When our Holy Cross friend, Molly, offered us a room in her family's Cape house for Labor Day Weekend, and Emmet miraculously had off for three consecutive days, we knew this trip was meant to be. You never turn down a trip to Cape Cod.
One of the few good things about getting up at 6 am is that when you are in Harwich, you can be the first ones at "Bonatt's Bakery," which we knew from last year, opens at 6:30 am. We spent two mornings there drinking lots of coffee and feeding the kids eggs, fruit and yummy bakery treats.
The other morning we went to the Chatham lighthouse, climbed down to the water with bagels and coffee, put out a blanket, and watched the kids run around on the shore, while two seals bounced their heads up in the channel. It was one of my favorite things we did.
Beach days were different for us than our friends at this stage: They drank beer and lounged on blankets and in chairs reading and chatting and playing lawn games- we endlessly told Cora to stop eating sand and entertained Keeley by going into the ocean and building sand castles. However, everyone had fun in their own way :)
The other life saver was that our friend Becca was there for the weekend with her sister and her nephews who are 4 and 1. We met them both mornings from 9-11 at Harwich beach and playground to tire the children out before naps. Keeley loved her new friend Seamus.
As the only couple with children in a house of ten Holy Cross buddies and significant others ready to party, we knew in advance it would be tiring, but worth it. And that's just what it was. With no will power to go to bed early when old college stories were being thrown around, and two children who get up at six, it was a full time job keeping us all going on our mini-vacation. But the girls loved the beaches and the attention from our friends, and we loved the family memories at one of our favorite places in the world.
Our friends witnessed feeding toddlers outside in summer, an adventure in and of itself.
PS-Our last day in Harwichport was made complete with some ice cream from "Sundae Shop" for the girls and two beers and oysters on the half shell for Mom and Dad at "The Port."
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