Cape/Vineyard

We did it! We finally took a family vacation this year. I took a week off in between jobs and have been having some quality family time. Monday we drove to Cape Cod. We were pretty adventurous and took our bikes on vacation with us, which turned out to be a good idea. We drove to Dennis and enjoyed a nice 25-26 mile bike ride on the Cape Cod Rail Trail from Dennis to Chattam and back. We were a bit worn out from the ride, but it was beautiful. We made a few pit stops on the bike ride to swim in a pond and play on some slides, that way all parties in the family were happy about being on this bike path so long.

Tuesday we got up early to head from our hotel in Hyannis to Woods Hole to catch a Ferry with our bikes to Martha's Vineyard. I have wanted to go the Vineyard the entire summer and we FINALLY made it for a day trip. We started out in Oaks Bluff were we saw these adorable Gingerbread Houses. There are 110 of these cute houses and people actually live in them. Berkeley got to ride on the oldest carousel in America as well which he loved, even though he took the ride very seriously. He just kept touching the horses hair and holding on to the rail.

We hopped on our bikes after that and rode to Edgartown; this was a bit more up scale but very adorable town. Most the houses followed this model. Such a fancy little town.

We made it to the Edgartown Lighthouse and were able to play on the beach for a bit and stretch our legs. Berke man is always happy when he can play in the sand and water, so he was in heaven.

It was a humid day on the Vineyard and with all the bike riding, we were pretty gross and smelly at this point, however that doesn't mean we cant take a nice family photo on the beach.

We drove back to Oak Bluffs to catch our ferry back to the Cape, get on the bike bus, load up the bikes, drive to the car, load the bikes on the car, and drove 45 minutes back to Hyannis to our hotel. We were up at 6:00 a.m. and got back at 11:00 p.m. and Berke had no problem falling asleep after a fun filled and long day.

The next day we decided to relax a bit by strolling leisurely around Hyannis, playing in the arcade, riding yet another carousel, handing out in the big chair, eating Katie's ice cream, taking a run around the town to see all the boats, and chilling at the beach.

The beach was so calm and clear. We were able to walk in the water and see fish, crabs, snails, etc. We found lots of horseshoe crabs that we not the prettiest thing I've seen, but Christian was fascinated by all his cool creature and shell finds. Again, we managed to wear our kid out.

Thursday on our way home, Christian had a brilliant idea to stop in Plymouth to see the Mayflower and the Plymouth Rock. We were in the area, so why not stop, we had no where else we needed to be. It was really beautiful and we learned a lot about how those traveling on the Mayflower lived and gained a lot more respect for their awful journey to the Americas.

We ended the vacation with a bunch of Asian girls treating Berkeley like he was a tourist attraction; they all took a lot of pictures of him and laughed when he said "hi" to them. It was pretty amazing.

The trip went entirely too fast, but was so much fun. We really fit a lot into our little vacation and had a blast being able to spend quality time together.