Time Blurs

Tuesday


Boys off to school (we have to drive them to the bus stop.)  After catching our breath, we headed out as well.  Off to Dennisport and some culture.

We love the salt marches, especially in the fall and especially those with wonderful boardwalks.  Dennisport provided a grand salt marsh experience.  

 

We headed back to catch a great soccer game with many faithful Sturgis parents perched on the tiny bleachers.  Jacob is #13.  He was on the field nearly the entire game and they won, 7-2. 

We left the dogs home together, trusting that they would be able to work it out peacefully.  They did.

 

 Wednesday

Early, early morning to get Lucas off for his jazz band practice.  Everyone up, at 'em and out the door at 6:30, clean soccer clothes, lunches, homework, cell phones, snack for soccer game - whooosh.  We headed out as well, off to Wellfleet on the great Rt. 6.  The first order of business was to find the PB Boulangerie Bistro and have lunch.  Washington Post review of this place said the owners had "inspired the entire town".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081302723.html

Very true.  The entire town was lined up to get inside and the wonderful smells wafting out the door, kept the line faithful.  By the time we got in, all the lunch items were gone so we indulged in wickedly good croissants,  cheese, lemon tart, chocolate eclair and picked out some pastries to take to the boys.  The weather was stunning as we muched our fare outside.  I ate one of the pastries we'd gotten for the boys and shamefully had to go back inside to get another!  We are going back Friday night for my birthday dinner.

We spent the afternoon hiking in the Audubon Society Wildlife Refuge.  It's a lovely, peaceful place with a big diversity of habitats.  Since it was low tide, we took the trail down to the water to look for shore birds, then walked on the Silver Spring trail. We didn't see many birds but the fall wildflowers and mushrooms emerging were visual treats.

We picked the boys up from soccer practice, running here and there and not finding them.  Thank goodness for cell phones.  Reunited, there was just the soft sounds of French pastry and cheese munching from the back seat as we drove home.

Home was only a brief stop, to put on clean shirts and rush back out for a Scout meeting, snarfing Subway subs down on the way.  By 9:00 homework was being done, soccer clothes being washed, trash hauled out for the morning pickup and food organized for the next day.  The boys are incredibly organized.  We are still standing upright.