Friday the 17th, Ellie and I set out. That night we spent in a great hotel in Albany - at a very wonderful exit that had a Christmas Tree Store (we stopped there on the way home, but I'm getting ahead of myself).
Very swanky - and good shampoo to boot. Can't ask for much more. So Saturday was spent on the NY Thruway and the Massachusetts Turnpike (love that the Pike signs have Pilgrim's hats on them, I am still easily amused). And then we arrived at the beach house, in lovely Hyannis.
Just so I don't keep you in suspense, I am not engaged or married to a Kennedy, they were surprisingly elusive. Saturday night, we checked out our first beach, adjacent to the JFK Memorial.
Sunday it was off to the beach. A gorgeous beach day - not too hot, very sunny. Funny thing about Cape Cod - there's almost no surf, which makes for boring beach photos, and bad boogie boarding. Oh well. The kids enjoyed making a sand castle, with an extra large moat.
Miss Sarah is definitely a beach girl - couldn't get enough of the beach. That last picture? If you zoom in, you'll be able to see the Kennedy Compound.Monday brought another gorgeous day, slightly cloudier than Sunday. And even though I got sunburnt on Sunday, I returned to the beach. Good thing too, it was the last beach day we got. Very depressing.
That night we all packed up and went to a Cape Cod league baseball game. The Hyannis Mets vs. the Cotuit somethings. I can't remember what their mascot was, it was something funny, and I'm sure if you check the comments in the next couple of days, my brother will be able to tell you, you know, just in case you really really wanted to know and were unwilling to Google.
The game was fun. The mascot for Hyannis was an osprey - not an eagle. And he was very photogenic.
All that was right in front of me, after I had asked him to strike a pose. However, all this was most distressing to Sarah, who, as many 2 year olds tend to be, was freaked out by the giant fuzzy bird. Everyone had a good time though, even if I don't know if Hyannis eeked out a win or not - we left during the 8th due to bed times and bugs.
Alright, I think that's long enough for this post. Tune in later this week for the exciting continuation, and some knitting related content.
