Cape Cod

Visiting Cape Cod has been on my bucket list my entire life.  When we moved to Pittsburgh, I really really hoped we could make it work and take a trip.  It was a rough start, but ended up being a fabulous trip with the family.

Day 1: The Drive.
      That word speaks volumes.  It was a drive!  We didn't get out until about 10 hours later than planned due to a scheduling mistake with Bryan's plane coming back from GA.  So we left at 4:30 pm for our 10 hour drive.  2 hours into it, Brooke puked...and puked...and puked.  Then I got a fever.  So we made it a whopping 4 hours and had to pull over at some random hotel for the night.

Day 2: Completing the Drive.  We all felt much better in the morning, but all 3 of my kids woke up with pink eye.  (we are CURSED when it comes to traveling!) We finally got to Plymouth and took our bikes out for a tour of part of the harbor and to see "Plymouth rock" <---It really is just a rock!

 This was Heath's first time sitting w/o his carseat.  His face says it all...

 The Mayflower

 Lame-O Plymouth Rock.  What a joke! Its a rock, with a big fence around it so nobody damages it.  And this might be cool, if it was 'the only' around the premises.  The WHOLE bay is rocky, and this rock isn't any bigger than the rest of them.  Its like someone needed an excuse to spend more government money so they stamped the date in rock and put up a sign so people could spend money on the 'Historical Site'...

 There was an amazing park right on the shore.  The kids were in heaven after a long long ride in the car!

 View from the park of the bay

 Best part of going to Cape Cod?  The Fish! And Lobster!  I ate the best Halibut I have ever tasted!

Day 3: Jamie gets everyone lost and on the wrong part of the "cape".
       Did I mention how big the actual "cape" cod is? I had always pictured this little tiny stretch of land that housed about 200 people.

Sooooo wrong I was!

Its huge.  There are multiple cities and freeways on it.  So when I found a 'bike trail' online that would take us too the beach, I wrongly assumed it was 'the one and only beach' here.  We were WAY down on the southern tip of the cap near the shore that faces "Martha's Vineyard".  It was a 10 mile bike path.  Beautiful, but not what we had pictured.  Here are the "marshy parts"

 And here is what the majority of the trail looked like...

It was too familiar for Bryan's liking.  He felt like we were still in PA.  (I admit, it was a little similar...) I was hoping for a bike path on the shore.  The path's saving grace was that it did end at a beach...

 Which wasn't really on the "Ocean"...it was on the Sound side.  You can see Martha's Vineyard across the way.  It turns out, our kids really like the beach when its not on the ocean! 

 They loved the sand and didn't have to be afraid of big waves!  It was an AWESOME way to spend our afternoon.

 Then we had the 10 mile ride back to the car...Where I decided we needed to try to drive to the 'end of the cape'...(Turns out it was almost 2 hours to the point from where we were)

We didn't quite make it all the way, but we found a 'real' beach and some really good sea food!