Now we all know I'm a pretty good cook and I can come up with ways to cook on the boat without an oven. So yesterday morning I tired to make muffins on top of the stove. My girlfriend Nancy had given me this cool mix where all I had to do was add water, shake and cook, sounds easy enough. So I do as instructed only I put it in a iron skillet , just like I do cornbread and lets just say what a mess... First it's not a hearty bread like cornbread, I burnt it big time and it wouldn't flip. So what you have is a pan of muffin pieces some of them burnt and stuck to the sides. We ate them by smaching them together and having a larger piece, tasted good ( I took out the burnt pieces) just didn't look to good. My mother would have loved us eating with our hands, not really...Next time I will use less batter and maybe it will work. I know your thinking can't wait till she cooks for me...We arrived at Plymouth, they had a town mooring that you could us to go check out the town. If you wanted to stay the night , they would move you and you could pay later. So we hooked up to the ball ,took a short dingy ride to the dock and we headed to town.The first thing we see at the dingy dock is a little priate boat, really cute but small. Then we headed over to the Mayflower. It had 104 passenagers and 36 crew plus live stock, it wasn't that big of boat it must of stunk in there. They landed in December 1620 and didn't want to get there feet wet so they got ashore by stepping on Plymouth Rock. This is not a big rock....It was cut in half and moved three times, then they put it back because of its historial value, and bulit a moneument around it. Not at all what I thought it would be... I was hoping for a huge rock..Across the street was a statue of a Indian, TheGreat Sachem of the Wampanoag, which is where we found out that Native American's don't celebrate Thanksgiving, as they see it as and end to their nation. It's a day of prayer and morning.. Next we hit the oldest standing court house in the country, that was cool it is now a free museum. Next the old stone chruch, then the graveyard and a walk to the oldest homes in town from the 1600's. Its hard to believe that a wood house could stand that long but it did. Must be some hard wood... Next stop was a Jenny Grist Mill that ground corn and behind it was a place to stop for a drink. While we were there Elaine and Barry ( Dick and Rita's family from New Bedford that we visited on the way north) called us,we were so surprised. Elaine had read that we were going to be in Plymouth and it wasn't far from where they were going to be today so they came to find us, how cool is that...They joined us and we couldn't have been more pleased to see them.. We chatted a while then we headed over to the Momument to the Forefathers, this was awesome.. It was huge, it was built by the same sulptor that built the Statue of Liberty. Elaine and Barry have been here before and had never send it.Elaine played with Bella while we were there.. After that we ran around to a couple of other statues that I wanted to see, Elaine danced in the street with the music from the concert in the park, so I joined her. then we went for dinner. We left Bella in the car and stopped to eat at a little place right on the dock. We ordered at a walk up window inside, and they called your number, the food was great and Elaine insited that they pay for it. Dinner was fun and we had a lovely time.Thanks again. It was time for us to get Bella and for them to head home , that's when we found out Bella had gotten sick in their car... How aweful for Bella and the car.. I felt so bad, its the second time Bella had a accident with Elaine's things, first her house then her car..Elaine and Barry were great about it.. I cleaned it up the best I could and all I could say was how very sorry I was.. We said our goodbye's and we so glad they had come by and surpised us.. Back on the boat we forgot to pay the dockmaster for the mooring, so we called him. Carl told him he had a couple of drinks but he would drive the dingy back over to pay.  The  dockmaster said not to  get in the dingy and not to worry about it, they would wave the fee and have a safe trip home... How wonderful was that... Plymouth let us have a free mooring ball for the night.. That was a perfect ending to a great day...It's a sailors life for me...