Time on the Cape!

It was definitely an amazingly appreciated weekend after too much travel for D and shift work for S to have the gift of using a colleague's Cape Cod cottage for a getaway.

S and I got in on Friday night and caught up on all things important like Dateline exclusives as we munched on Doritos and slugged down soda.

We worked off the junk food on Saturday hiking around Marconi Beack and the Fort Hill trails. Read: Beautiful! except for this terrible sighting of a dismembered bird carcass. I am sorry, but I had to write it down, because this is one of those memories that we'll be able to laugh about for years. Picture the Red Maple Swamps on a beautiful day, side-by-side with the most picturesque New England marshlands in God's own country, and then, yeah, D almost steps on huge dead bird.

Next we watched some college football - an actually exciting game between Northwestern and Michigan State - at The Red Barn, where S had a buffalo chicken sub and I relished a Meditterrean style pizza. Next door at "The Gift Barn" we picked up a Christmas ornament and a 300 piece puzzle (we are puzzle enthusiasts, but can get over our heads a bit sometimes with those 1000 piecers...).

Then off to Provincetown, where we window shopped, took another stroll on a freeeezing cold beach (barefoot for me!) and of course got more munchies. Mocha lattes and caramels at a place called the Purple Feather (How could you not?!) and then pepperoni pizza for S and a greek salad for me at the more down-to-earth George's. We got to see crazy Halloween actors and a lounge singer in a window serenading tourists with show tunes from the Wizard of Oz. It was awesome.

Next, dag-nabbit!, we finished that puzzle while watching SNL, then we snuggled in at the cottage to watch Anchorman, which granted, was funnier the second time around. We both love Steve Carrell's impersonation of a severely mentally handicapped weatherman. C'mon.

The next day it was an intense round of Apples to Apples (we must remember to bring this game to Thanksgiving) and a lunch of ribs and eggplant for the veggie at the Marconi Grille.

It was an incredible mini-vacation that I think can get us through the next month. Though, its without a doubt clear that a Turkey Day Countdown is strictly imperative. 32 DAYS TO GO!