Weekend at the Cape

A little while back Adam and I got a chance to stay for a few days at Cape Cod. We went down on a Thursday night and stayed in the town of Brewster where we sampled their delicious ice creams. We spent Friday down in Falmouth/Woods Hole and visited the aquarium where our good friend Keith Love was interning for part of the summer. We then took an evening ferry over to Martha's Vineyard and explored the towns of Vineyard Haven and Oaks Bluff. Lots of cool shops and restaurants. Saturday we went to the beach in the morning and then rented a sail boat for the afternoon. It had been a while since Adam had done any sailing so needless to say the first half an hour on our BeetleCat were a little scary. I will give him some credit though, not only was the water incredibly choppy, but there was some sort of sailboat racing going on which, being in the middle of it, didn't calm our nerves. Once he got the hang of it, we were cruising but still praying for our hour to be over! We spent our Sunday closer to the tip of the cape in a town called Wellfleet. I rented a surf board and surfed most of the day while enjoying the beach and the great dunes on the Atlantic coast. It was another great summer weekend. Next time I hope to see Nantucket, too!

That water's right and the weather's perfect...

Adam goes fishing a lot more than I do, but I got lucky and was able to take a little day trip out on the lake with Wells and Adam. I didn't technically catch anything, but the fish that Adam's holding in the pic below was definitely supposed to be mine.

LA for the Fourth

One of the great perks of my job is that I get to travel to a bunch of places I've never been to. My first solo trip to scope out a hotel was to LA and just happened to be the same time as the Rev's game against LA, July 4th. We decided to turn this trip into a mini-vacation and we couldn't have had more fun. We had breakfast with one of Adam's old bandmates, I got to see Adam score two goals against LA while visiting with his family, the Vogel's, and we also got to stay in one of Hollywood's most famous hotels, the Hollywood Roosevelt. We were in a crazy modern room that had such a great view of Hollywood Blvd and all of the crazies that pass by the minute. The last night we were there, we decided to check out the rooftop pool and who do we see? Matthew Perry and Tara Reid (not together, of course). I rented a car while we were out there, so we visited a few beaches, Manhattan and Malibu, both beautiful. I think Manhattan beach was my favorite -- there's all kinds of great restaurants and shops that lead up to the beach. To top off the trip, it just so happened that my family the Holland's were out visiting my cousin Mary, so we connected with them and sampled some of the best fro-yo I've ever had. I don't know how I'd like living in LA, but I sure loved visiting!