Today isn’t a great day for Coco. She’s been feeling a bit under the weather the past couple days and we took her in to the vet today which is her least favorite place. We still have a couple follow up tests to do, but the vet has narrowed down to 2 likely suspects and we’ll treat for both. Hopefully we can get the other tests completed quickly and effortlessly and get some answers to make sure we’re on the right path for healing.

After dinner, we went to Buzzards Bay Park. This park sits at the corner of the bay where the Cape Cod Canal begins. Many people bring their chairs and sit near the canal to watch watercraft pass and wait for the train bridge to operate. The vertical lift train bridge is an engineering marvel. It spans over 500 feet and lowers in about 2.5 minutes, allowing trains to pass safely over the 480 foot expanse of water below. The train bridge and the canal are managed by the Corps of Engineers.

We are staying in the town of Bourne, Massachusetts the next 2 weeks. This area is considered the Gateway to Cape Cod . Tonight we went to dinner along the bay at a family-owned, local seafood joint. It was delicious! We sat outside along a small marina and got to see two passenger trains pass by on the tracks; one was a dinner train and the other was a commuter train from Boston to the Cape. That was a neat experience to wave at the people on the trains as they passed!