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.
And Miss Aubrey is getting big. And more adorable all the time.
Last weekend we went to the zoo. Fun times. My nephews are sadly going through a phase where they don't like to look at the camera when you ask them to, so the good pictures were few and far between. 
So that's my new sock. To be worked on on vacation. I started it the other night and have only worked on it during my lunch breaks. The pattern is 
I also started this new lace stole. Because I'm crazy. It's 
And this is a 
Miss Aubrey mostly slept, it's what she does best, but I did manage to get a shot of the whites of her eyes.
Ellie had to work that night but she supplied the superb, non-WW approved cake.
Mom's gonna be so mad I featured her on the blog - but she's in Jersey and can't hurt me at the moment. Anyway, when you're the birthday girl, you have to get at least one solo shot. The nephews continued in their particular brand on "good photo ops while eating cake" - I think we might have to trademark that for the two of them, wonder if Aubrey will join in the fun when she's old enough...
Having picked strawberries the day before, we had some with the fruit salad, and I introduced my nephews to them. Funny to me that they had never tried them before, but my SIL doesn't like them (craziness). Elliott isn't too big on trying new things, so we'll try again next year. But Mason... wow, I think he ate 2 bowlfuls (is that a word?). 
He couldn't get enough. So I guess he's got a bit of the Colton blood in him. And speaking of strawberries, here's the shortcake that I made that Monday:
It was fantastic, if I do say so myself. Mmmm, want some now. 
Outside the Shoe before the ceremony.
The sock as it was before I started knitting it in the Shoe.
Wow, June. Wow. About a month ago I couldn't wait for this week - now, not so much. It's my last week at school - physicals were last night. So the next 3 days are all paperwork, cleaning, and moving. I found out yesterday that my basketball training room has to be empty by Friday. Ha. I would love to know exactly where they expect me to put everything. As it is, it's crazy enough putting everything into the inner office to attempt to stem theft over the summer. 
So that was my view last Saturday afternoon. My baseball team warming up for the Regional semis. A game that was originally scheduled for Thursday, but was rained out. Twice. What a game. 12 innings. Lost. Walk off homerun. Heartbreak. Due to the length, and use of all 3 decent pitchers, it probably would have been really hard to beat the team (that won 12-0 in 6 innings) we would have had to face on Sunday, but you never know.
Pretty darn cute if you ask me. I did get a little tired of working on it because it was all blanket all week, but so glad to have it done. Maddie also likes it alot.
It's one of her new favorite sleeping spots. Never mind that there are 4 other blankets draped over various pieces of furniture in that same room.
I got this hat done as well. It's not my favorite, but it'll do. Kinda hard to see the pattern in that pic, sorry about that.
That's the progress on the fronts of the sweater. It seems to be going slower than the back did - I think because the initial burn to knit this has flickered out. Still love it - just don't have that crazy urge to work on it 24/7.
Because I finished up all the HP stuff early - I let myself spin this weekend. As you can see by the very full bobbins. I'm going to work on plying it up this weekend. It's gonna take forever. But it'll be very pretty laceweight - my first ever handspun lace weight! Gotta get myself worked up for it.
That's the start of the second sock. And the curse is continuing. The book knocked over a can of soda, I used the wrong needles to start and had to rip and re-start. Very cursed socks. Hopefully it gets better from here on out.