Last year at Memorial Day Jody and I went to Boston for an extended weekend and decided to take a drive out to Cape Cod for a day. It was then that we discovered how beautiful "The Cape" is. Unfortunately, we haven't been back since, as it's about a 5 hour drive from New Jersey. Thankfully, Jody's brother, Jeremy, called us up and told us that he, Meredith, and Brooke (their little one) were going to be up in Boston visiting some of Meredith's family for a while and wanted to come down to New Jersey for a day. We decided that we could just meet up in Cape Cod and enjoy some beach time together as a family. So we booked a room at the same inn where Jeremy and his family were staying, packed up the car and headed up to Cape Cod.
We actually decided to stay our first night in Providence, Rhode Island as I've heard from several people that it's a really pretty city. Unfortunately, because we got in after dark we didn't get to see much. However, the next morning the hotel concierge recommended we try a local place called Julian's for brunch. It didn't look like much from the outside but the eggs benedict and strawberry milk were one of the best breakfasts I've had in a long long time...
Our first stop was in Provincetown, which is farthest point you can drive to on the Cape. I'd heard a lot of stories about the residents of Provincetown but we decided to check it out for ourselves. I can now tell you that the stories we heard were spot on. What I mean by the "residents" is, shall we say, a group of men and women who enjoy the company of people of the same gender. I'll leave it at that. Needless to say, though, we ate lunch and left Provincetown as quickly as possible. We decided to head to a local beach near the Inn and just hung out for a while.
Later that evening we found a great drive-in theater across the street from the Inn where we were staying and decided that was pretty much the only chance we'd have to see a movie until Gemma gets a little older. We took our camp chairs and hit the double feature of "Brave" and "Spider Man". Gemma did great and slept through the both movies.
This is one of my favorite pics. Gemma is such a little angel...
The next day we met up with Jeremy and Meredith in Woods Hole, which is on the Southwest corner of Cape Cod. It was a really cool little town. We toured around a bit and hit a couple of local museums. Afterward we drove back to the East side of the Cape and had Fish & Chips at a local seafood joint. To wrap up the day we headed down to the beach on the Bay side. Despite the mosquitos that nearly ate us alive, the water was really warm and was shallow enough that we could take Gemma out a bit and dip her toes in. She loved the beach and loved dipping her toes in the water. I'm starting to think this little girl is going to grow up and be a swimmer!
We got there right in time to enjoy the beautiful sunset...
This was actually a private stretch of beach reserved for the owners of these homes. What an incredible sunset view these lucky folks have!
Gemma had such a blast! And she loved her little swimming suit that mommy got her...
This was her favorite part of the whole trip...
