Chatham

We headed down to Chatham for a few days for a mini-vacation. We stayed at my aunt's house which is a perfect "Cape" house, close to the beach! We didn't really have any major plans besides going to the beach and potentially playing mini-golf.

We got down there Wednesday morning and once we dropped stuff off at the house & changed into bathing suits, we headed to the beach. Since Alexander had gone to the beach earlier in the week with Mimi & Papi, he was pretty excited to go. Once we got there, he couldn't wait to go down to the water. He loved putting his feet in & have Mommy or Daddy build castles that he would knock over. When Mommy went to get the car, Alexander would run into the water & let Daddy catch him!

Wednesday night after nap, we went out to dinner & then went to watch the Chatham As play baseball. Alexander was enthralled with the announcer as he made mention of "the man" all weekend!

Thursday morning, he woke up around 5:45am despite going to bed later than usual the night before. He & Daddy went to Dunkin' Donuts & the nearby playground which we saw at the stadium the night before. Mommy walked over and played at the playground too and we watched the young boys at baseball camp learn how to hit & catch. Alexander loved the playground & all the climbing he could do.

After the playground, we went back to get ready for the beach even though the weather was partly cloudy & windy. We tried a different beach from the day before but it was very small and not great for digging/swimming, so we went to Harding Beach which was nice. We stayed until Alexander told us he was done which was about the time clouds started rolling in.

We went back to the house & Alexander took a 3 hour nap! After his nap, we went out to dinner to the same place as before since it was too late to go driving around for a new place. After dinner, we drove to the lighthouse which Alexander thought was great with the spinning lights. That night, Alexander fought to go to bed which made for a very late bedtime - 10pm!!

Of course he woke at 5:40am the next morning too! He & Daddy went to the playground/Dunkin Donuts again however Alexander didn't want to stay there as long this time so Daddy was going to bring him to see the lighthouse again (I happened to be walking over to the playground as they were leaving).

We checked out the lighthouse & the beach and then headed back to the house for a nap before it was time to head home. Overall it was a very nice, relaxing mini-vacation! We'll have to plan to stay longer next time!

I'll post the Chatham pics in a separate post - it'll be easier that way!