Alex Day at Milton Point

After leaving the Meeting House  - and Alex having rung its bell - we came across the Milton Point firehouse.   There was a firefighter there, washing the trucks and engines.  Alex and I took a walk around to look at the engines. They had a pump, a tower ladder and even an emergency services vehicle.  The attraction, though, was outside.  They had a naval anchor, dated 1942 from Norfolk, standing outside. Alex loved seeing it and talking about it.  He asked me to read the date on it (I suppose he was recalling that it was there from the anchor in Harbor Island Park) and asked me what sort of ship it had been on.  I said I didn't know that, but that it had been made in Virginia, where Grandpa McCann had first been stationed after getting out of Boot Camp.   Alex started to call it "Grandpa McCann's anchor".

Then, we came upon a deli I'd often seen while traveling to and from Playland. It was called "The Corner Store" and it was a fancy, boutique deli with all sorts of goodies.  Alex had a chocolate cupcake, made up like a spider's web for Halloween. 

The deli was just off the corner of Oakland Beach Avenue, which is where the 76 bus stops.  Amazingly, we had taken just an hour to do our tour of Milton Point.  The very next bus was due at that stop about 10 minutes after we arrived.  It took some convincing to get Alex to agree to go on the bus.  He wanted to go back to Rye City center and thought that we were taking a bus away from that.  We were, but it also turns around.  I had to get Alex to believe it before he'd agree to get on.

In the meantime, we had a "Who's bigger" contest while sitting on a garden curb waiting for the bus. I'm pretty sure I won, even though Alex was sure he did.

I promised Alex that if we got to Rye City center early enough, that we could stop in the store he had hoped we'd stop in: Shoes N' More.  (It has a castle to climb).  Unfortunately, the bus arrived at Theodore Fremd Avenue only 10 minutes before a 61 was due.  We needed to get on that 61 if we'd hoped to meet Kate at 4:30 at the Avalon.  I promised him instead that we would shop on Mamaroneck Avenue.

Despite his not being all that happy about that, this was turning out to be a great Alex Day.