Our Big New England Adventure - Part II

It was time to leave beautiful Buckland, so we all piled into the van and drove down to visit the Jurentkuffs in Cape Cod. A cute, little cottage sitting right on the water -- how can you go wrong?

We got there just in time for lunch. Emerson loved the corn in case you couldn't tell.

Hey Dad, get your own corn cob. This one's taken.

The next day after arriving, it was time to hit the beach. The awesome thing about the Cape house is the beach is right there when you step out the door. Ahhhh. And when you have your own private beach why do you even need to wear clothes? Exactly.

Bare baby bum. When it's that cute, you just have to let it all hang out.

Here are the men getting acquainted with the local wildlife.

                                                                                



Gram J and Emerson spent some good quality time together during our visit. Here they are checking out the beautiful garden.

We were hoping to break in Emerson's life jacket, but unfortunately the boat ended up being out of commission the whole time we were there.. So this is as close as we got. Just a little jaunt down to the dock.

My parents, brother and his wife drove up to hang out at the Cape which was great. They weren't able to stay very long so we had a lot to cram in. We borrowed the town's best tour guide (Gramp J) and  We started off at the Nobska lighthouse. After taking a few requisite photos in front of the sign, I walked up the hill with Emerson to go check out the view from the top. Only to be denied by the security guard. "I'm sorry, we just closed for the day." Oh. But then as I walked away, it dawned on me.... it's only 11:00 in the morning! What kind of crazy hours do they have that they're already closed and it's not even lunchtime? Grumble, grumble.

Then we went to the town of Woods Hole and explored their Fisheries Laboratory. This is the largest lobster caught. I had to google the details because I'd forgotten. His name was "Big George" and he was caught back in 1974. And here comes the impressive factoid -- he weighed a whopping 37.4 lbs. I would need a lot of butter for that. It's hard to see here in the picture Emerson and I are doing our crustacean impression. There is a crab in one of his favorite books and when I read it I always make little pincers with my fingers and say, "I pinch, I pinch." So I was really tickled when Emerson did his little pinching fingers when we came up to the display.

That night we all spent some nice, quality time by the chiminea in the front yard toasting marshmallows.

Emerson and Kohda really bonded on our trip. Here they are wanting to be let outside.

They hated to be left out of the action.

I love this picture because it looks like they're both laughing over some hilarious inside joke together.

The swan song of the Cape trip is always the lobster feast at the end. What a way to end a great visit!

I should just play it off for the sake of a good picture caption, but no, Emerson did not get his own lobster. He did get some good nibbles though.

The boy loves his corn.

Here is Emerson practicing to sniff. I say practicing because while he seemed to understand the concept --seemed to get that this is what you do to flowers-- he just couldn't get the part where you breathe IN when you sniff. So he kept walking up to the flowers and basically snorting at them.

Just a random day hanging out at the house. It was so nice out we just let him go native. He had a great time running back and forth between the tubs filled with water. Scooping water out of one, and running to dump it into the other one.

I don't even remember what exactly about it was making him crack up so much, but he was clearly having a great time.

And then of course, we have to have a couple more corn pictures. He was really digging on the corn for some reason on this trip. And it was just hilarious to watch him go all Porky Pig on it. This last feast was a full body experience.

What a wonderful time. The last day of our Cape trip, Gramp and Gram J were kind enough to watch Emerson so that JD and I could escape to Martha's Vineyard for the day. Next stop, the Vineyard!