We left around 11:00 yesterday morning to go to Rockport. There are a bunch of small shops there. We all got $5 Red Sox shirts for Sunday's game. We stopped for lunch at a bagel shop and then went to the whale watch in Gloucester. We got on the boat about 1:45. The first hour of the whale watch was just going out into the ocean where the whales are. We finally saw a whale shoot water in the air so the boat started going after it. Every time it surfaced our boat would try to get closer. After watching that whale surface several times and dive a few times, we went to another spot where whales had been sighted. Eventually we saw a mother whale with her calf. We watched them for a while. Whales don't stay at the surface to watch. They only surface every few minutes in different spots. We were still able to get fairly close though. The fog got very bad after a while and it seemed like we could only see a hundred feet in front of us. We went to one last spot and saw two more whales. By that time it was so windy and cold that a lot of us went in the boat where the tables were.
On the way out there several of us talked to this old guy from New York that probably had a conversation with every person on the boat by the end of the trip. Of course baseball was brought up and he talked about the great New York and Boston rivalry. He was an obsessive Yankees fan. He said that Luis Gonzalez' "girly hit" won the 2001 World Series for us. I told him that a girly hit was still good enough to beat the Yankees in the World Series. It was pretty funny. We were all cold and worn out on the way back so we fell asleep on some benches in the boat. The whale watch was pretty amazing though! We went to a restaurant called Joes for dinner. We all split desserts. Then we went to Shawes to get disposable cameras.
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