Cape Cod

August 21st, 2006 by: cheyenne

Baby Riley eats the prunes. Cape Cod

She looks rather pleased about those prunes (those are prunes, by the way, squashed into a consistency that one does normally not expect prunes to assume); it’s hard to believe but she was screaming bloody murder earlier.

After Maine, we headed south to Boston where a post-wedding east-coast family gathering was taking place at Elise’s parent’s house. I probably mentioned that my brother Sage married Elise in June, but I’m a loser and didn’t post any photos. I guess I was under the assumption that nearly everyone I know who reads this was in fact at the wedding. Not so, it turns out, so here are the photos you all have been waiting for.

Sage, Elise and Riley. Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

The day after the party we all headed to Cape Cod, where Elise’s family has a small cottage. The weather was somewhat uncooperative but we were able to take some good walks after it stopped raining and were even persuaded to dip ourselves in water that was less than 84 degrees.

The last night we were there, we went over to the outer ocean side just before sunset and there were dozens of people fishing in the surf. Bluefish is evidently something that is fished regularly off Cape Cod and nowhere else. People were pulling in large fish everywhere we looked. One guy who was fishing right in front of us hooked one and when he reeled it in, he gave it to us. Pretty exciting. We split up into two groups: put-the-baby/clean-the-fish and get-the-groceries and met home later to cook dinner. I believe everyone was very glad Joshua was there to gut and clean it.

small fry on the beach. Cape Code

Along the surfline on the beach were zillions of tiny dead fish. It was very odd; they were all perfect and glittering things and the colors were so bright against the tan-colored sand, like little fishy sapphires.

We left early-ish the next day for the drive back to Lexington. Here’s a photo of what the sky was doing somewhere across southern Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Sky Freeway



One Comment on “Cape Cod”

  1. Peg Bowden says:

    Hey there,
    The picture of Riley Marie is priceless. She has such a mischievous glint in her eye. Nice to know she has you wrapped around her little finger. The little opalescent fishies look like smelt. I wonder if warmer waters have killed the fish. I was just on Lake Erie, and there were dead fish all on the shore due to the warmer water temperatures. (they think). Love, Mom

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