Flying Horses.

We've been a couple times to Martha's Vineyard via the Island Queen ferry from Falmouth. The first time we took the bus tour around the island and then walked around Oak Bluffs; the second time spent the whole day just exploring the marina, the gingerbread cottages, and the shops, eating in funky restaurants and bakeries, and riding one of the oldest merry-go-rounds in the United States, moved to Oak Bluffs from Coney Island in 1884.

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Sandi truly enjoyed playing with the other kids, grabbing at the brass ring, and shooting for the Guiness "Consecutive Merry-Go-Round Rides"  record. As you might guess, it's usually a five-year-old who has to be dragged kicking and screaming off the horses, so it caused quite a stir when the tantrum thrower was so clearly an adult. I calmed her down with ice cream.

Now that I think back on it, maybe it was me who had the tantrum: