Cape Cod Part Five, The Final Chapter

We had a fun filled and packed Friday with trips to the ocean beach, the yummy Corner Store burrito place, pond swimming, pizza and finally s'mores. Coming home yesterday was bittersweet, the obvious 'bitter' part being the leaving the vacation house and all of its fun, but sweet is being back at our own house and bed. The whole week was pretty amazing with the exception of Kaleb's sleeping patterns and occasional bad behavior. I definitely ate food like I was loading up prior to going on the Biggest Loser, ice cream, pizza, beer, two helpings of everything at dinner and big old sandwiches everyday. I probably spent a little too much time on the iPad, MacBook and iPhone, but that is relaxing to me. Unfortunately due mostly to the increased number of children in our family I was unable to work on iPhone-iPad apps, but I think I have some good ideas and hope to schedule a couple nights a week to them. As always it was great vacationing with Cara, Jeff and Maddox, many thanks to them for putting up with the chaos that comes along with our family and also Kaleb's nearly disconcerting obsession with "Cawa".

Now it is time to go back to work for a couple weeks before we once again head out for a week long vacation on the Jersey Shore with the extended Riebe family. The Cape trip was the perfect dry run leading up to the expected craziness that is bound to ensue down near home turf of Snookie and 'The Situation'. I hope Jersey can handle "Parkles", Kaleb's new nickname after trying pop rocks and announcing his mouth was 'parkling'.

Here is the last round of photos:

Cape Cod Part Five

Cape Cod Three & Four

I am a bit late with Cape Code Part Three because of the internet problems at the house. Today we went to Nickerson State Park twice, we initially went to do a little beaching, but it was kind of cool with the wind so we went home and then came back later to do a little hiking. Kaleb was a champ and must have walked over a mile before requiring a lift up on my shoulders. We then went swimming for about a half an hour. Here are the photos.

Cape Cod Part Three

Cape Cod Part Four

Beach Day, Again ;-)

After another horrid night of sleeping by Kaleb, we gathered up the toys, blankets, bags, umbrellas, diapers, etc... and went to Head of the Meadow Beach We were one of like 6 cars there, which goes to show it pays to go in the offseason. Good times were had by all including the construction of a stone road for Kaleb's tractors and some very successful skipping of stones.

On the way home we stopped at this great Pizza/Ice Cream/Espresso shop and had lunch. The pizza was "fire kissed" and tasted delicious. The ice cream selection was amazing with flavors like, Maple Bacon, Mocha Fudge Brownie, and Celebration cake. We had our own individual ice creams and also bought some pints for the road. It was called Savory and the Sweet Escape, the web site seems to be down, but it is right on Route 6 in Truro.

I spent the rest of the day in a state of complete exhaustion, so now I am ready to hit the hay.

Cape Cod Part Two

First Full Day of Vacation

We completed the first full day of vacation and so far it has been wonderful. The only bad part so far has been Kaleb's sleeping habits. He was up this morning at 2AM and then 5AM. This isn't really new for him and I think it is related to how damn bright it is at 5AM. We went to the beach today and set up our little tent in the 30MPH wind. Kaleb was really brave and went in the water and even got his hair wet which is a huge leap forward for him.

Jeff and Jennifer are getting dinner ready, tonight dinner consists of Bonanaza Steak tips(don't know what flavor that is, but it looked good in the store.) and Basil, parmesan, sun dried tomato chicken. Tonight I hope to do a little iPhone app development, my goal for the week is to improve the MoonLite app and to get started with a graphical app for the iPad. We'll see how far I get given my current level of exhaustion.

Here are some pictures:

Cape Cod Part One

Couple More Albums

Marsh Rail Trail

Camden Day 101

More Photos

I took a little vacation and haven't been to work since last Thursday. Of course as of today I am now feeling sick and I don't know what symptoms are related to allergies and which are related to having a cold. Arghh! I have been doing a ton of family historian stuff which includes importing all the photos from the last few weeks and uploading to Picasa. So here they are.

Discovery Day at Joppa Flats

Day Trip to Portland

Annual Canoe Trip

Gagas Birthday

Parker River Visit

Beautiful May Weekend

Just a quick post to sum up a beautiful weekend. We didn't leave the house on Saturday and spent most of the day in the yard. Today was a different story and we went all over the place. We started at the Farmers market in Newburyport and then hurried back to Merrimac with a brief stop on Deer Island to check out some machine that is residing off shore. We met Cara and Jeff at the house and then went out for lunch with them at Hodgies. We came back so Kaleb could take his nap. After his nap we went to the beach for a great early evening adventure. Kaleb got a new velcro baseball glove so we actually played catch for the first time. We also spent quite a long amount of time climbing on the jetty and shooting water at each other by squeezing sea weed. We had beach pizza for dinner and ended the weekend on the back deck watching as the Space Shuttle and Space Station flew overhead. It is the last flight for Atlantis and I was glad Kaleb was able to see it although he was disappointed that he couldn't see the wings or the spacemen.