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Archive for July, 2008

Well, we’ve been back from Wildwood for 2 days now, and I already miss that salty, cool ocean breeze! What a humbling experience, seeing the ocean. Makes us realize how small we are. The week went by so fast and we’ll definitely look into heading back into that region on future vacations, when Sam’s a little older.

One thing we don’t miss, however, is eating like Americans! OK, OK, that is a generalization, but the food available to us on the boardwalk is junk food at it’s finest. Thankfully, for the suppers, we would cook our own healthier food. The boardwalk is a strip of about 5 km long parallel to the ocean littered with shops, games, arcades, casinos, fast food restaurants (only one McDonalds!), desert and fudge shops, etc. The boardwalk also has three huge piers jutting out towards the ocean that are known as ‘Morey’s Piers’. It’s an amusement park that has rides that can rival any Six flag parks is their sheer size and fun factor. We did quite a few of those rides while trying out the boardwalks ‘world famous’ food!

We sampled the Kohr Bros. frozen custard (like soft serve ice cream), Curly’s curly spiced fries, Sam’s pizzeria pizza, funnel cake (like beaver tails but in spaghetti shapes), dippin’ dots ice cream (little blobs of ice cream of different flavors bunched together), some Douglas fudge, Sour’s freshly squeezed lemonade and many more! Needless to say, we’ve been eating salads since we got back!

Speaking of food, I loved going to the local supermarket because they had tons of food we don’t have here! And being a fan of food, especially breakfast cereal, I couldn’t help but buy 4 boxes of cereal at the beginning of our week! They were, of course, eaten. No survivors! But before leaving, my bro and I bought some to bring home! Classics like Cookie Crisp, Count Chocula, Fruity Pebbles, Chocolaty Pebbles and Fruit Loops! Why the Fruit Loops? Because they have blue rings! We don’t get the blue rings here! It’s groundbreaking I tells ‘ya!!!

We also had time to drop into Atlantic City for some outlet shopping! But no gambling was done however, as after shopping for about 5 hours, we’d decided that walking anywhere was out of the question, so back home we went!

Later in the week, we did a little historical exploration and hit the little town south of Wildwood known as Cape May. A typical little seaside town with a flurry of seafood eateries along it’s main harbor. The food was excellent, even for a guy like me who isn’t overly fond of the shell fish. We visited Cape May’s biggest attraction: it’s lighthouse. I had never been to one before, and being a guy who’s a little afraid of heights, things went rather well. Melissa and Sam loved it! I had Sam is his fanny pack the whole way up and I was sweating by the time we reached the top! Darn stairs! Get a freakin’ elevator in there!

Most of our time was spent at the beach however, and we relaxed listening to the waves crashing along the shore. We also buried a couple people (myself included) and build all the sand castle you could want. We threw the football and baseball around, sea shell collecting, and even Sam went for a ‘dip’ in the ocean…his ten toes hits the chilly water and he decided that was enough.

It was fascinating to see all the wildlife the beach let us discover. We found sand dollars, oysters, hermit crabs, baby crabs, huge sea snails buried in the sand, horse shoe crabs and jelly fish. Me and the kids had fun bringing our newfound little creature friends to the girls tanning on the beach, and grossing them out in the process! I think that may be why Melissa never actually went swimming! And I have to agree that stepping on a horse shoe crabs isn’t very appealing.

All in all, it was a great trip for the mind and body! It’s was our first trip to the ocean and we loved it! We can’t wait to go back with Sam in a couple years and watch him run along the beach, splashing and playing… and grossing out Mom with some slimy thing he finds on the beach!

Thanks for reading!

Some other pics:

Hey Everyone!  It took a little longer than I had thought to get this second post up, but we’re just having so much darn fun!   And I have to write this one quick because we’re on our way out check out and old lighthouse in the town of Cape May.  Just make for some nice pics!  Plus, for the ladies, the are plenty of little dinky deco shops and stuff, so that will keep ‘em happy too!

Here are a few more pics, as you can guess, our daily routine has been beach & boardwalk.  We’ve been doing that for about 4 days now, but don’t blame us for lack of originality, it’s the weather’s fault!  We’ve had nothing but beautiful clear sky and cool ocean breezes since we’ve been here!  I love it, Melissa love’s it and, of course, Sammy-Pants loves it!  Meghan gave Sam that nickname, Sammy-Pants, and I’m not sure why, Sam hasn’t worn any pants since we’ve been here!

There is a theme park here called Morey’s Pier, it consists of three huge peers that stretch off onto the beach.  It’s like a six flags amusement park: tons of rides, tons of food and tons of those games that look easy so you try them then quickly realize you got screwed and are stuck standing there looking like a dolt who just spent 24$ to get a little plush toy that disintegrates the minute it hits water…

But we’re having a blast!  Between all the sea shells and crab hunting and sand castle making and breaking and the weird food testing (like fried Oreo`s and dipping dots ice cream of the future) there’s always something to keep us entertained.

So I’d better go, we got a day of historical exploring to do… before we hit the beach again!

Man I love that salty air!!!

As mentioned in my post yesterday, we got in later than we thought, so we only had a little beach time… But that turned out to be good thing as we were all pretty pooped out after a long day of driving.  So here are a few oics fom day one!  Talk to ya soon!

Quick post for now folks, but we have finally arrived at our rented condo in New-Jersey’s Wildwood Crest!  We made the 9 hours drive, which actually took about 11 hours because of traffic, in two days.  This turned out to be a good strategy as Sammy was in a good mood for not being cemented in his car seat for too long.  I gotta say, he’s a good kid… Quiet and calm, he was just happy sitting with us an playing with his car toys!

So having finally arrived, we discovered that the owner had NOT hidden the key to the condo! He instead tried to mail it to us at home back in Canada… after we had already left!!! Grrrr!!!  So that means we got here after a 6 hours ride through traffic only to find out we couldn’t get in!!!!   Safe to say, we were getting pretty pissed buy that point.

Mike then whipped out his cell to call the owner, which we were fortunate enough to get in touch with, and we got a spare set of keys!

So now we are in the condo and I’m updating the blog with my neighbor Louise’s laptop on a WIFI connection from a restaurant down the street!

Gotta go! We’re headed to the beach for a quick walk and dip, then it’s off to the supermarket to stock up the fridge!!!

I’ll update the blog with some pictures of the condo and beach later tonight!

Take care all!