This is the fifth summer that Eddie and I have travelled up to Cape Cod for a “summer holiday”. Each summer we have gone to Chatham to watch their baseball team play. (The Cape has a summer league for college students. The players live with families, work jobs in the towns where they play, and some get picked up by major league teams because of their summer performances on the Cape.) Here is an action shot from the game:
7-7-2010: Sunrise
Our bed and breakfast did not have air conditioning (something we didn’t think to ask about when we were booking it). Our room had no breeze even with multiple windows on multiple walls open. (It was right across the street from the beach and was facing the wrong way to catch that breeze.) Needless to say, we were miserable. The room was an oven. We resorted to sleeping with wet towels on us to make it possible to catch just a few hours of sleep.
Once the sun started coming up, we were both awake again and decided to escape the heat with a walk on the beach. It was about 5:30am and was empty and beautiful, just about the only “plus” to being awake that early. We went for a long walk and I snapped some nice pictures of the sunrise (below) and some of the many gorgeous hydrangea flowers that dotted the road as we walked back to the bed and breakfast.
Note: We ended up leaving the Bed and Breakfast to find lodging with AC. It was a bummer to lose some money but completely worth it to be able to actually relax, sleep and enjoy our well-earned vacation.
7-8-2010: Ca-Ching, Ca-Ching
Happy Fourth Anniversary to us!
We enjoyed a very laid back day that consisted of a trip to a flea market in the parking lot of the Drive-In theater, reading, pizza for lunch, and a trip to Brewster for a baseball game (not our usual location or teams but still enjoyable). We were planning on going to an acapella concert in Brewster for the evening but found out tickets weren’t free so we opted to head back towards our motel via the Orleans baseball game. We then grabbed some snacks from the local grocery store and headed back to watch the big Lebron announcement. All in all, it was a very nice and relaxing day, which we both needed and enjoyed.
The photo for today is from the Brewster General Store. It was a really neat old fashioned general store with all sorts of items as well as a lot of authentic old pieces, like this cash register.
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