Our Road Trip to the Beach!

Lately C has been begging to go to the beach.  Now there are lots of perks to living here in upstate NY, but being close to a beach is just not one of them, so after a lot of debate and research and going back and forth and what not we decided we were going to surprise the girls with a road trip to Cape Cod.  Hyannis to be exact.  Sure it's a bit further away than some of the other beaches we were looking at, but we knew a) that the beaches are clean, b) the water would be warm with small/no waves and c) that the Cape was open for business rather than still being mostly closed due to Sandy.

So we packed up the girls and set off.  

We made a random bathroom stop at a mall that was about 5 minutes from our final destination, but hey it worked out, because there was a carousel there!  Another thing that C has been asking to do!  

I think she liked

I think A liked it too :) She just kept saying up, down, up, down...
 

We ended up picking Veteran's Memorial Beach to go to since they had a picnic area, however once C saw there was a beach nothing else mattered, she just wanted to be down at the ocean.  So a super quick lunch for Mommy and Daddy, a quick change into swim suits and we were down in the water.

Some awesome things about this beach... 1) NO waves.  Now some people may say, "Ocean with no waves?  What's the point?" but to that I say "I've got kids and it's great not worrying about them getting sucked away by the tide." 2) Shallow waters, the water only got about waist deep in the swimming portion. 3) WARM water, seriously this water was just beautiful, I could (and did) just sit in it for hours.  

I am pretty sure that Hyannis is going to be a place we come to every year, at least once a year, even if it's just for a couple hours.  It's nice to have a place where we can all go to recharge (even if it takes half the day to get there and back lol).

 

Already we are making plans to bring the camper down in the off season so we can do some more exploring.