White Horse Beach

We spent a week in Plymouth at White Horse Beach again this summer. We had lots of friends and family come and visit and Kate saw all of the grandparents. What a week!

Burying Kate

Lots of cuddle time

Marsha and Scott came to visit

Hiding from the cows...

Kate lived on fruit

and fruit pie....

courtesy of Grandma

Baseball lessons from Papa

Extreme Trot Trot to Boston

We all had a bit of trouble weaning from the BlackBerry...

But once we did....

"My papa. Mama, go do your own thing"

We had great weather. The one day we had AM drizzle we took a ride to Barnstable on the Cape. We found this great Audubon property called the Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary right on the harbor. The had exotic plants and nice trails.

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and had to take pics with my BlackBerry....

A Mimosa tree. It looked like a piece of Hawaii in Massachusetts

They had a colony of honey bees on display. Kate loved it! I was VERY squeamish....

and preferred taking pics from afar...

News!

Kate's going to be a big sister in February!! She has already pledged to share her toys, but will she be willing to share her blog?

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Frog Pond

Giving Papa a hug before work and then off to the Frog Pond in Boston Common

We have a great time everytime we go!

4th of July

We spent the fourth up in VT with Grammie and Scott (The Northeast Kingdom). Luckily for us, Grammie lives just down the road from a pick-your-own strawberry patch. Needless to say, Kate had a ball picking and eating them.

The farm is called Mountain View. And what a view!!

Papa finding the best row

Kate learned real quickly to only pick the ripe ones. She thought the basket was for stems, however, after she ate the fruit of the berry....

mmmm berries

Papa

At lunch, Kate grabbed her stomach and moaned "Oh, I ate too many berries!"

Not all of the berries made it home... we snacked quite a bit!

Home to make pie!

The next day, we went to Barton to the fairgrounds for a 4th of July celebration. It was a real experience for me! I had never been to a real country fair (although this was not officially THE fair, that is in August) or tractor pull (more on that later).

This is the truck we parked next to. Note the sticker. Gulp. No Boca burgers here!

This is the track for the tractor pull. For fellow 'flatlanders', a tractor pull is an event where they hook a large amount of weight to the back of a tractor (I never did figure out just how much) and watch the tractor try to pull it as far as it can. There were classic tractors from the 40's and 50's (some real beauties) and some more modern bruisers. The tractors weighed anywhere from 3 to 11,000 Lbs! The tractors would scream down the track and finally succumb to the weight in a cloud of smoke. Sometimes the front ends come up and they really smell. It was actually very addicting and we watched it for quite a while. Kate loved it!

Wetting the track

One of the winners

This cow was handing out free Cabot cheese and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, A real hit!

They also had a petting zoo. Alpacas! They were sooo soft.

and friendly

Bunnies

Kate wanted a balloon, but did not like the feeling of it being tied to her.

So, she went and asked for one that didn't float

Mem and Pep cafe.. you can see the French-Canadian influence up here!

Kate and Papa. Wait, where's Papa?

Papa?

Oh!

That night we went to Crystal Lake. Beautiful!

What a wonderful, relaxing weekend!