Back when Carol and I were coaching Audrey's T-ball team there was a boy on the team named Zack. He and Audrey hit it off and it turns out they only live a block away. We started hanging out together. Zack's parents are Dana and Rachel and he has two brothers Linus (3) and Miles (2). They love to come over and play chase in our yard. When I'm not biking and I ride the train to work Dana and I are often on the same train.
They have a beach cottage in Dennisport on Cape Cod that has been in Dana's family since the early 70s. Dana and Rachel invited us to join them there on the weekend after Labor Day. We drove Ruby Tuesday down and camped in their driveway.
The cottage is classic: plywood walls, mixed flooring, big louver windows, outdoor shower and a Gorton's fisherman lamp. It is in a little community with a bunch of other similar cottages along narrow sandy drives. There's a pond on the property and the beach is a block away. Great bike riding for the kids and they took advantage of it.
We of course had to partake in traditional beach activities. We had ice cream at the Sundae School. We played mini-golf at Pirate's Cove. We petted animals and saw a cool live tegu demonstration at Zooquarium. It wasn't warm enough to swim in the ocean, but the kids and I flew a kite on the beach.
After we packed up and closed the cottage on Sunday we all visited the Long Pasture Audubon Sanctuary in Barnstable. It was fantastic. Right off the bat we encountered a bunch of goats running loose eating vegetation. The kids really enjoyed feeding and petting the goats. And naming them. Then we had a lovely picnic on the grass overlooking Cape Cod Bay and went for a walk through the forest to a butterfly meadow. It wasn't butterfly season but the walk and the meadow were pretty.
As our last stop we visited Four Seas Ice Cream in Centerville but we hit it on their last day of business for the season. They weren't serving scoops, they were only selling pints and quarts. So we bought a quart of chocolate and improvised with camping stuff from the van, using a knife and cutting board to slice servings for everyone. We successfully produced five kids with chocolate faces.
It was a really fun weekend.
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