lobster tails...cape cod part 2

there are so many reasons to visit cape cod. our family goes every year, late september/early october.

opa gets very...frustrated if anything gets in the way of his cape cod trip. (including a certain daughter who decided to get married on october 24th. that particular year, he left for the cape on october 25th)

one of our must stop places is lambert's.

there's quite a few in massachusetts. the lamberts themselves are related, but each little market is separately owned.

and even though it's not the closest one to where we stay, the one in sandwich, ma is the one i prefer.

it's the one that has lobster tails

layer upon layer of crunchy pastry...

filled with a not-too-sweet pastry cream....

oh my.

lobster tails, people. FORGET the ones in the ocean. you want THESE.

oh, sure, they have other things...
sandwiches i hear are quite tasty...

cape cod chips (of course). and you can visit the factory in hyannis (free samples! yum!)

but really, it's all about the lobster tails.

but all good things must come to an end. and so we head home, but on our way, we stop in mystic, ct, for a slice of heaven.

the downtown area is beautiful, like something straight out of a movie (haha)

of course, when baby bear spied this in the window of a shop:

and yelled "MOMMY", well...it kind of tells you something...

unfortunately, after that it was back to reality.
home again, home again jiggity jig.
:-)

rain, mobsters, thrills & spills...a cape cod tale

ahhh...cape cod in the fall.

so relaxing. and, unfortunately for us this year, so rainy.

that's not to say we didn't have fun anyway.

there was lobster night. a night of terror, in which seven of these crustaceans met their doom.

little man looooovvveeess him some lobsters.

baby bear wasn't so sure about the "mobsters".

keeping a wary eye on the bag

there was much reading done. i got through these two books and can't wait to read the third (thanks to a recommendation from you, miss ana)

(link to sandra gulland's website)

we did much eating, and browsing, and eating, and shopping...and eating....and much sleeping.

there was excitement of course, thanks to these:

a tumble down the whole flight with a nice head bump, followed by much puking, earned baby bear her first head CT. all was fine, however (thankfully)

and our last day and night on the cape were glorious. perfect cape weather--cool, yet warm, breezy and just all around wonderful. we headed to the beach for some play, a fire and an amazing sunset.

followed by...eating.

come back tomorrow for part two of our trip, including what may be my absolute favorite part of cape cod!



home again home again jiggity jig

miss me?


i was away.


enjoying some of this:

and then we had a little of this:

(not me...my cousin and her new hub)

but i'm back now.
your regularly scheduled programming will now resume.
:0)



come on...did anybody miss me???