Spring Update #4 // Luck of the Irish?

St. Patty's day outfit - green shirt & shamrock earrings.

Woke up a little late this morning, had to get dressed quickly to go meet cousin Jenn at George's Place. I drove there :) Dropped mom off to get in line (there is always a wait at George's, it's just too good). I had to drive around before I parked on Beach Avenue. Since we were waiting, I walked up to Across the Way to pick up a necklace charm I saw yesterday and I decided I wanted.

Just Be :) - a motto I try to live by

I came back to George's and Jenn was there. Mom had sad news; our neighbor Denise called her to tell us that the Pastor of Cape May's Baptist church, Jim Berger (our former CM neighbor mentioned in my post yesterday) had died in his sleep. We were all shocked to hear this news, as we had just seen him yesterday. So that was very sad to hear. We lost a neighbor a week ago as well, but he was a much older man. I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to know him better. Small town, news travels fast.

I had a pork roll sandwich at George's, yum! Never go wrong with that. Or really anything on their menu. Dad even let me have a bite of his banana french toast - my other favorite there. Jenn came back to the house and chatted with us while we packed. It's a lot easier being able to leave the linens and towels in Cape May.

Our neighbor Denise came by, and we all chatted about Jim. It sounded like he had a heart attack and passed in his sleep. He thought he was having heartburn -- something we all should remember to take seriously. I guess if there is any way to go, in your sleep without suffering is ok.

We showed Denise the house and the current progress - hopefully by the time in April my parents go up, the painting will be done.

We left at 3:30 pm and I drove for a good hour. A little on the Garden State Parkway and then on some two  lane road for a while. Good driving, but I'm not used to driving long distances.

Stopped at Wawa and switched drivers. We met our friends Lori and Jana at the Harrison House for dinner at about 5 pm. I had Manhattan clam chowder and cheesesteak sliders (surprisingly delicious). We all had rice pudding for dessert.

Dad drove the rest of the way home, we got a little turned around somewhere in Delaware (the only state I didn't drive in this trip!). We stopped at Wawa for gas and McDonald's to pee. Finally got home around ~10 pm. Had the pretzel Lori gave us from the Philly Pretzel Factory (um, yum) and a bite of leftovers, and our brownie from the Ravioli House.

Only a little bit of time until my next trip. Until May 25, I bid y'all adieu. See you in a few weeks.

xo,
capemaychick

See ya in May, house!

Spring Break Update #3

Today was a fun day! Got up at 11 am to go meet our cousins Barbara and Murray at Bella Vida for lunch. I drove there! We had a nice time.

We even ran into our old Cape May neighbors at Bella Vida! We exchanged contact information so we could see them in the summer. After lunch, mom, dad and I looked in the antique store by there, but there was nothing good.

My new necklace

I drove us to the mall and went to my favorite store, Across the Way. I got a beautiful bird/flower necklace. Went home and then left for Wildwood, I drove again! We stopped at the Seahorse Antique store before leaving town, and I picked up three antique vinyl records, to try to make some jewelry at home.

$1 per record was a good deal

We stopped in at our friend Ginny's embroidery place, named Sandpiper - just like my kitty girl. That was nice, she told me to call her when I'm up in CM by myself to meet me in Cape May for dinner. Love our friends. We stopped in the Ravioli house to pick up some cookies and desserts. Yum.

We stopped at the Lobster House on the way back, and picked up some crab fingers to take home to Virginia. We couldn't find the can opener here so that's why they are coming home, LOL! We also got some lobster salad to eat for a snack.

After our snack, I went across the street to see our neighbor Denise. I met her through one of our other neighbor/friends on the street and have stayed in touch with her for years. I had a nice time chatting with her, she gave me an adorable cactus plant. I can't wait to take care of it at home.

We all relaxed for a little while before our friend Nicole came over with her girls, Sage, Hudson and baby Aria. I went out by myself (YAY) to pick up the Chinese food from Cape Orient. I never knew there was a Chinese place here, but I'm glad I know now since it is so delicious. We had spring rolls, crab rangoons, meat and spinach dumplings, fried pineapple rice, cold sesame noodles, mango chicken, szeuchan chicken and then Nicole brought us her vanilla ice cream and root beer. We had great rootbeer floats!

Holding Aria.

I had a great time hanging out with everyone, especially Nicole's kids. Sage is 6, Hudson is 4 and Aria just turned one. We ran all over the house with our blue sparkle cats and played around. They all imitate each other and was just really cute. They didn't want to leave!

We cleaned up and got into bed, so excited to have had so much fun here, but sad that it is coming to an end. Still, we have a few more hours tomorrow!

xo,
capemaychick

Beware the Ides of March

Woke up this morning around 11 am. Our neighbor Betty was talking to my dad downstairs. She called the editor of the Cape may Magazine about me interviewing there for an internship. She left a message and said that I should stop by their office.

I slept well except for the radiator clanking that woke me up around 5 am. I finished my Angel episode in bed and went downstairs. Had a bowl of Special K (wow, this is an interesting life I lead). Lounged around, got dressed and read my book. Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen. Pretty good. My mom went to the Acme and got some food to eat with our leftovers for lunch.

We ate our leftover Holly's chicken, salads from the Ugly Mug dinner we had last night and mom got some bread and butter. Had Entenmann's St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes. Sweet.

We left around 2 pm for the mall. I went to meet the Cape May Magazine editor for my interview. I gave her my portfolio, we chatted for a few minutes and I am now going to have a short unpaid internship at the Cape May Magazine this summer! I am very excited, as I have wanted to do this for so many years. My dreams coming true at last.

We went to City Hall to get our mercantile license - so we can rent the house - and our beach tags. They had cute anchor designs! We poked in a few stores. We went to Henry's Jewelry and weren't going to go in, until dad saw a cat inside! So naturally we went in...


We got to meet Booboo! Boo. She is one of the cats that lives with the women who works in Henry's and lives above the shop. She was a sweet little kitty. She is 20 years old! We stayed a while and chatted with her owner, Debby.

Me petting Booboo

Jewelry kitty

Boo approves my purchase. She liked my Hello Kitty Debit Card

There, I bought the most adorable Alex and Ani anchor bracelet. I'm so in love with anchors. Mom got a sea horse ring.

We came home and mom went on a beach walk. I read a magazine, and then picked mom up (YES that's right, I drove by MYSELF in Cape May!) from the end of the beach.

Mom saw this on her walk, how cute!

We went out to dinner at the Pilot House. It was open mic night so it was very loud, but the food was nevertheless good. Mom and dad had their award winning burgers and I had grouper fingers and Irish potato wedges. I drove us to and from the mall for dinner!

We have a lot on our plates for tomorrow, so I need to head to bed.

xo,
capemaychick

Pi Day Pie Please // Driving!

Some day, we will actually leave on time for Cape May. But alas, that was not today. I think we only got out an hour & 10 minutes later?

I'm a driving driver! Note: this was taken in the drive way, before I started the car, you worrywarts!

It was very windy when we loaded up dad's car, so we decided to go overland. Since part of the reason we were taking the ferry route was so I could practice the drive up to Cape May. So sometime after 11 am we left. I started our drive there, spending a good 30-40 minutes on 495. What a drive. Between the wind blowing the SUV all around (scary doesn't begin to describe this) and the horrible drivers with the tractor trailers swerving out of their lanes and people cutting me off (excuse me, but I'm going 10 miles over the speed limit/flow of traffic).

I got off at a Popeyes and we switched drivers. Dad drove the rest of the way over Bay Bridge (high wind warning) and to Holly's. We had our usual waiter who actually remembered us again! He asked where we were going, Cape May obvs. He asked how we made out in the storm. This made me realize a lot of people don't realize that NOT all of the Jersey Shore was destroyed by Sandy. CM better promote our little town to get the business it clearly will need!

We had good, fresh fried chicken lunch and chocolate silk pie for pi day! We took 301, took a few Wawa pit stops. Stopped in Cowtown at a cowboy clothing store. Saw some great and expensive leather boots! We stopped in Vineland at the Target to pee and let me check out the Prabal Gurung Clearance - nothing good.

We drove a whiles longer and then before the Garden State Parkway, I switched to driving again! Drove from Cape May Court House all the way to home! First time I've ever driven in Cape May.

Went home, admired the paint and house changes. It looks great, especially the blue paint! Brought everything in the house.

We drove to the Ugly Mug for dinner. Had a great Manhattan clam chowder and a huge sesame chicken salad. Our salads literally could have served all three of us, so we have lots of leftovers.

We came home and got everything set up in the house for the night. Lots to do tomorrow. So I am off to read my book and watch Angel in bed!

xo,
capemaychick

December 30/19th Birthday Update - few months later

So it is March and I am in Cape May again. I realized I never posted the last entry from the day we went home in December 2012...here it is!

Mom closed my door downstairs this morning so I could sleep in until 10:30 am. It is so noisy sleeping downstairs instead of my room upstairs. Yay it's my 19th birthday at the beach, a dream come true! I got up and got dressed.

We left for George's and parked on the street. I got up on the boardwalk to look at the ocean and take pictures. In George's I had a pork roll sandwich and we shared scrapple. Can you say yum? A great birthday lunch.

We drove down to Jefferson street beach and took pictures. It looked so different with the dunes gone. We dropped off Michael and dad and mom drove us back to Congress Hall. We shopped in the Christmas shop markets outside. It was windy but cute and fun!

Mom bought me a pink butterfly watch. At a Place on Earth I got some coconut lemongrass soap scrub. We got fudge and nonpareils at Fudge Kitchen.

We walked back to Congress Hall and got a blue pig cookie and a 2013 brownie - birthday treats. We went home, packed the house and cleaned, folded laundry. We had our snack, the brownie and the rest of our bliss peppermint ice cream. Yum! I also had a lot of egg nog.

We pretty much packed up the car and finished up in the house. We decided to go home over land instead of taking the ferry because it was super windy. Didn't want a repeat of the nauseating ferry ride here. We drove through Cape May Court House and Rio Grande before I fell asleep.

We had dinner at the Double T diner in Whitemarsh, Maryland. I had cream of crab soup, and a ham, cheese and turkey sandwich. Yum! We got lots of cookies for home. We got back to the house around 11 pm.

Opened some mail, unpacked and had our cookies. Sad to be home but looking forward to going back in March!