Kitty Lovin'

I didn't fall asleep last night until about 3 am so I stayed in bed until noon. I talked to mom and then I got up and got dressed. I ate my leftover pigs-in-a-blanket & green beans from dinner last night. It was raining when I left, so I drove to the mall. I looked in Splash and saw some very pretty jewelry! I went to Bathtime and bought a perfume I had smelled there last night that I thought about all night! So I'm looking forward to wearing it :)

I went to the Acme to pick up a few grocery things that I needed and some sushi for dinner. I dropped my groceries off and changed into my Animal Outreach shirt. I stopped at CVS to get some bacitracin ointment for my ear piercing - it feels infected, joy!

I went to Animal Outreach from about 3:15-5:30 pm. I had such a nice time! I got to play with all the same kitties as last time. I met the volunteer who did the morning shift and Eileen who I had met last week when I came in. I helped her feed the cats and then I scooped all the litter boxes! Then I played some more with all of the cats before coming home for dinner.

I had a smorgasbord dinner: sushi, a corn salad, raspberries, green beans and crab fingers. Then I watched the last two episodes of Teen Wolf from last season. I showered and talked to my grandma Genie. Then I had dessert and watched new episodes of Cake Boss and Teen Wolf. I talked to my grandma Zelda and then went upstairs and laid out all my stuff for the conference tomorrow.

I talked to mom and got ready for bed. I have to get up at 7:30 am! Need to be in Wildwood at the Convention center by 8:30 am, so it will be a long but fun day!

xo,
capemaychick

Girl's Lunch!

Today I got up around 10 am and had to get ready quickly to go meet Jenn at Bella Vida by 10:30 am. I got there on time and was waiting for Jenn and sent her a text to let her know I was there and she was going in the direction of the house, oops! We met there and waited a while to be seated. Another couple came in and got seated right away, so we were wondering why we hadn't been seated already! There were a few open tables. I was hungry too, since I didn't eat before I went. The hostess thought for some reason we wanted a booth! Weird, but we got seated. They were very busy!

I tried something new - I know I know, branching out :) with the breakfast burrito. It was tasty. Then again, everything at the beach is tasty! We came back to the house and sat on the porch for a while.  Jenn gave me the most adorable blue shell post it cubes, a pair of anchor earrings and a blue anchor bracelet - so totally me, love them! We talked for a while before Jenn left.

I went to Swain's Ace Hardware to pick up some toilet scrubbing brushes (super fun right?) that we had ordered. I put some money in the meter and then went to the mall. I looked around and saw so much more cute stuff. I still haven't been to all my favorite stores yet! I wandered into Tina's photography shop and spent some time chatting with her.

I came home and watered the flowers. The petunias are drooping. I'm such a crap flower lady, it's the cats' fault! They're having a hard time with the sun I guess. I also broke the corroded handle off the hose - good job right? At least we have a handy man who can fix it.

Super corroded and dirty from being outside at the beach! At least we can get it fixed - I felt so bad!

I walked around the corner to my neighbor Barbara's, who I have known for quite a few years. I write with her regularly during the year! I'm going to check in on her cat this week while she goes down to her grandson's elementary school graduation -- see, I'm always in the market for pet sitting cats no matter what state I'm in!

I came home, scrapbooked for a while. I was doing a book about our cat May who passed away last August. It made me really sad and realized how much I miss her! It's so weird not having her but I've almost gotten used to her not being around which made me feel terrible. I'll go snuggle with the cats at Animal Outreach tomorrow which will make me feel better. They have tabbies there like May so it's like her spirit is following me. I watched Long Island Medium while I did my scrapbooking - had to catch up on last week's shows!  I made myself dinner and chatted with mom while I did so. I had homemade pigs in a blanket and green beans. I did laundry afterwords and then sat out on the porch while I talked to both my grandmothers.

Then I watched new episdoes of Long Island Medium and Breaking Amish while writing in my Cape May journal and texting Malia. SOO excited for her to come up, it isn't soon enough! I found out while I was watching TV that Theresa Caputo (Long Island Medium) is coming to Atlantic City at the end of June while I'm still here. I really, really want to go. It would be amazing if my grandpa or great aunt came through! I don't know if she was doing like huge readings or what because it's a big theater. I hope I can go, but the tickets are super expensive so it's probably not going to happen.

I did dishes, laundry and got ready for bed. Tomorrow I will go to the post office, the Acme, Animal outreach and maybe the mall. I also have to get ready for the beach writers' conference!

xo,
capemaychick

Strawberry Festival // Wildwood

I woke up this morning around 11 ish am and had a lazy time getting out of bed! I got up and talked to mom on Facebook chat. Bill had the wicker furniture out back and he told me he was leaving. He also said my neighbor Barbara said I could come by - I am looking forward to seeing her.

It was a nice and sunny day, no rain date needed - but glad they had one just in case!

I had a bowl of cereal and left at 12:30 pm to go print photos at CVS. I walked around CVS while I waited for my photos and then I also picked up a really cute beach ball nail file manicure set and a ginger ale. I left my car in the lot and went across the street to the Strawberry Festival! I went to the Bliss tent to see Nicole and her girls. I took Sage and Hudson over to the Cape May Crab Cake tent to get them sandwiches. Then I went to the Empanada Mamas and picked up my lunch - walnut hummus empanada, strawberry rhubarb empanada and a strawberry cheesecake empanada (the best!). I hung out with Nicole for a while and had a strawberry honey ice cream - soo good. I'm not a strawberry ice cream person because I think it tastes too processed but obviously Nicole's doesn't since it is homemade.

The empanadas came with strawberry dipping sauce.

Then my friend Lori and her daughters Jana and Mara joined me at the festival! Lori went to law school with my dad and she is a great family friend! Love to talk to her on Facebook :) We walked around the festival. I picked up fresh squeezed lemonade. They had strawberry lemonade but I felt like I was going to OD on strawberries.

picture perfect day!

We went back to the house and got ready to head to the beach around 4 pm. It was SO nice on the beach - windy and breezy, almost chilly. We left to go to Zoe's Beach Front Eatery for dinner. I had the fish special which was fantastic - mom reminded me that the people who owned our favorite restaurant Henry's (which our cat Henry is appropriately named for) are the owners of Zoe's. No wonder the fish sandwich was so good - I used to get it all the time at Henry's, so that made me happy.

We walked back to the house and decided to go to the Wildwood boardwalk - which Lori had never been to! It's kind of a crazy boardwalk, lots of teenagers, interesting outfits and crazy shops. Everyone should experience it at least once! Warning - WATCH THE TRAM CAR!! Oh and about 2 hours is about enough there if you're wondering!

I'm totally into mushrooms. They're fashion while yummy!

We parked by the Doo Wop museum and went into a few stores. I was looking for my good jewelry store. I found it - it's called Casino Jewelry. They sell the Beijo Brasil earrings I adore, for $5 less than at Terry Ivory (one of my other fave jewlery stores). So I got a cute pair of mushroom earrings that I had even seen and liked at Terry Ivory! I also found a cute pair of mushroom studs by one of my other favorite brands - Indigo. We had yummy funnel cake on the boardwalk too.

We came back and sat in the kitchen for a while. We said good bye and Lori, Jana and Mara left since they have a little over an hour to drive back. I cleaned up a few things, talked to both grandmas and moms and then I showered and went to bed!

xo,
capemaychick

Millions of Pillows // Flowers

I woke up around 10:30 am when my alarm went off, but stayed in bed until 11:30 am. I Facebook messaged with mom until noon and then I went down for lunch. I had a hot dog and chatted with Bill. He finished painting the backyard steps, shower and the basement door.

I did some laundry and watched Full House/Say Yes to the Dress. I left the house around 2:30 pm for Walmart. I bought 12 pillows (NOT EASY, they kept falling out and people looked at me like I was nuts. Then I went to Michael's and bought two jars for my beach glass and shells and a pack of mini cards for embossing. For the house I bought two small coffee cup flower planters! Then I left Rio Grande to go to Wildwood.

Shells in the jar to the left, beach glass to the right.

I drove by the convention center where the writing conference will be next week. Then I went to the Ravioli house and bought a bag of cheese ravioli, 2 rainbow cookies and a brownie. Then I ended


up driving home on the parkway even though I would've liked to go the other way. I got up and unloaded. Then I drove to Duckie's Farm and bought two small Lavender variety flowers for the small coffee cup pots and two hanging baskets that I unclipped for our blue pots. I went to the Lobster House after and got crab fingers, mustard dipping sauce and bread. I brought it home and put it away. Then I put out the flowers in the pots. I had a cottage cheese and pretzel/port wine snack.

I couldn't get matching coffee cup pots because the other butterfly one had a chip in it, but these are super cute.

My next door neighbor Betty called me over - she and her husband Jim were home from their trips and she had a letter addressed to me from Lindsay! I think it had been there for a while too, oh well! At least I got it. I walked around the corner and dropped off a note for Barbara - she got in later tonight. Hopefully I'll catch her soon.

The flowers in the little coffee cups are a lavender variety, the big coffee cup is petunias and the bottom two are geraniums.

I had the ravioli, crab fingers and corn on the cob for dinner while I watched The Show with Vinny. Then I went to poverty beach for about 40-45 minutes for a walk/shell hunt. I only found moonies. I saw a dead shark! A couple people were fishing but other than that it was very quiet. I drove down to Morrow's Nut House and bought a fridge magnet pad for the house. I drove home and did dishes, laundry and watched I found the Gown and talked to both grandmas. I face timed mom for a while and then got ready for bed.

SO excited for tomorrow. Lori and her daughters are coming down and we are going to the West Cape May Strawberry Festival! And on Sunday I'm having a girls lunch with my cousin Jenn :)

xo,
capemaychick

Kitty Playtime

I woke up at 10:30 am to my alarm clock. Bill was in the kitchen working and I had a bowl of special K and raspberries for breakfast. Then, I left for Animal Outreach. There I met Charlotte, who our friend Harry told me to ask about volunteering. She was so nice! She showed me all of the rooms and asked what I was interested in doing at the center. I think some afternoons I will come by and help scoop/clean the litter boxes and just play with the kitties!

A huge collage of all the kitties!

I got to meet 9 cats in the first room. Jasmine (dilute tortie), Martha (spunky tabby), Cricket (tabby), Marmalade (orange), George (tabby), Katrina, Cuddles, Bess and Checka - whose colors I totally forget! I played with them for quite a while. They have a wonderful room with lots of places to sleep and curl up. They even have a tv with birds on it!

The next room was two little kittens who played with a toy. Then I went to the new comer room and met Nigel (beautiful black boy) and Maggie (dilute tortie) who both played a bit. I discovered Nigel LOVED to drink from the sink spout and that was just adorable. Then I met Patches, who stays in the back room of the facility (she's a calico). Finally, I met the kitties in the front: Kali (dilute calico who is polydactyl), Sylvia (black and white who is polydactyl and Kali's sister), Jennie (calico) and Chrissy (black and white). They got to come out and play and they just loved to sit and stare out the window!

The facility is just gorgeous and I can't wait to stop in and sport my new Animal Outreach adoption t-shirt! I was there for about two hours in the morning/afternoon. I would have stayed all day if I hadn't been hungry! I came home for lunch and ate leftover chicken - there is still some left but I think it's too old now. Then I went to our friend Nicole's house and got to hang out with her and her kids, Sage, Hudson and Aria! It's really cool to be close with people out in Cape May, it gives you a great sense of community. Our friend Tina who owns a photography shop on the mall, introduced us to Nicole a few years ago and Nicole's husband Mike helped us with buying our house! They own Bliss - the best ice cream place in Cape May (and probably ever too).

I had dinner with them too - a yummy turkey sandwich from the Bliss shop! I was there until a little after 10 pm so I eventually headed home, showered and got into bed. Spoke with mom and grandma Zelda. It was a nice day.

Tomorrow is Friday and I have some errands to run including a trip up to Walmart and running into Wildwood! I can't believe how fast the time is going. There wasn't time to be lonely yesterday at all. On Saturday I will have been in Cape May for a week (week one out of six) and on Monday it will be a week since I've been alone.

I'm looking forward to Saturday - I'm going to the Strawberry Festival in the afternoon, and then my friend Lori is coming down with her daughters to hang out and go out to dinner, which will be a nice time!

xo,
capemaychick

Blue Eden // Sunny Shores

I woke up on and off this morning from Bill working on the house. Mom called me at 11:25 am and I was still in bed - lazy,  I know. We talked for a while and facetimed for a bit. Then I got up, dressed and came down. There was a package on the table at the bottom of the stairs - so Bill must have brought it in! It was from Lindsay! She sent me an easy cook book, notecards, "it had to be blue" nailpolish, an iTunes giftcard (to catch up on my shows I miss) and a sweet note :) Shout out to Lindsay, thanks for making my day start great girl! Love you!

Thanks L! Can't wait to use everything!

Lindsay sent it yesterday from her grandpop's house in PA, so it was very fast that it came today! It made me feel good. I texted her and my mom about it while I had a bowl of rice crispies with raspberries. I updated my blog and also posted a Wordless Wednesday post on Sandpiper Cat Blog. I got ready to head up to Stone Harbor. It only took about 20~ minutes to get there on the Parkway.

I got to my friend Caroline's store, Blue Eden, at about 1:30 pm. It was so nice to see her, I haven't seen her since December! She greeted me warmly and gave me a hug, and introduced her friend Jenna - who makes all the beautiful beach glass jewelry in Caroline's store! She sounds like she could make my red beach glass into a ring, which would be really cool.

Left to Right: The bracelets from Blue Eden, Blue Eden Store, Sandpiper Necklace from Terry Ivory.

I talked to Caroline and Jenna for a while and spent a good while looking around the store, it is adorable and everything in it is so chic and beach-y fun! I settled on two bracelets - made by Jenna! One silver and one copper, each with a little bead and a piece of white beach glass. Very fun!

After saying good byes, I put some more quarters in the parking meter and looked in Making Waves and then Terry Ivory, where I bought a beautiful Sandpiper bird necklace, because it reminds me of my cat Piper (who is actually named Sandpiper). After that, I left to go home and got there about 3:30 pm. I ate lunch - a turkey and cheese sandwich on yummy hoagie bread. I got ready to go to the beach, it was sunny, 80 degrees out and just gorgeous!

I drove down to the new Exit Zero store, because I wanted to make it before they closed. I bought the May issue of Exit Zero Magazine, because my neighbor Denise's late husband is featured in an article! I bought three postcards to send to friends. I then hopped across the street, put quarters in the meter and took a short walk on Perry Street beach. I also found some great shells, MORE moonies (I really never have found quite this many) and a small piece of brown beach glass, a small conch and a BIG conch - which I have never found. I've heard they are usually easier to find in the winter when the beach isn't crowded. I'm totally kicking myself for not going on the beach in December or March when I was here. Clearly I will next time! I read my latest book - Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich and then left about 5:30 pm because I was paranoid my meter would run out. I got a cheesesteak to go from Louie's Pizza and went home.

I brought in the trash can, put my cheesesteak away, facetimed with dad and his secretary Janet (who is very jealous I'm at the beach, can't imagine why ;) and turned on the air conditioning via dad's instructions. Since most of the windows aren't finished, I can't open them for a sea breeze.

Then I brought my cheesesteak out on the porch with a peach salad and read my book. Bill came by to put the storm windows in or something. I have no idea. I'm sleeping in the master/parent bed room because he is going to work in the rooms tomorrow. After dinner I came inside to watch Melissa and Joey, Baby Daddy and Psych (which I missed because I spent some time talking with mom). I also spoke with Grandma Genie and Grandma Zelda! It's nice to hear everyone's voices. Tomorow I will skype with Lindsay.

I got showered and ready for bed. Tomorrow I am going to go to Animal Outreach in the morning to find out about volunteering and cuddling cats as well as heading to Wildwood to get some noms from the Ravioli House and driving by the Wildwood Convention center where my beach conference will be next week.

Thanks for the support!

xo,
capemaychick

All by myself? // the time I almost went to college

*Side note before you read my long post - we started a Facebook page for our house so visit it here: Cool Cat Cottage.

It's been a whirlwind of a day, with lots of emotions. I got up, dressed and had cereal. We worked on putting things away in the house and clarifying some of the things I will need to do before I leave for our renters the second week of June. Dad showed me things in the owner's closet in the basement, and how to use a skeleton key (difficult!!) to look our upstairs owner's closet. Our do-it-all-NJ house-guy, Bill, came by today. He has a lot of projects to do. Including coming early tomorrow morning to work on my windows. So since I don't want to scare him and he doesn't want to scare me, we agreed it would be best if I sleep in one of the other rooms while he is working in mine. It will be nice to have screens back in the windows and be able to open them.

We went to Bella Vida for lunch. Surprisingly it wasn't too busy. I tried something different, since I don't have to worry that we won't get back to try something different! A good thing about owning the beach house, more opportunity to branch out (and hopefully not just food related, though I know a great deal of my blogs are oriented around food!). So I had a waffle with banana, chocolate chips, walnuts and powdered sugar. And a side of the New Jersey delicacy - scrapple - and if you don't know what that is, don't ask. And definitely don't search it up.

Afterwards we went to Swain's Ace Hardware to pick up some cleaning products. I'll have to go back there next Saturday or whenever they get in our toilet bowl cleaners. Apparently CM was having a shortage on them?? We came home afterwards and did more packing and cleaning/organizing. I finished my book. We popped over to our friends Ron and Shelia's house, to say hi.They were getting their house ready for renters. They might be up when we're all here.

We came home and mom, dad and Michael finished packing. We had a very short and calm goodbye - probably sort of what my college goodbye should have been, except that there was no goodbye because I came home. I know that will impact me the rest of my life - despite already being at the college I wanted to go to (GMU). It still had that college abandonment feeling - but not until later.

I left shortly after them, to go to the Acme to get some food. I got lost going there, but was able to figure it out. I felt stupid getting lost because it's a place I've gone to a million times - though I have never driven there which is probably a big reason why. But I was in and out in 45 minutes, which was pretty fast considering the deli was so busy and probably took at least 10 minutes! I even got some healthy food :) but seriously I'm trying to be good since I'm at the beach and want to walk everywhere (well not really but I don't have a lot of choices) and want to lose some weight this summer. I came home, unpacked and ate some sushi I picked up at the Acme. I also marinated the chicken breasts I bought in Italian dressing, for dinner.

Clockwise starting upper left: Me marinating chicken, air plant & buttons, dinner while watching My Cat From Hell, Clara Beau Necklace.

I put on my sneakers and headed over to the mall. It was a really nice temperature out today, it if stayed around 70 degrees all summer I would be so happy! One of my favorite jewelry stores, Splash, was closed, so I went into my other fave jewelry store Henry's. I had been in March and they didn't really have many more different things. I really like their Alex and Ani bracelets, but think I will hold off until I go to Stone Harbor to shop. You never know what I will find and I don't want to blow my budget too fast. I did that two years ago and didn't have any money for a big portion of the trip. Live and learn. I save so much of my pet sitting money to buy things in Cape May, I have to be careful how I spend it as well as making sure I do save some for the rest of the summer in Virginia.

I went into Whale's Tale and found a new jewelry designer they just started carrying, called Clara Beau. I got a cute little anchor necklace. I also went over to Across the Way and picked up an air plant and a little bird glass to keep it in (I've wanted one of these plants forever) and a few buttons (my fave!).

I came home and put the chicken in the oven, since mom said it could take up to an hour to make. It only took a half an hour. I guess you never know with the oven here. The chicken came out great. I put it on top of the salad I made, with croutons and Parmesan cheese and dressing. I also had corn on the cob. It was really good, but I definitely got a wave of "I want mom" while I was eating. I don't really cook for myself since I live at home. I occasionally make the pot of mac and cheese but nothing like chicken. My mom showed me how to make the chicken last week at home so I would have easy meals for the beach. I also had lots of leftovers that will be good. Trying to eat healthy. I had bought a lemon meringue pie to have a slice of for dessert, but I didn't feel up to it. Whenever I'm stressed beyond normal standards I have trouble eating. And you know if it involves not eating dessert, it's serious. I think that living here by myself will just take some adjustment.I really, really haven't lived away from my parents for more than 4-5 days at a time - when they are in Cape May and I'm at home taking care of the cats and Michael. So it's obviously a culture shock to me.

I messaged with my friend Lindsay and she reminded me that it's a process and I have to get used to it. It was kind of funny to me that just eating a home cooked meal would trigger those anxiety feelings. I haven't felt like that really since I was trying to move into my dorm last August. It's like, after all that work moving in and getting all settled in, shouldn't I just put my best foot forward and stay? I knew staying at Longwood was not going to happen - I knew it all along. I think my parents knew too but they couldn't not make me try. And trust me, they did everything in their right minds to make me stay. I'm still grateful for that and all my friends and family who messaged me and stood behind me. It helped a lot, but I knew I wasn't going to stay.

So will it be the same with Cape May? It's funny sort of. To think that I don't want to be in my favorite place in the whole world. No, that's not really it. I just don't want to be alone here. And I'm not really alone because when I'm not doing something, I have a neighbor calling and checking in on me and my family texting me. It's not really as big of a deal as I'm making it. I mean my goodness it's only the first night! I do think that by not staying at Longwood, I lost some of my ability to deal with being totally on my own issues.  I know I'm not always going to live at home - and I'm definitely feeling ready to move out, but there are a lot of factors why I'm not ready yet.

So this post totally strayed from Cape May in a sort of non related venting session. But I think it's good for my friends and family to understand what I'm going through. Anxiety is a really hard thing to control, and as much as I have it together - I don't always have it together. But being able to write about it keeps me in check. I'm not perfect, my anxiety isn't perfect, but day by day I'm able to get through. Some days it's a struggle and other days it's a trip to the beach.

I actually have some plans for tomorrow, so make sure you check back!

Miss you mom, dad and Michael. Thank you for a beautiful beach house and the opportunity to stay here. I miss you lots. Give the kitties a pat for me. :)

xo,
capemaychick/Rachel

Mocca Chocolata

The title of this post is one of my favorite lines from the song Lady Marmalade, which I've heard in a few movies and happened to hear this morning on 98.7 The Coast - which is my favorite radio station in Cape May.

Since last night was a late night, it was a late morning. I fell asleep and woke up listening to 98.7 The
 
Coast, which was nice. I got up at noon and had a bagel for lunch. We worked on putting stuff away in the house.

Cheetah print (what else would it be for the Cool Cat Cottage) coffee planter!

Later on in the afternoon, we walked over to the mall to Bliss. We had a really good turkey and avocado sandwhich and I had a chocolate covered strawberry smoothie. Mom and dad had affigatos - which is espresso and ice cream. That was delicious! We spent time talking to our friend Nicole (who owns Bliss).

I went to Making Waves and bought cute Anchor/whale earrings that I had seen on their Facebook page, and a little sign that says "Mermaids Welcome." I also popped into Across the Way, but it was too busy to browse. I really had to go to the bathroom and between the two bathrooms at the mall, one was overflowing and the other was closed, so I ran home. I ran in flip flops so my feet are killing me tonight.

I showered and got dressed before dad and I went out to Walmart. It was a very poorly laid out store, so finding ANYTHING took forever. They didn't even have everything we needed. Like 3 ply toilet paper! My favorite things that we got were a coffee cup planter with flowers, a hello kitty pin wheel and a leopard fly swatter. Oh, and Cover Girl flamed out mascara! We got a grill too, which is what we primarily came for.

On the way home, we picked up really yummy Chinese food from The Cape Orient. Yum! Afterwards we lounged around, cleaned up and got ready for bed.

I can't believe everyone is leaving tomorrow and I will be all alone!

xo,
capemaychick

♫ On the Way to Cape May ♪

I had every intention of getting up at 9:30 am to get ready for the beach. But of course, I couldn't wake up. I fell asleep around 2-2:30 am, with sweet dreams of Cape May floating around my head. I woke up at 11 am, but not frazzled because I knew we hadn't planned on leaving until around 2-3 pm so we would beat traffic.

In all reality, I should have assumed that we weren't "together enough" to get out of the house before 5 pm. And though we got out at 4:48 pm, it was clear we were in for a long trip. We had an early lunch so we could have an early dinner.

I packed up my car, completely by myself! I regret that I over packed, but now that I'm here I know I can send some stuff home with my parents on Monday.

Yes, I blurred out my license plate :) and YES that is dad in the background! Oopsies.

We were on the road (with dad driving my car and mom driving her car). Michael went with mom and I went with dad. We stopped in Bowie, MD for a bathroom break at Barnes and Noble. Michael picked up the next book in his series.

Dad I fidgeted with the GPS navigation voice. We tested American Jack and American Jill, British Emily & Daniel and Australian Lady (I forget her name) and Australian Lee - who we settled on. Not before I tried putting the GPS in Romanian and then French-Canadien Julie!

We got to Holly's about 6:30 pm. Our regular server wasn't there!! We all had the fried chicken special and it was extra delicious. We were out about 7:30 pm. It was a long drive from there; we stopped a few times in Delaware to pee and rest. Dad and I stopped at the Wawa before going home to get ice, milk and half-and-half. We got to the house at 11:10 pm. It was hard to see the painting and new awnings, but we know it's there! We also bumped into our next door neighbors and chatted with them. A bug promptly flew down my shirt while we were talking. Why does that happen to me! Shudder.

We unpacked, checked out things around the house. It's definitely a mess. Lots of cleaning is in my future! We also might need a new table, but we have to figure that out tomorrow.

Once I got everything unpacked, showered and ready for bed, I realized how incredibly exhausted I was. But despite that, I still wanted to get a blog post out! Tomorrow dad and I will run over to Walmart and pick up some important things. Lots of house errands to do, but hopefully we can fit in a quick walk to the beach and the mall!

xo, capemaychick