Mystic, Connecticut, that is…the home of the famous Mystic Pizza restaurant (pictured here). Yes, the same one that had a movie made about it…an early role for Julia Roberts.
No, we’re not going there to primarily visit this restaurant. We had wanted to go there to visit the Mystic Seaport for a long time now, but never got around to it.
But then I saw on Facebook that the Shipyard Brewing Company is sponsoring a beer tasting and talk, featuring author Gregg Smith, who wrote a book called Beer in America: The Early Years – 1587 – 1840.  I actually already have this book, Mike bought it for me a couple of years ago at the bookstore at Old Sturbridge Village…I just never got around to reading it. Well, I will now, and bring it to Mystic to get the author to sign it for me.
Mike is in favor of going, so I booked a hotel room and bought tickets to the event. It’s one week from today.
Not sure if I should research restaurants and stuff before we leave, or hope that the free WiFi that our hotel advertised actually works, and do it from there. I have one of those little netbooks, and it works just fine in hotels where the WiFi works as advertised. But some places advertise it, and it doesn’t work. I hope the place we are going to is not one of them!
So maybe a little advance research wouldn’t hurt, just in case. And yes, I think we will check out this Mystic Pizza joint…I know it’s a tourist trap, but why not? I’ll try almost anything once!
