One Full Cape Day

I rarely get a whole day with my sister, Janet. She has spent the last couple of decades working so hard and now that she sold one of her companies she gets to slow down a little. Don’t get me wrong, she did transfer a lot of that time to working on her other company so work is part of everyday. But today was my only whole day visiting her and she did spend a great amount of time showing me all around this place she loves.

We took a tour through Ptown. It was slow as there are people in the middle of every street and bike riders going the wrong way down one way streets, which is legal here and so many dogs on leashes, but not necessarily close to their humans.

The cottages are so cute and the garden’s devine. The star of the summer are the hydrangeas. From Snow White to deep rose, I can’t decide which ones I like the best. Apparently this year’s weather has produced this bumper crop and I was here in time to catch the show.

My favorite part of Janet’s tour was the Cape Cod National Seashore Park. JFK apparently created this national park and it is huge and spectacular. We are so lucky that Presidents thought to do these things because it preserves the natural beauty of a place for all to share in it. If it had not been done it would be developed and roped off and hidden away from most and only a very few privileged people would ever experience it and it would not be wild.

This afternoon we went swimming again and the water was colder than yesterday. I am wondering how much swimming I am going to do in more northern Maine. Janet did tell me that cold water was good for inflammation, so perhaps I should just hang in the water no matter how cold.

Tonight we went to a sweet restaurant for dinner and told stories and laughed. I am already sad that I will be leaving at the crack of dawn to continue my adventure, but I have loved seeing my sister and her Sophie. It was so lucky that I was here when they were here, even if it was just a second.