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Got back from a week in Cape Cod and Boston ... 4th of July in Boston is awesome =)

This'll be a good occasion for using the extended entry i'd say.

Don't know how much detail I will go into since ... well, I am impatient and don't want to sit here typing and remembering for an hour. Anyways ... here goes.

Saturday was a big fat waste of a day ... not only did i get about 4 hours of sleep and wake up at 5:30, but then I got to sit on planes and buses all damn day. We got to Cape Cod at about 10:00 EDT after leaving home at about 8:30 their time ... i sure wish somebody would hurry up and invent the teleporter ... cuz you sure waste a lot of time in transit.

Sunday we didn't have too much time since we got up late and my sister had to work that night. We basically drove around and saw the town of Falmouth, where we were staying. To be nice the rest of the family decided to go eat at my sisters restaurant to see her, and so we had to eat fairly mediocre mexican meal. I guess we are just spoiled here in CA.

Monday we finally got rolling and did a full day driving tour of the entire cape which ended at the tip of the cape in Province Town. Along the way we counted the bagillion ice cream parlors in every town ... no wonder east coasters are such fatties, there is an ice cream shop and dunkin' donuts on every corner! That night we decided to continue to sit on our asses and watch Charlies Angels: Full Throttle, which despite being fun is still quite lame. I was pretty disappointed because I actually thought the first film was suprisingly fresh and worked well, but the only thing worth watching in this film is Bernie Mac.

Tuesday we hit up Martha's Vineyard, which basically ended up being another driving tour. We were seriously contemplating renting bikes or mopeds, but the guy we were going to rent from basically said "take the mopeds and you will probably die!" So for the sake of mom and sis we did the jeep thing, which was probably just as nice. When we got back from touring around the island we met up with a group of my sisters friends, had dinner, and then magically ended up a bar 'til 1 AM. After drinking the whole night I actually got to take my first breathalizer test ... 2 large shots + 6 rum & coke + 2 large rum punch = 0.078 :)

Wednesday we split up a bit ... my dad and I did some sea kayaking in some of the bays around the Falmouth while my mom and sis went out to the beach. right before returning the sea kayaks I was messing about and flipped my kayak ... that is a mistake. you would think its easy to flip them back over and just hop back in, but no, they actually fill with water very quickly and you pretty much have to take them out of the water to drain them. Luckily I was right by the shore, but if you were actually out a ways this would be a serious pain. blah blah ... tired of the details now.

maybe i'll finish up later.

Posted by agilliland at July 6, 2003 11:57 AM