Picking up where we left off...
It rained, alot, Thursday night. Bad storms. Rain/drizzle/mist continued on Friday. The Jersey folk were off to... somewhere I can't remember the name of right now. It had a carousel, and they met up with some of Rachel's family. Ellie and I headed off in a random direction to sight-see and maybe shop a little. We ended up driving in the direction of Sandwich, and happened upon a yarn shop! Out of nowhere, had no previous knowledge of it's existence. So we stopped. And shopped. This is what I walked out with:
Some Cascade Heritage handpainted sock yarn, and some fantastic Plymouth Mushishi, a yarn that I had never seen before. Yay fun vacation yarn!Anyway, we continued driving and driving and driving. Crossed the bridge to Cape Cod a couple of times and decided to stop and eat. Found the cutest little place, The Bee Hive Tavern. It was so the quaint little inn that I pictured New England to have, with the low beamed ceilings and cutesy decorative touches. I could totally see George Washington stopping there for some ale, although I did not notice a sign saying that he had. Then we stopped at the cute shops we had seen when originally working our way into Sandwich. Found a quirky little shop that had some really cool glow in the dark hand-blown glass ornaments, but we didn't buy any. Eventually we made our way back to the house.
It being Friday, it was Date Night. And so the children were left in the hands of the Aunts. We opted to go say good-bye to the beach, in order to get more beach pictures, as you've seen we hadn't had many to that point. So we went to the beach that saw our first night, but didn't visit because of the sign posted about a "Residents Only" sticker thingy. Psht. It was after prime beach hours, who was going to care? (You'd think that was foreshadowing wouldn't you? But it's not, we only got a snobby look from the teen aged guy on his cell in the car next to us when we parked)
This beach had some great views (photos taken by Ellie, on my camera):
And we managed to get a couple of okay shots with people in them before we had to leave.
Not because the we weren't allowed to be there, but because the smell was so icky. And there was about 8 ft of seaweed washed up along the water line from the bad storms the night before. My nephew was unimpressed, and none of us really care for seaweed, so we opted to go back to our beach.There was still plenty of seaweed at our beach, but with a bigger beach to begin with, there wasn't as much, and it didn't have the smell of dead fish - always a bonus when near the ocean. So we tried t0 get some good shots of the kids, and did, kinda.
C4 seems to think he needs to hold onto his sister for every picture. Not sure why - probably has something to do with her being quick to run off, or that he had to do it so often when she was more of a baby and immobile. Anyway, they're still cute as all get out. But C4 didn't really want a photo shoot, he was more interested in tag, so we didn't have long, and the light was fading fast. So we squeezed in the obligatory photo "Feet in Sand".
Sarah isn't quite old enough to understand the concept yet but I think that makes me love that picture more. Then C4 got some tag, while Sarah dragged the writing stick around.
And then we shot some more photos, not all of which were exciting enough to make the blog, so here's one of the good ones.
And then I climbed up onto the life guard chair (kids, please don't try this at home, or without adult supervision).
And then we took my most favorite picture of the whole trip.
Seriously, could it get any better than that? We then said bye-bye to the beach, and headed into town for some ice cream. Where we promptly crashed Date Night (of all the ice cream joints, they decided to go to that one at the same time we did!). The kids were then unwilling to leave with the Aunts, (why would they when Mom and Dad are right there?) so we really ruined Date Night, and from there all headed home.Saturday dawned early for packing. The Jersey folks were on the road early. Ellie and I were a little bit later, doing the last of the cleaning and laundry. And wouldn't you know it, but it was a most perfect beach day! Sunny and 80. And we were leaving town. Boo. But first we went back to Main Street for a last little souvenir shopping. Picture frames, t-shirts, car decals, and some seriously good pb cups. Sadly the coffee shop that we had been wanting to go to all week was closed. It was just that kind of vacation.
So we climbed into the car and headed west. And I think that's enough for tonight. One more vacation post to go. And then a really big catch-up-on-EVERYTHING-else-that-has-happened-since-so-I-had-better-hurry-up-and-post-it-so-that-it-doesn't-get-too-long-and-I-fall-behind. Again.
