Day trip to Ipswich and Essex

Ipswich and Essex are two cities near Boston. They can be accessed by taking the commuter rail (train) for about an hour. During the summer, there are buses bringing people from the commuter rail to the tourists destinations in the two cities.

When we reached the Ipswich station, there is already a bus waiting for us. There are many tourists like us and they all told the driver that they are going to Crane beach. Before coming, we did not plan on going to Crane beach as we just went to Revere Beach last week. But seeing how EVERYONE on the bus execpt us is heading for the beach, we decided to go talk a look as well.

We arrived at Crane beach at about 11a.m. and it is really clean and nice. There are already many people there. Although we are not dressed appropriate for the beach, we decided to walk on the sand and play with the waters anyway.

Many people are like us playing with the waters and making sand castles. The most impressive castle is the one below:

Seeing how beautiful the sand castles are, we decided to make one too. Hmm.. except that we have no tool to aid in the construction. Hence we gave up trying to make a castle. Below is our lame attempt at making a sand Mian Mian.

Next, we went to the Russell Orchard for fruit picking. But before we embarked on our fruit picking, we stopped by the Orchard tour and grab some apple cider pop first. wooo.... so.... nice....

There are many different fruits in the orchard. These two weeks is the season for blue berry and Raspberry picking.
To prevent people from picking fruits and not paying, the Orchard authorities decided to put a guard at the front gate. Except ... that....

..... the guard is sleeping very sounding.

There are also many animals at the Orchard. We said hello to the duck family, little pig and their friends.

After that we went to Essex for lunch at Woodman's and take a look around the city. The city is famous for its shipbuilding history and the large number of antiques shop around. Lf finds the shipbuilding stuff pretty interesting although by this time of the day, I was too tired already.