This morning, I had to do some food truck stuff with my friend in Malden, so I headed to there, passing by Charles Park in Cambridge
and a few churches in Everett.
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| St. Anthony's Parish, 38 Oakes Street |
After I was done with my food truck business dealings, it was time to head to the town of Reading to have a try at doing trapeze acts at
TSNY Beantown, a trapeze school located within the
Jordan's Furniture complex there, passing through the town of Wakefield along the way.
While waiting for the flying trapeze class to start, I walked around inside the mall, taking pictures of the interesting statues within, most made out of jellybeans!!
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Boston Red Sox Green Monster
eating a NY Yankee |
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| Mock State House |
There's also a musical fountain here as well.
Finally, some pictures of the trapeze structure I was to swing from.
I have to say that the trapeze class was an extremely fun experience, with me doing knee hangs, hands-free, but nerve wracking at the same time as I had to learn to look straight down at the ground below me and not freak out. I also positioned my legs wrongly at times, and felt like I would slip out of the bar at any moment.
I even strained my back a little in the end, trying to do a back flip. Oh well, guess I'm not as agile as the little girl who was wowing us with all her tricks on the trapeze bar today.
After the class, I headed off toward my next destination: lunch at the
American BBQ in the town of Beverly, passing through the towns of Lynnfield
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| Bell |
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| Memorial |
Town Common,
Main Street and Summer Street
and Danvers.
This place is actually one of the better looking BBQ places I have been to so far, filled with pig paraphernalia, although
the food was not as good as at
Blue Ribbon BBQ in Arlington.
I got the choice of 3 BBQ Meats, getting the Texas Smoked Sausage, Pulled Pork and Beef Brisket, along with Baked beans and dirty rice on the side. I also got a Lime Rickey Drink and two desserts, namely the Apple Crisp and the Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce.
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| Lime Rickey |
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| Apple Crisp |
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| Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce |
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| 3 BBQ Meats |
After my lunch, I proceeded to sightsee in Beverly for the rest of the day. First, I headed nearby to walk around Shoe Pond on the corner of Mckay Street and Balch Street, with Sheehy Park on its southwestern corner.
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Sheehy Park,
McKay Street near Sturtevant Street |
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| Shoe Pond |
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| Birds on Shoe Pond |
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| Shoe Pond in Ice |
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| Shoe Pond Dam |
After Shoe Pond, it was on to other places in Beverly before heading to the Hospital Point Lighthouse area in town, with the hope that all the snow had melted in the beach area.
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| The Gar Hall, 8 Dane Street |
Bass River
from Bridge Street Bridge,
Bridge Street near Margin Street
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Bass River Lodge 141,
10 Charnock Street |
Beverly Town Common,
~32 Essex Street
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| US-1 Huey Helicopter |
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| MIG 15 UTI |
The lighthouse is actually privately owned, but the view from the end of Bayview Road beside it wasn't too bad at all, with the town of Salem to the southwest.
From here, I headed to
Rice Beach at the end of Ober Street nearby after parking in the lot for
Lynch Park, which looked a little like a private beach, but with nice views as well.
Finally, I headed back to Lynch Park, and explored the beautiful park, which has an Italian garden as well as awesome views of Salem Sound, until the sun went down.
Italian Garden
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| The beach areas |
From here, I decided to call it a day for sightseeing, and headed to
Organic Garden Cafe, a vegetarian restaurant in town, for dinner.
Amazingly, the place was full of people, and I should have made a reservation in the first place. I ended up waiting around for a bit before I could get a table. With my groupon, I decided to get the Chuck Berry Smoothie (Strawberries, blueberries, banana, date, and agave) for a drink, the OG Sliders (Four mini–portobello burgers, tomato, and sprouts on a sunflower–flax onion rye bread with cashew cheese) and Quesadilla (‘Jack cheez’, avocado, and pico de gallo in a golden flax 'n corn ‘tortilla’ with dipping hot sauce) appetizers, and the Nut Butter ‘Squash’ Ravioli (Heated raviolis in red beet ‘shells’ with rosemary walnuts, and cashew alfredo) for my main dish.
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| Quesadilla |
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| OG Sliders |
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| Nut Butter Squash Ravioli |
At this point, an old man who had difficulty walking on a walking stick came into the restaurant and tried to sit at a nearby table, but the waitress came to tell him that the table was reserved. I decided to invite him over to my table, and even gave him some of my food, which I was having a little trouble finishing. At the end of my really tasty meal, which I always get when I go to vegetarian restaurants, I had a new friend, who is now perhaps my oldest Facebook friend. He definitely made my dinner much more interesting as well.
