Saturday, Day 17, was bright and pleasant. We had breakfast and then moved Hawkeye to another mooring over on the Grocery Wharf. The site we were moored in actually belonged to one of the tour boats which was out on tour last night. The relative locations of the two moorings are shown on the Google Earth image above.

After moving, we walked to the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and spent the day touring it. We had lunch in the museum sandwich shop. There were a lot of very interesting exhibits in MOSI. We snooped around the locomotive exhibit, the steam engine exhibit, the cotton weaving exhibit and an entire building dedicated to antique airplanes. I managed to lose all the photos I took on the last couple of days in Manchester - including those at the MOSI - so no more pictures in the travelogue. The MOSI was presenting a Body Works Exhibit, one of those much publicized and maligned plasticized human body dissection exhibits, but we unsure whether we wanted to see it or not. Anyway, after a full day at the MOSI, we came back to Hawkeye, then went up to Dukes Lock 92 Pub for an early evening meal. Duke's has a paté and cheese bar and we all tried different patés and cheeses and really enjoyed the meal. We left, determined to come back later for more of their great food, went back to Hawkeye and settled in for the night.

Woke up on Sunday, Day 18, to find it raining. It effectively rained all day so we didn't get out much at all. We had breakfast, lunch and dinner on board and just enjoyed relaxing and socializing. Dot and I were flying out on Tuesday, so we spent some time packing and getting things ready to travel.