica of a Christopher Columbus ship ever built.  The crew was so nice, answering questions and sharing interesting tidbits of information.

I got to meet Ms. Ellie who is the ship's cook.  She is a 73 year old widow whose son encouraged her to join the crew after her husband died.  We got to chat for a bit and she is so full of life and really is enjoying this season of life.  She told me she absolutely loves being onboard, loves traveling and seeing new places.   She's one of those elderly people that I would love to sit with, hear her stories and pick her brain. 

We were shocked at how small the ship was.  I can't imagine going across an ocean in such a small ship.  If being woozy and feeling like you're going to upchuck are symptoms of seasickness, then I must have had it.  Hubby told me the ship wasn't moving, but later he felt it too, though he and the children were fine. 

They even had the smaller boat on board and told us it was build by the 14yo son on the family that built the Nina.  How cool is that.   Anyway all in all it was a good day.  However, I think the children enjoyed running about the riverfront more than walking and learning about the ship.  They were really hoping for a ride even though we told them the ship would not leave dock.  I suppose they had been secretly calling those things that be not as those they were.

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