Cape Cod Camping

In order to make this the craziest month of the year, we threw in a camping trip to Cape Cod for 2 nights. We headed to Nickerson State Park after church on Sunday and set up camp. Purely for documentation sake I have to say that setting up a camp with an 8 month old baby is tough. I set the tarp out for her to crawl around on, but no. The dirt, leaves, and bikes were WAY more interesting. Oh well, it's all part of camping and we have a lot of fun so it's totally worth the hard work.

Emily is our little helper. She loves to be given a task. Here she was sent to find little sticks for our morning fire. I don't have any pictures of our delicious camping food, but it was pretty good. Our first night we made foil dinners and in the morning we had dutch oven eggs and sausage scramble. From there the food actually went down hill because it took too much work, but we at least had 2 great camping meals!After breakfast we loaded up to go for a bike ride. Somewhere on our drive to the park Justin's back bike tire FELL OFF. Yup, totally gone- the whole tire. Whoops. Luckily biking is very popular in this particular area so it was easy to rent one.

Lyla was naturally not a fan of the bike helmet or the trailer for that matter. However, once we started riding she was a little happy. I'm not sure how much Emily loved being squished next to a crying baby though. Sometimes I guess it is just hard to be a big sister.

The trail we rode on was not the easiest of all trails. It was really hilly. There were times when I would be huffing and Justin would say, "You can't be that tired, you aren't pulling these girls." I think I enjoyed the bike ride the most.

However, no matter how hard the bike ride is, when this is your destination all the intensity is forgotten!

The Cape Cod beach was BEAUTIFUL. I believe we went to Crosby beach. When we first got there it was low tide and you could walk out really far to sand banks. We all had a great time playing in the water. Then Me, Justin, and Lyla played on the towel and Emily made some friends and played in the sand.

We had a great day at the beach and as we were riding our bikes back to camp we came upon a lake with a nice beach. (No you can't get too much swimming on a camping/beach vacay.) We decided that riding back with everyone was going to be really exhausting, so me and the girls stayed and played at the beach and Justin rode back to get the car.

That night a storm was rolling in and we decided we didn't want to be tent bound. We went to dinner at a restaurant called Arnold's Clam Shack. Just think deep friend sea food. Justin and I shared a Fisherman's platter that had deep fried calamari, shrimp, oysters, clams, scallops, and cod. It was definitely a lot of grease... but it was pretty tasty (except the oysters and clams- yuck.)

The night wouldn't be complete without a movie after dinner, so next stop was the drive-in to see Harry Potter. Luckily we(Justin) got Lyla to sleep before the movie started and she snoozed in her car seat the entire time! Emily fell asleep in about 5 minutes, so then we could just sit back and enjoy. I'm not sure Harry Potter was the best movie to see there though. We had to park kind of far back since our car is bigger (lame) and it was sort of hard to see the details and facial expressions and what not. Although, after many midnight showings this was a fun alternative.

After the movie we took our two sleepy heads back to camp where we all slept in until 8 o'clock!!! That is a miracle for our little girls, especially when we're camping. Sadly we packed up camp and headed home.

We did stop in the town of Hyannis to tour the Cape Cod potato chip factory and to take a ride on the Cape Cod merry-go-round.

We had another fabulous trip together. Little trips like this remind me how lucky I am to have a fantastic husband and serious 2 of the cutest little girls in the whole entire universe!

p.s. if you ever want to go to Cape Cod, come visit us I will go with you in a heart beat!!!