More Sandwich Glassing

We're rapidly marching towards summer with the first 6 months of the year just about gone.  We're dog sitting Shadow every week for 2 days which we love.  She's such a goofy little diva.

 Sagan's still not digging our house guest much, but they've made somewhat of a truce.

More visits from the local bun.

One late Sunday afternoon we headed over to Pocasset to see if it would be worth trying to dig for quahogs but it was way too cold.

Took a drive into Sandwich a few times and veered off so I could get some pics.

We had a super low tide a week or so ago, and Russell took me 'Sandwich glassing' in the exposed marshes.  The mud was way too sticky and deep to venture very far and I wasn't prepared with extra footwear or towels in the car, so just had to stick to the part closest to land.

If I had waders or shoes I didn't care about, I would love to go out in that and see if there's any glass.

I had some great finds though.

The amber, yellow and white/red are the best.

This isn't Sandwich glass but I liked them so I snagged them.  The green bottle bottom is Canada Dry gingerale but I don't know how old it is.  I haven't seen pop in glass bottles in many years.  The white thing is some kind of old fashioned wire insulator.

Teal, green and black.

Another day we swung down to the marina and canal.  

Day Trip to Mohegan Sun

We treated my MIL to a trip down to Connecticut so the Mohegan Sun Casino.  I'd been wanting to see it too and check out the buffet.  It's about a 2 hour ride from our house to Uncasville.  CT was one of the first states to allow Native Americans to have casinos on their reservations.

 That's the hotel.

I was surprised I didn't get in trouble for taking pictures inside because you aren't allowed to take pics in casinos.  However, I only shot pics outside of the gaming area and no one bugged me.  I know that the floor is under constant surveillance and I'm glad they cut me a break, esp. since I didn't once attempt a pic of the slot machines, which was hard to do because they are so sparkly and colourful.

 Northeast native themed art throughout the building.  It's beautiful. 

Shells and beach glass embedded into the floors.

Cool light fixtures at Seasons Buffet.  The food was amazing and there was a huge selection.  I only had the tiniest portions of things cause there was so much to try! 

This was prettier in person.  This hanging in the Swarovski crystal store and was very colourful.

 Full disclosure:  What I really wanted to see at Mohegan was this incredible Chihuly sculpture. 

I couldn't get enough of this.  

Also waterfalls.  This is in the two story shopping mall part.  The stores are just a bit too spendy for me!

Another cool ceiling

Waterfall behind one of the bars.

Alas, Lady Luck didn't smile upon us, but we had a great time playing the slots and chowing down at the buffet, and making memories!

Mashpee

Mashpee is the last town that I had left to photograph on the Cape.  I'd been putting it off cause there really isn't anything to see, to be honest, and I researched the heck out of it too.  It's always been mostly residential and a just a small, somewhat run down town that you had to pass through to get to Falmouth.  No one really stopped in Mashpee, 'back in the day'.  Parts of it are quite nice though....all the waterfront properties in New Seabury are exclusive.   In the late 80s, an upscale shopping and movie theatre complex was built called Mashpee Commons and it's still there, but it's not terribly picturesque.  Now there are quite a few strip malls along Rte 28, which is the main road to Falmouth.  Mashpee is the traditional home of the Wampanoag Tribe and still has a large native population.  

First place we went was Popponesset Cove, a little salt water inlet off the south side of the Cape.

Next, we stopped at the Indian Meeting House which also has a graveyard.

I loved this arrowhead stone.

Some of the stones go waaayyyy back, and the names on them are the same names you hear in town now.  

We call Zachary's "The Mashpee Center of the Performing Arts", but it's really Cape Cod's only strip club.  This particular bit of town is really the armpit of the area.  

Then Russell took me over to one of the beaches at Mashpee Wakeby Lake, which straddles the border of Sandwich and Mashpee.  That's looking towards Sandwich's side.

The "country store" which is just a convenience store.  Nothing terribly quaint and it's not filled with country type items or crafts.  I think what qualifies it as a country store is that it has a wooden floor.

This is also Mashpee Wakeby, but at the boat ramp

We finished off our brief tour with lunch at Dino's Sports Bar.  They have pretty consistently good food and Russell likes to relax with some Keno.  

That's the last of the Cape Cod towns I had left to photograph.  One more bucket list item done.