I really am just DYING for the beach!
I was so excited yesterday when I got my Cape May newspaper. There is a new bakery shop opening near my beach house -- about 10-20 minutes away (walking, 3 minutes driving -- but who drives?). It looks really cute. I can't wait.
That's pretty much it, short post I know. You can expect more this weekend!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
48 days -- getting closer
So there is 48 days left til CMNJ. Getting close! Today I was at my best friend's house and we were talking about CM. Last summer she went there, but it was after me. We're hoping this year that she'll maybe meet me there. That would be so much fun! We're really close, pretty much exactly alike :) Love ya Samurai!
There is this restaurant in CM called Louie's. They sell Pizza and it is really good. They have a wall with license plates on it. They're trying to get every state. We have our old license plate up there which is really cool. Samurai saw it there and which is pretty cool.
I can't believe how close it's getting to CM time. I just cannot wait.
There is this restaurant in CM called Louie's. They sell Pizza and it is really good. They have a wall with license plates on it. They're trying to get every state. We have our old license plate up there which is really cool. Samurai saw it there and which is pretty cool.
I can't believe how close it's getting to CM time. I just cannot wait.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
52 days & still counting
Hello Again. Goodness, I just cannot wait for this trip. It really just gets me through the year, knowing that we're going there. I think that I am lucky to have found a place that makes me feel like that. I know that sounds weird, but Cape May is special.
I don't really have much to say for this post. It's earlier than usual, so I'm still groggy. Of course, when I go to the beach I get up pretty early. Because I feel that if you sleep late, you waste a day! So I like to get up around 10 am. At home I get up anywhere from 9:30-11:45. Today was a 10 am day. Yesterday was more like a 11:30 day.
I don't really have much to say for this post. It's earlier than usual, so I'm still groggy. Of course, when I go to the beach I get up pretty early. Because I feel that if you sleep late, you waste a day! So I like to get up around 10 am. At home I get up anywhere from 9:30-11:45. Today was a 10 am day. Yesterday was more like a 11:30 day.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The things I want to do this summer in CM
Hello Again.
So yesterday evening I was really, really bored. Then I was like, "Hey! Let's check the Cape May website." So I was on it. It was 5 degrees cooler there than it is here. SO NOT FAIR! So then I found a link to things that you can do in CM.
BRAIN BLAST! [Sorry for the Jimmy Neutron reference :(]. I decided to make a list of things that I want to do this summer. So I headed up a new microsoft word as things I want to do this summer in CM. I even found a little July calendar to put underneath the title. And so the list began. While this is still a work in progress...because I keep thinking of new things to put...it's a relatively good list!
Things I want to Do
Haunted Cape May Tour (Hotel Macomber)
See Harry Potter 6 (July 17 – Stone Harbor 5)
Visit Lucy the Elephant (B-day Bash July 18-19)
Get a Pina Colada Smoothie from Avalon Bagels
Ride my bike to Avalon Bagels for breakfast
Play Hard & Easy Mini Golf
Skeeball at the Arcade
Get an application to work at Making Waves
Make a Cape May Scavenger hunt for everyone
Get a hermit crab
Make cookies for the neighbors
Get a tan
Read a book in the lifeguard chair
Wake up early & watch the sun rise on the boardwalk
Visit Pearl Street
Visit Denise, Betty and Barbara
Go on a walk on the beach for shells/beach glass
Okay. Now to explain my list.
#1: Cape May does a haunted ghost tour at a hotel nearby our house. It's about a 90 minute tour and you walk a mile. What could be more fun that excercising while getting a tour of your favorite town and possibly learning new things and meeting ghosts! And did I mention it's in the dark? Even better :)
#2: I love Harry Potter and want to see the movie when it comes out. Of course I'll be at the beach. So I spent about 10 minutes googling a movie theatre near CM and there is one in the next town over (stone harbor) and it's about 30 minutes away. Thank you google maps -- yes I googled my CM address to the movie theatre!
#3: Lucy the Elephant is a really cool landmark. it's a big elephant building that you go in! check it out at www.lucytheelephant.org !
#4: There is this great bagel store around the block from our house. It's called avalon bagels. I love getting things from there. Especially a refreshing pina colada smoothie on a 90 degree day!
#5: See above. I love bringing back the bagel to eat on the porch.
#6: Vacation in CM would NOT be complete without playing mini golf. Personally I enjoy the easy (it's not easy, but easier than the other one) mini golf. It has all these fun things there. Such good memories. Tiger woods! And I would like to play at least 1 game at the hard one.
#7: My favorite game to play in the arcade on the boardwalk is Skeeball. The arcade is great, even though it has crappy prizes. Usually I spend time winning lots of tickets and then giving them to my brother -- unless there is a relatively good prize. Like last summer there was these little cat statues and my dad and I were like...we need this. So I played a lot to win them. They're on my bookshelf now.
#8: I love this cute little jewelry/clothing beachy store called Making Waves. I figure that maybe next summer, who knows if it'll actually happen though, I can get a job at the beach and stay with one of our neighbors (we know them all -- you'll learn more in another blog if I remember). So why the heck not get an application!
#9: So random. But doesn't a scavenger hunt sound really fun to do on a boring day? Who am I kidding, CM is never boring. But still.
#10: Get a hermit crab. Now this can go 2 ways. buying the crab w/permission. or somehow buying the crab without parental permission. See we usually get crabs, but it's hard to take care of them and sometimes they die really easily. But I really want one because I love having it! And since my last one died this winter my parents were like, "NO MORE HERMIT CRABS!" So we'll have to see on that one.
#11: This started as a tradition with my next door neighbor in CM. We usually made cookies from cookie dough and then gave them to neighbors. One time we made cookies after they had used the pan to make fish. BIG MISTAKE! And we have cookies that tasted like fish. YUCKY! One time we made chocolate chip eggs. Pretty nasty. I also always used to have sasuage with powdered sugar. Kids eat strange things.
#12: Get a tan is probably the most self explanitory thing on the list. Maybe I should've said: Get a tan without getting burned!
#13: I love, love, love reading in the lifeguard chair. There is just something about doing that, that relaxes me very well.
#14: I get up so early during the school year (6:30 am) and I think it would be fun to get up around that early and watch the sun rise and go on like a morning walk through the town to see what it's like in the early morning hours.
#15: Pearl Street is where our friend with many (appx. 20) cats lives. We always go, but I felt that I needed to put it on the list.
#16: Those people are our neighbors and I keep in contact with them all year so I love visiting with them.
#17: A trip to the beach wouldn't be complete if you didn't bring home at least a pound of shells (sand not included hehe).
Well that's all for this post.
62 days! (unless you're being technical...cause it's the end of today).
So yesterday evening I was really, really bored. Then I was like, "Hey! Let's check the Cape May website." So I was on it. It was 5 degrees cooler there than it is here. SO NOT FAIR! So then I found a link to things that you can do in CM.
BRAIN BLAST! [Sorry for the Jimmy Neutron reference :(]. I decided to make a list of things that I want to do this summer. So I headed up a new microsoft word as things I want to do this summer in CM. I even found a little July calendar to put underneath the title. And so the list began. While this is still a work in progress...because I keep thinking of new things to put...it's a relatively good list!
Things I want to Do
Haunted Cape May Tour (Hotel Macomber)
See Harry Potter 6 (July 17 – Stone Harbor 5)
Visit Lucy the Elephant (B-day Bash July 18-19)
Get a Pina Colada Smoothie from Avalon Bagels
Ride my bike to Avalon Bagels for breakfast
Play Hard & Easy Mini Golf
Skeeball at the Arcade
Get an application to work at Making Waves
Make a Cape May Scavenger hunt for everyone
Get a hermit crab
Make cookies for the neighbors
Get a tan
Read a book in the lifeguard chair
Wake up early & watch the sun rise on the boardwalk
Visit Pearl Street
Visit Denise, Betty and Barbara
Go on a walk on the beach for shells/beach glass
Okay. Now to explain my list.
#1: Cape May does a haunted ghost tour at a hotel nearby our house. It's about a 90 minute tour and you walk a mile. What could be more fun that excercising while getting a tour of your favorite town and possibly learning new things and meeting ghosts! And did I mention it's in the dark? Even better :)
#2: I love Harry Potter and want to see the movie when it comes out. Of course I'll be at the beach. So I spent about 10 minutes googling a movie theatre near CM and there is one in the next town over (stone harbor) and it's about 30 minutes away. Thank you google maps -- yes I googled my CM address to the movie theatre!
#3: Lucy the Elephant is a really cool landmark. it's a big elephant building that you go in! check it out at www.lucytheelephant.org !
#4: There is this great bagel store around the block from our house. It's called avalon bagels. I love getting things from there. Especially a refreshing pina colada smoothie on a 90 degree day!
#5: See above. I love bringing back the bagel to eat on the porch.
#6: Vacation in CM would NOT be complete without playing mini golf. Personally I enjoy the easy (it's not easy, but easier than the other one) mini golf. It has all these fun things there. Such good memories. Tiger woods! And I would like to play at least 1 game at the hard one.
#7: My favorite game to play in the arcade on the boardwalk is Skeeball. The arcade is great, even though it has crappy prizes. Usually I spend time winning lots of tickets and then giving them to my brother -- unless there is a relatively good prize. Like last summer there was these little cat statues and my dad and I were like...we need this. So I played a lot to win them. They're on my bookshelf now.
#8: I love this cute little jewelry/clothing beachy store called Making Waves. I figure that maybe next summer, who knows if it'll actually happen though, I can get a job at the beach and stay with one of our neighbors (we know them all -- you'll learn more in another blog if I remember). So why the heck not get an application!
#9: So random. But doesn't a scavenger hunt sound really fun to do on a boring day? Who am I kidding, CM is never boring. But still.
#10: Get a hermit crab. Now this can go 2 ways. buying the crab w/permission. or somehow buying the crab without parental permission. See we usually get crabs, but it's hard to take care of them and sometimes they die really easily. But I really want one because I love having it! And since my last one died this winter my parents were like, "NO MORE HERMIT CRABS!" So we'll have to see on that one.
#11: This started as a tradition with my next door neighbor in CM. We usually made cookies from cookie dough and then gave them to neighbors. One time we made cookies after they had used the pan to make fish. BIG MISTAKE! And we have cookies that tasted like fish. YUCKY! One time we made chocolate chip eggs. Pretty nasty. I also always used to have sasuage with powdered sugar. Kids eat strange things.
#12: Get a tan is probably the most self explanitory thing on the list. Maybe I should've said: Get a tan without getting burned!
#13: I love, love, love reading in the lifeguard chair. There is just something about doing that, that relaxes me very well.
#14: I get up so early during the school year (6:30 am) and I think it would be fun to get up around that early and watch the sun rise and go on like a morning walk through the town to see what it's like in the early morning hours.
#15: Pearl Street is where our friend with many (appx. 20) cats lives. We always go, but I felt that I needed to put it on the list.
#16: Those people are our neighbors and I keep in contact with them all year so I love visiting with them.
#17: A trip to the beach wouldn't be complete if you didn't bring home at least a pound of shells (sand not included hehe).
Well that's all for this post.
62 days! (unless you're being technical...cause it's the end of today).
Friday, May 8, 2009
Only 63 days away
Hello all! So this is my beach blog and it's only going to be about the beach. It's more like an experiment though! My friends know how obsessed I am with Cape May, New Jersey, and I figure what better way of letting them know all about it then posting it in a blog!
I've been going to CM even before I was born! My mom went while she was pregnant with me. And I go ever summer for at least two weeks. It is my annual vacation and I absolutely love it! When I was younger my parents would sometimes take me more than once a year. Now I only get to be in CM for 14 days a year. Bummer! So the rest of my time is devoted to counting the days down, annoying everyone I know by telling them every detail, or just making collages of my pictures from there.
Cape May is great for a lot of reasons. Whether it's the small town atmostphere or the cute little shops you can find all around town. My favorite shop is Whale's Tale, which is in the Washington Street Mall. I can visualize it perfectly right now. What I'd give to be there! They sell shells, jewelry, Cape May books, postcards, all sorts of kids toys including: books, dolls, stuffed animals, gadgets, etc. There is also a Xmas section in the back.
I think what I love/hate most about Cape May is that we can go there and use make a tank of gas last the whole two weeks! Well...not totally true because we actually leave town to go 1-2 towns over to visit relatives or play on a cool boardwalk in Wildwood. But in CM, everything and when I say everything I really mean everything, is walking distance! I love that everything is walking distance because for the 2 weeks I'm there, we do so much excercise and it's not even a drag! I don't like walking in the hot weather though. That is probably the only downer!
For the last 10 years we have rented a house for the two weeks we are there. For about 8 years we were in the same house, unbelieveably! But then the people decided not to rent their house, so we took to renting the house next door! So the last 2 years we have rented another house. As much as I loved the first house we rented...I love the second house much, much more! Mostly because it has air conditioning! Each house has it's own special charm.
Our current house is spectacular. It has beautiful green awnings and classic beach shingling. There are about 10 steps up to the front of the house. Once you get up the steps you have 2 options: go inside or sit on the lovely porch. If you continue into the house and make an immediate left there is a nice wooden staircase going upstairs. Once you get up all the stairs (don't ever wear slippers and goof off while going down the stairs...nearly broke my leg doing that) there are 6 doors. 4 are our bedrooms, 2 are our bathrooms. The first room on the right is my parents. It has a queen(?) bed and a little pull out couch (yuck...like I'd sleep in that). The mostly have a shady room, but they hear all the annoying people out front. The next room is the "guest room" for us because we usually don't use it unless we have guests! It has one twin bed and one full bed. It's a fairly nice room and it only gets a little sun. Next there are the two bathrooms. Since there are four family members we divide into two to use the potty! My brother and I share a bathroom (like we do at home). It's a nice bathroom that has a window above the shower. The next bathroom over is for my parents. It has a funky shower...kinda small though. Next is my bedroom! It has a queen size bed (bigger than my bed at home and I LOVE it!). It has a vanity/desk, and the first day I always fill it. It has 2 nightstands but I only use one for my iHome. there is one big dresser and I usually fill it all the way! The best feature of the dresser is the TV ON TOP OF IT!!! Yes, there have been some 2 am tv watchings...haha. And of course there is a closet that is only big enough for all my purses! JK - the closet is pretty big. Except we put all the yucky sheets/quilts/pillows from the bed in the closet and I use my own sheets. Last is my brother's room. It has a queen bed and a dresser. it's small but he likes it so there aren't any arguments there!
Well, for my 1st post I don't think that was so bad! I guess next time we talk it can be about cats & best restaurants/what to order!
Tchao!
I've been going to CM even before I was born! My mom went while she was pregnant with me. And I go ever summer for at least two weeks. It is my annual vacation and I absolutely love it! When I was younger my parents would sometimes take me more than once a year. Now I only get to be in CM for 14 days a year. Bummer! So the rest of my time is devoted to counting the days down, annoying everyone I know by telling them every detail, or just making collages of my pictures from there.
Cape May is great for a lot of reasons. Whether it's the small town atmostphere or the cute little shops you can find all around town. My favorite shop is Whale's Tale, which is in the Washington Street Mall. I can visualize it perfectly right now. What I'd give to be there! They sell shells, jewelry, Cape May books, postcards, all sorts of kids toys including: books, dolls, stuffed animals, gadgets, etc. There is also a Xmas section in the back.
I think what I love/hate most about Cape May is that we can go there and use make a tank of gas last the whole two weeks! Well...not totally true because we actually leave town to go 1-2 towns over to visit relatives or play on a cool boardwalk in Wildwood. But in CM, everything and when I say everything I really mean everything, is walking distance! I love that everything is walking distance because for the 2 weeks I'm there, we do so much excercise and it's not even a drag! I don't like walking in the hot weather though. That is probably the only downer!
For the last 10 years we have rented a house for the two weeks we are there. For about 8 years we were in the same house, unbelieveably! But then the people decided not to rent their house, so we took to renting the house next door! So the last 2 years we have rented another house. As much as I loved the first house we rented...I love the second house much, much more! Mostly because it has air conditioning! Each house has it's own special charm.
Our current house is spectacular. It has beautiful green awnings and classic beach shingling. There are about 10 steps up to the front of the house. Once you get up the steps you have 2 options: go inside or sit on the lovely porch. If you continue into the house and make an immediate left there is a nice wooden staircase going upstairs. Once you get up all the stairs (don't ever wear slippers and goof off while going down the stairs...nearly broke my leg doing that) there are 6 doors. 4 are our bedrooms, 2 are our bathrooms. The first room on the right is my parents. It has a queen(?) bed and a little pull out couch (yuck...like I'd sleep in that). The mostly have a shady room, but they hear all the annoying people out front. The next room is the "guest room" for us because we usually don't use it unless we have guests! It has one twin bed and one full bed. It's a fairly nice room and it only gets a little sun. Next there are the two bathrooms. Since there are four family members we divide into two to use the potty! My brother and I share a bathroom (like we do at home). It's a nice bathroom that has a window above the shower. The next bathroom over is for my parents. It has a funky shower...kinda small though. Next is my bedroom! It has a queen size bed (bigger than my bed at home and I LOVE it!). It has a vanity/desk, and the first day I always fill it. It has 2 nightstands but I only use one for my iHome. there is one big dresser and I usually fill it all the way! The best feature of the dresser is the TV ON TOP OF IT!!! Yes, there have been some 2 am tv watchings...haha. And of course there is a closet that is only big enough for all my purses! JK - the closet is pretty big. Except we put all the yucky sheets/quilts/pillows from the bed in the closet and I use my own sheets. Last is my brother's room. It has a queen bed and a dresser. it's small but he likes it so there aren't any arguments there!
Well, for my 1st post I don't think that was so bad! I guess next time we talk it can be about cats & best restaurants/what to order!
Tchao!
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