Cape May Day Whatever
Good Morning all my adoring fans. It's another torrid day here in the rain forest. It never rains...it doesn't have to because the humidity is 66%. Going to be 101 today they say.
So far for activities we have gone shopping, gone to the beach, gone to the Boardwalk (which isn't even a city block long and very cute) come back to the house and gone to bed. Yesterday Patty and I made the mistake of 'running to the Cingular Store' to get a charger. The mistake was bringing Viola, who must get a present at every store. I finally distracted her by offering her food so we wound up at Starbucks buying a two dollar cookie. When we walked into the Cingular store the bimbo behind the counter looked up and said 'Please Sign In!' There was only one other person in the store. Regardless it still took almost 20 minutes to purchase a pre-packaged pre-priced charger. So much for Customer Service. Then we went to the grocery store for birthday cards for Hannah. $65.00 later we left and careened back to the house, after stopping at the Liquor Store and the Beachwear store. Jesus. Then Patty took a nap & I went to the beach. The beach is actually fantastic, quite different from Maine. Very coarse sand and raucous surf. There are a lot of dolphins swimming about 500 feet from the shoreline. They go back and forth and jump around, do some tail walking, and whatever dolphins do. They follow the guys on the Sea-Doos. There is also a lot of people para-sailing (?)... being dragged by a boat while you're dangling 100 feet off the ground from a parachute. Looks like fun?
For diversions one can get out of the beach chair and walk to the Ladies Room. And back. There are a couple of bars across the street from the Boardwalk, but we have always had children with us so we drink at home. Otherwise it's just sitting and sitting. It's great. The water is full of small stinging jellyfish about the size of a jelly doughnut. Harry got stung pretty badly yesterday. Come to find out he was trying to catch jellyfish in a bucket. It took about an hour for the pain to die down. Guess he won't do that again!
So far I haven't been able to get Emily out of her jeans and into a bathing suit. We'll see about today when it's like Death Valley at the beach.
More later, we're having a party tonight so will give you the dirt tomorrow, and I'll try and download some pictures later.
So far for activities we have gone shopping, gone to the beach, gone to the Boardwalk (which isn't even a city block long and very cute) come back to the house and gone to bed. Yesterday Patty and I made the mistake of 'running to the Cingular Store' to get a charger. The mistake was bringing Viola, who must get a present at every store. I finally distracted her by offering her food so we wound up at Starbucks buying a two dollar cookie. When we walked into the Cingular store the bimbo behind the counter looked up and said 'Please Sign In!' There was only one other person in the store. Regardless it still took almost 20 minutes to purchase a pre-packaged pre-priced charger. So much for Customer Service. Then we went to the grocery store for birthday cards for Hannah. $65.00 later we left and careened back to the house, after stopping at the Liquor Store and the Beachwear store. Jesus. Then Patty took a nap & I went to the beach. The beach is actually fantastic, quite different from Maine. Very coarse sand and raucous surf. There are a lot of dolphins swimming about 500 feet from the shoreline. They go back and forth and jump around, do some tail walking, and whatever dolphins do. They follow the guys on the Sea-Doos. There is also a lot of people para-sailing (?)... being dragged by a boat while you're dangling 100 feet off the ground from a parachute. Looks like fun?
For diversions one can get out of the beach chair and walk to the Ladies Room. And back. There are a couple of bars across the street from the Boardwalk, but we have always had children with us so we drink at home. Otherwise it's just sitting and sitting. It's great. The water is full of small stinging jellyfish about the size of a jelly doughnut. Harry got stung pretty badly yesterday. Come to find out he was trying to catch jellyfish in a bucket. It took about an hour for the pain to die down. Guess he won't do that again!
So far I haven't been able to get Emily out of her jeans and into a bathing suit. We'll see about today when it's like Death Valley at the beach.
More later, we're having a party tonight so will give you the dirt tomorrow, and I'll try and download some pictures later.
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