Cape May

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The weekend of October 5 Rob and I went to Cape May for the weekend. This was to spend some time together after the 'incident' that happened over the summer that most of you who actually read this know about. It was a very nice weekend. The weather was amazing for October. When I was packing I took a bathing suit and said "I will take this because if I don't I will wish I had" fully expecting that I would not use it. I used it-I should have taken two.

We went down there on Friday night. Lisa stayed at home with my kids. Friday night we went and played skee-ball and then walked back to the b&b on the beach. It was a little chilly but we had hot chocolate so it was not too bad. Here is a picture of where we stayed. The room we stayed in had a cool shower with a whole bunch of shower heads. It faced the beach and I could hear the ocean at night.



Saturday we walked around the shopping area. It's a good time to go because everything is on clearance since they are closing up for the season. Around 4 we went back to the b&b and had afternoon refreshments, then we put on bathing suits and went and laid on the beach for almost two hours. It was 88 degrees in October! Crazy!

Sunday we went to the beach much earlier in the day. It was so beautiful out and I figured I definitely won't be going to the beach again until next summer at this point so we may as well hang out there all day. We walked for a while and saw dolphins. You can't so them so great but it's kind of hard to get a picture.







It's a really cool time of year to go because there are tons of migrating birds also. I have no idea what kind of birds these are but there went loads of them.














A dorky picture or Rob and I that we took ourselves.










There were also tons of people actually successfuly surfing. I have never seen that in New Jersey. I guess the water was a lot rougher than when we are usually at the beach. But it was New Jersey in October-not when you usually go to the beach.










This is just a cool picture I took. I had to make a whole bunch of attempts so it has to be on here.




We wound up hanging out at the beach basically all day on Sunday. Since it's not summer anymore, it never occured to me that we should have sunscreen. We were both a little burned. I was pretty tan this summer (for me anyway) so I wasn't too bad and it now I am ust tan. Rob's face peeled though.

Finally, it is also butterfly migration time. This I knew because it is a big deal at my school. The Kindergarten kids have a parade where they dress us and march around the building singing "gotta go to Mexico". I did not know that the butterflies make a stop in Cape May. There were loads of Monarchs everywhere. Rob was making fun of me for trying to take pictures of them. But I got some good ones and he admitted later that it was pretty cool.




Monday after we checked out we took another walk on the beach before we headed home. There were no boats in the water so there were even more dolphins than there were on Sunday, they were closer and playing a lot more, jumping up out of the water. Of course, I didn't haev my camera.

I think this post is long enough. I will try to be a little better about my updates!