Yarmouth, Cape Cod
We spent an amazing week at Cape Cod. It was beautiful and relaxing. Such a great holiday place. Number of Asians seen besides my parents: 2. One was the Chinese take out lady. So the first day we took a drive to Hyannis, the town next to Yarmouth. Beautiful harbor.
This picture was taken for Francis' terrapin. I'm sorry I couldn't find a pino. And yes, Pina is a garbage company. Lol.
Well, we went to Province Town which is located on the "fist" of Cape Cod. If you don't know, Cape Cod is shaped like a flexed arm. Provincetown is a very gay-friendly town... in fact I don't think I've seen so many gays and lesbians in one place at a time! But well. That's a different blog entry. We had a great time there... it was a very lively and touristy town.
This is the Pilgrim's Tower. Apparently the pilgrims came to Provincetown before Plymouth. Who knew?
We went whale watching. It was the best thing! We had an INCREDIBLY successful outing. We had 20 sightings! Imagine that. 12 finback whales and 8 humpback whales! We even saw a mother whale and her baby whale doing backflips! It is truly a sight to behold.
And I would sincerely like all of you to see it, except my camera batteries konked out when we had our first sighting. So all I have to show of my great whale chasing expedition is this miserable picture. Sigh.
Anyway, back in the hotel, the two bags my parents bought from the luggage shop on the 1st floor in Gurney Plaza, center concourse (hint hint) finally broke apart. Here's mom trying to sew it back. DON'T buy bags from that shop. It's horrible! Tore on day one!
Well we climbed up the Scargo Tower and had a great view of the Cape.
That's mom and dad!
And we visited many tiny towns and cute shops with lots of knick-knacks. My parents had a great time. I sat around and took pictures.
We went lighthousing! That was fun. This is the lighthouse at Chatham. Chatham is a BEAUTIFUL town.
Here we are up on top. Learned a lot about lighthouses. But I'm too lazy to impart the knowledge. Plus, how many of you are actually reading this? :)
Here are mom and dad.
Them again. You know, all their pictures turn out so nice (thanks to moi! :) hehe) but I don't have many good pictures. And it's NOT my fault! Lol
Here we are dipping our feet in the Atlantic Ocean. It really is amazing... it's so vast and COLD!
And we just drove where our will took us. And discovered many "hidden treasures".
Of course being at Cape Cod, one HAS to eat lobster. One day I had lobster for lunch AND dinner! This was the best deal though. It was $19.90 for TWO lobsters, corn, coleslaw AND rice!! Oooooo.
Can you tell I LOVE lobster?
Boston
We also took a day trip to Boston. It's a beautiful city. Although I don't think we spent enough time to truly appreciate it! We took a tour with Duck Tours. here is Captain Foghorn! haha.
Boston skyline!
Quincy Market. Lots of knickknacks here. Took my parents to Crate & Barrel too! They loved it. I LOVE the place. :) Haha. They bought stuff from there... too bad it's so much of a hassle to ship things back.
Being in the "Harvard of the Midwest", I simply had to go visit the real thing right? :) So we made a trip to Harvard. Ya know... to "prospie" there. Haha. Yeah right.
And the Harvard graduate. This is the Harvard campus at UM! HAha |
So I'm an idiot and I clicked publish when I didn't mean to. Anyway here is Harvard again! 
And we got to meet up with Ing Chea! He showed us around his lab at MIT.
And let us touch liquid hydrogen. Or was it nitrogen? Hmm. Who knows?
The genius.
And we took him out to a Malaysian restaurant. Preeetty good food!
Back on the cape
Cape Cod really was a great time. A nice change of pace from New York, but oh so beautiful. One day we got lost so many times looking for a flea market. But it really was God because we arrived just in time for great deals...
... and then we went to this beach for a walk... (here's the BOY)
and the BUOY! ha ha ha ha
... and we were witness to one of God's most beautiful creations: the sunset! First time in our lives we'd ever seen the sun LITERALLY go down into the horizon. I have a great video!
What a beautiful end to our time at Cape Cod!
What an awesome reminder of God's constant faithfulness, favor and hand upon our lives. His mercies are new every morning. His faithfulness high as the clouds. What a great God we serve.
