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  • Cape Cod or Bust, Garth (not his real name) fuh-bid!

    Provincetown Sage

    Yeah, I was thinking about stocking up…BIGTIME!

    I nearly tripped over this basket of sage sticks while in Provincetown this weekend (I know, like in Massachusetts, read on!) and swore I could hear fate hollering:  heeeeeeeeere's your sign.

    If you've been reading my blog for any length of time (most especially, this past summer) then you already know:  the #FUBAR runs deep in these here parts.

    Cape Cod or Bust

    We're gonna need a bigger boat!

    Which is why I was a little hesitant about the last-minute, "Hey I got an idea, how about you
    and the kids getaway for the weekend"    , road trip courtesy of my husband Garth (not
    his real name) in a last ditch-effort to give them SOMETHING vacation-ish to write about in school.

    Aaaaaand, since they are off from school on Monday and Tuesday for Rosh Hashanah (Shanah Tovah, to all my Jewish friends!) while my husband, on the other hand, is not (dammit!) the timing was sort of good-ish.

    On the other, other hand:  it is, at the very least, a 5+hour car drive through 5 states of traffic (NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, enough said!) ALL BY MYSELF.

    Moving onto the foot:  then again, he knows that my friends find his random acts of spontaneity to be very, very sexy…me, too!

    Welcome Note

    Warmest and bestest welcome…EVUH!!!

    So, I texted my friend Sue (a.k.a. As Cape Cod Turns) that night, to let her know that we'd be in town the next night (or, since I had to wait for the kids to get home from school and we'd probably get in around midnight, the day after that) so as to give her plenty of time to…you know…go out, make plans, stock up on some extra sage sticks, or something.

    The funny thing is she then told her parents, who then offered up their downstairs for us to stay and so on…and so on…and…well…yes, they are SUPER AWESOME like that.

    Provincetown Fun

    Provincetown fun, way fun-ner with friends!

    We've been going to the Cape since fuh-evuh…as far as the kids are concerned…so they made a list of their favorite memories and it was my job to squeeze 2 weeks of vacation…into 3 days…besides driving them…ummmmm…EVERYWHERE!…and back again, I mean.

    [rolls up sleeves]

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  • Our Pilgrimage into Provincetown

    Provincetown Harbor
    My favorite view of Provincetown, MA.

    We're baaaa-aaaack!  What an AWESOME trip we had, too.  I'm STILL sorting through piles of dirty laundry, as we speak.  So, for your viewing pleasure, some highlights of the last days of our summer road trip through New England.

    Provincetown Harbor Boardwalk
    Day 7 – Provincetown is located way at the tip of Cape Cod, or "upper cape" as the locals call it.The girls were all like, "Wow, Provincetown has a boardwalk!"  Though, we couldn't find anyone selling any funnel cakes, or knew what the heck a "Zeppole" is (i.e. fried dough in Jersey) but, we did get a chance to eat at George's Pizza and, well, it really is the best pizza in P-town!

     

    Provincetown Art
    Day 7 – The weather was awesome (albeit, a bit on the chilly side) and Provincetown is filled with warm, bright, shiny and very colorful people!

     

    Provincetown - Blueberry-Lane Pottery
    Day 7 – We got a chance to meet fabulously talented artists like Paul Wisotzky, owner of Blueberry Lane Pottery and teacher at Truro Center for the Arts, who bravely choose to give live demonstrations of their work and patiently answer about eleventy-hundred questions (daily) like, "Don't your hands get awfully dry," and "What's hand lotion?"

     

    Into the Provincetown tower 
    Day 7 – Provincetown is also home to the Pilgrim Monument (built in 1910) to commemorate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ first landing in Provincetown in November 1620. Here the Pilgrims spent 5 weeks exploring the tip of Cape Cod (before sailing to Plymouth) and drew up and signed the Mayflower Compact.

     

    Provincetown tower kids
    Day 7 – The Pilgrim Tower is 250 feet high and almost 100 years old.  Heather and I opted out of the climb, about halfway up, due to some serious issues with having to climb 250 foot high 100 year-old towers and not realizing it until, you know, halfway up.

    Provincetown Tower Streets
    Day 7 – If you're planning a family vacation to Cape Cod (like these people, who were obviously on "vacation mode" and refused get out of my shot) I highly recommend a visit to Provincetown!  It's like one big fat street fair and history lesson all wrapped up in one!

    Cape Cod Lighthouse at Hightower
    Day 7 – The Cape Cod Lighthouse at Hightower is only a stone's throw away from Provincetown and open for a quick 20 minute tour, although we were ALL pretty much toured-out, by this point in the day.

    Cape Cod Lighthouse Views
    Day 7 – The kids were happy to be able stretch their legs (before getting back into the car, AGAIN!) and, well, just breath in the fresh salty air heavily infused with the scent of cranberry and rose hips — someone needs to figure out how to bottle the stuff, seriously!

    Cape Cod National Seashore dune grass
    Day 7 – This vacation was all about relaxing and being able to partake in quiet little moments (like, chasing sea gulls and getting lost in all the dune grass) while we re-learn to enjoy each others company.  So, yeah, our trip to the Cape Cod National Seashore has paid off BIG TIME!

     

    Next on tap:  Views from a Battleship Wedding!

    Greetings from Cape Cod, MA!

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    [3/17/10:  Edited to Add – submitting this story to the travel site, Uptake.com]