Mystic Pizza and Mystic Seaport

This morning we stopped by the Post Office in Westerly, Rhode Island to pick up our mail that we had sent to General Delivery. Then we drove to Mystic to visit the Seaport Museum. Our first stop was at Mystic Pizza to have lunch. This pizza restaurant was made famous in the 1988 movie of the same name - one of the lead actors was Julia Roberts. The walls are covered with memorabilia from the Mystic Pizza movie.

From Mystic Seaport

We ordered the House Special pizza and a couple of Sam Adams on draft. We were not disappointed when our pizza was served. This was one of the best pizzas that we have had - they definitely lived up to their motto - "A Slice of Heaven". We also found out that you can buy frozen Mystic Pizza - I'll have look for it next time I'm grocery shopping.

Our next stop was at Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea.

From Mystic Seaport

After paying the entrance fee and getting a map of Mystic Seaport, we started exploring the recreated 19th-century seafaring village. We went aboard the Charles W. Morgan ( an 1841 wooden whaleship that has outlived all of her kind); we were able to go below deck to see the living quarters. Some of the ships docked at the Village are  National Historic Landmark vessels - the L. A. Dunton, the Sabino (a1908 coal-fired steamboat), the Charles W. Morgan, and the Emma C. Berry (an 1866 sailboat).  We saw the Shipsmith Shop (the only manufactory of ironwork for whaling industry known to have survived from 19th century),  the 1833 Mystic Bank, Spouter Tavern, and the Chandlery. Several of the buildings in the Village have been moved there from other locations to help complete the Village. We saw displays of different ships and figureheads, whaling exhibits, and toured the Preservation Shipyard.

We had a great time today and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.