Our last vacation of the summer, we were off to Cape Cod for four days. We crammed in a lot of activities - which is why this is in two parts - and took a lot of naps. Who knew we’d have time for naps?
Ok, but first, before we left, we had the usual hour-long how-the-heck-do-we-get-these-bikes-on-the-bike-rack session. Ugh. So frustrating. We use the bike rack once or twice a year and we can NEVER remember how we did it. Which bike went on first? In which direction? What position does the bike rack go in? Why is this pedal hitting the car? It didn’t hit before. How many bungee cords did we use? Where is the key to the bike lock? Well, after this year’s hour-long session, Paul got smart and took a picture! Then when we came home?
Easy peasy.
On the ride to the Cape there was, of course, knitting. I worked on my basic socks (with my newly awesome knitting needle obsessions: Knitter’s Pride Karbonz) and got to the heel on both:
Next up for these is the new-to-me Sweet Tomato Heel, a short row heel designed by Cat Bordhi. That was it for exciting stuff on the drive.
We had a gorgeous view from 2 sides of our room.
And from the deck outside of our room:
Where we sat and read and knit and had beverages:
We walked a lot. And what do you know? One of the walks ended at A Stitch in Thyme Yarn Shop! I’ve been there before and already had it in my mind that I wanted to go there to get some fingering weight yarn to start a new project (shocker), Ecuador, which is a swingy, drapey, sorta lacey, short sleeve cardi-type thing (click on that link to see the pattern picture). So, I found this:
You’ll see my progress on it in the next post. Ha! How’s that for a hook to get you to read the next post?
Another one of our walks was to Rock Harbor and we walked out on “the flats” at low tide. First, here is a picture at high tide:
And at low tide:
And we walked waaaaaaaaaay out there. Here is the view looking back from where we went:
And this one is even further out – so far that we got to where the ocean actually started again:
On the way out we saw:
Thos things in the lower right corner are things that grow oysters. They can only be checked on/harvested at low tide! At high tide they are under many feet of water.
Oh, and there was breakfast:
The yummiest corned beef hash eggs benedict:
I kept it healthy with the fruit instead of hash browns. (Ha!) I’ve been on a benedict kick lately. I also had eggs benedict on a cheesey bacon biscuit. O.M.G.
Enough pretty pictures for today? The rest of the trip will be in the next post. You know you want to see how my Ecuador is coming…. (it’s actually not that far along, but don’t you want to see how that yarn is knitting up?)
