A visit to Port Washington on Father's Day

The kids, Debbie and I took a short pleasant trip up to Port Washington today for Father's Day. Port is one of our favorite half day getaways for sunny summer weekends. We ate lunch in the park on the bluffs overlooking the lake and then spent a few hours hanging out on the beach. Kyle was the busy kid, digging giant holes next to the water, trying to build a raft with drift wood tied together with vines, and climbing the bluffs. Kayla, Deb and I did some hunting for sand and surf polished glass pieces but spent most of our time just chilling out. Oh! We finally got to see the mysterious lighthouse that Deb's been talking about. Guess she really didn't make it up!

A Saturday afternoon bike ride

Deb and I love to ride our bikes, especially on new to us trails. This last Saturday we rode the Oak Leaf Trail from the South Shore Yacht Club in Bayview down to Grant Park in South Milwaukee. What a great ride! Lots of beautiful views and we soaked up plenty of warm sunshine. Two thumbs up!

Our trip to Boston!

Deb and I spent 5 wonderful days in the Boston area last week! We flew into Boston on a Thursday afternoon. We stayed two nights in Quincy (a suburb directly to the south where John Quincy Adams – a distant relative of mine, or so I'm told – grew up) and took the subway into Boston on Friday. We then drove down to Cape Cod for the weekend. We had a blast! We're planning on going back again someday and seeing all the things we missed the first time. Here's a few of our favorite pics from Boston: this is Paul Revere's house!!!; it's me in Boston!; the red line is the "Freedom Trail" that winds it's way about three miles through downtown Boston past all the famous Revolutionary War sites – here it's leading into Freedom Square I believe; a WWII Destroyer (okay! I forgot the name!) that saw action in the Phillipines and was hit twice by kamikazes; the subway from our hotel in Quincy to downtown Boston.

Even more Boston pictures!

Even more cool Boston pictures! Check it out: This is a view from the top (294 steps!!!) of the monument on Bunker Hill overlooking the harbor; fish being sold in the farmer's market in downtown Boston; on the ferry to the north side of the harbor with the downtown skyline in the background; Debbie on the pier trying to find which way was "north"; beautiful apartments we loved in the North End area of historic Boston.

East coast goofiness!

We were way too goofy at moments on our trip. We captured most of it for your viewing pleasure! Check it out from the top left: We were watching the local news the first night in Boston and saw a piece about some ducks that were rescued from a sewer in some "Wa, uh, Wawutoosa" city in far away Wisconsin; I'm seconds away from almost being thrown overboard for mocking a historic WWII destroyer's lifesaver; we FINALLY saw the sun on Saturday afternoon in Cape Cod, so when we got back to the hotel we had a totie in the only sunny spot – the parking lot; Deb just had to check out the beach furniture for sale on the side of the road on Cape Cod; Deb was... ah, hmm... even though we were in Quincy, a populated suburb of Boston, Deb had to check out the wildlife in the bushes...

Cape Cod!

On Saturday Deb and I drove down the coast – a very heavily wooded coast, I might add – from Boston, through Plymouth (nope, didn't see the actual "rock") and across the bridge into Cape Cod. We stayed Saturday and most of Sunday in the town of Dennis, which was established in 1639. Like many of the towns on the Cape, Dennis runs width-wise across the peninsula and includes the townships of Dennis, South Dennis, East Dennis, Dennis Port, and probably more (don't ask me why, I have no clue!). We found the west towns on the outside or open ocean side of the Cap to be much more "touristy", like the Dells or Minocqua, while the bay side towns are hidden away gems and are much quieter ("quainter" as Debbie said), more like Door County. Our hotel was on the bay side near three sandy beaches. Saturday was cool so we did a bit of exploring and ended the night with a lobster dinner (okay, only I had the lobster!). Sunday was 85 and sunny and we spend and outstanding day on the beach where Debbie's sun-soaking produced a glowing tan and my soaking produced a painful color that looked suspiciously like the lobster's from the night before. I guess SPF 4 and I don't get along.

So what were some of my favorite things?

I have many! But here's a few of my favorites. What a great trip with a wonderful lady.
From the top left: Deb and I on Corporation Beach in Dennis, MA, Mayflower beach in Dennis, Debbie and I in Freedom Square in Boston, low tide at sunset on Chapin Beach in Dennis, and a nice, frost pint of Guinness at a Irish pub in downtown Boston! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!