cape cod
yup, I just got back from cape cod a few days early. oh for those who didn't know, I left on saturday for cape cod for the week. It was ok, we stayed in Wellfleet this time which is waaaaay dooooooooown on the cape, next to truro and province town.
The cottage we got was ok, small (that goes without saying) but it was pretty much on the water. We were somewhere around 100 feet above the beach and a path near the cottage lead to some steep and narrow stairs that lead down to the beach (which was at the bottom of some huge cliffs that must be eroding away like crazy).
The beach itself was very nice. Not rocky, it looked nice. I didn't bother swimming cause the water is cold as hell and it looked a little crazy. My brother and I were walking around the beach at night and some of the waves were pretty big and looked like they could suck someone out to sea. they probably weren't bad I just didn't feel like swimming in the cold water. The waves broke a little too close to shore to really do much with them and that's pretty much the only reason I'd go into the ocean.
My brother left sunday night so I didn't have much to do sunday or monday and most of tuesday. That lead to me reading the DaVincci code in 2 days, I liked it a lot though but the whole having nothing to do was probably the only real reason I read it in the 2 days. I read most of another random book in the cottage but was maybe 3/4 through with it today when I left.
Tuesday my aunt susan and "uncle" (it hurts to say uncle..)larry came to visit us, they were staying over in falmouth on vacation from california. Most irritating relatives ever. Susan is easily the slowest talking, slowest anything person I've ever met and larry, you can't understand a fucking thing larry says. We went out with them to eat lunch at a place on route 6 called "arnold's" and... I can't believe my dad didn't flip out. Not only did susan and larry not pay for their meal... but they ordered the most expensive things on the menu (and anything on cape cod is wicked overpriced)! 2 lobsters and steamers.. their food easily costed $60 for the 2 of them and my dad just paid for it, didn't make fun of them until after they left. I wanted to see if I could hang out with my buddy tamara, who lives in the next town over but for some reason I had a hard time getting service for my phone. I'd just like to add that there is nothing more disgusting than watching another person eat a lobster, definately not something to eat on a first date.
When my brother got back we went to the late showing of batman begins at the little movie theater in town. It was actually a very well done movie, especially when you compare it to batman 2-4 which blew filthy syphilitic goats. Ok.. after the movie theater we went down to the beach cause my brother likes smoking the reefer and the beach is secluded. Both times my brother started rolling a joint on the beach at night I'd see a light start moving towards the top of the stairs leading down to the beach. The first time it was some dude looking for his dog and that wasn't that odd cause it was only 9:30 and the guy was fairly young. The second time it happened it was after the movie and it was damn near 1am when we saw a light up there. Some old guy came walking down the stairs with a lantern to start fishing at night, how weird is that?
We went to the movies again last night to go see war of the worlds, it kinda sucks ass. Don't see war of the worlds. First off, after seeing his little rant on psychiatry... tom cruise is an ass, where does a guy that not only follows a religion created by a science fiction writer but also gives said science fiction writer large sums of money to do so get the nerve to call anything a "psuedo-science?" but the movie was bad, the story mainly. If the aliens were so advanced you'd thing they would have known that the germs on the planet or bacteria or what not would kill them... and if they buried the ships under the ground a million years ago or whatever why the hell did they wait for things with weapons to be here before trying to conquer the planet? it makes no sense.
I was eating at this restaurant down the street from our cottage called the beach comber. It had live music and a calender of who was playing on there. Well at the top of the calender (a few days before I ate there) my friend's band badfish played there, I thought that was really random.
The only things that were good were that the little girl (who was in man on fire) is a pretty good actress for a little kid and a few of the little jokes. The part where the father makes his son play catch with him and the son puts on a red sox hat was funny, that got a chuckle from the audience. aaaand the end where they show a wideshot of a destroyed boston got a bit of a chuckle from the audience too but the movie kind of sucked. oooh, the trailer for the brothers grimm looked pretty good I might add, very tim burton-ish. The orlando bloom movie.. I think it was called elizabethtown looked kind of funny too but it smells a little like a romantic comedy. so: see batman, don't see war of the worlds, tom cruise is a jackass.
tooooday the family went up to province town. If you're not familiar with province town it's a kind of ummm gay mecca. I would have gotten some good pictures but my camera batteries died as we got there cause I foolishly wasted them fooling around with the camera in the car. ptown was crowded as hell, if I've ever been there before then I was too young to really remember it. Lots of tourists, tourists everywhere.. everywheeeeeere! I swear it was harder to find parking in ptown than it is in fucking boston. It was cold out, didn't even feel like summer today so I didn't really like walking around there. It was an interesting place but it would be a lot more fun on a nice day with friends instead of family. Lots of weird stuff though. There was a store called something like "eros" that had a chainmail bikini type thing and a leather suit with studs in it in the front window.
There were also lots of little touristy stores that sold t-shirts and shit (my brother bought another pair of sunglasses, he has like 6 of the fucking things). All of them play out the whole gay theme to an extent. In fact, one store I went into had a gay mix cd AND gay energy drinks. I should have asked how a gay energy drink is different from a normal one but I'm lazy. I got a t-shirt from one of the stores and that was about it. I don't like shopping, ladies: most men don't like shopping. Those that don't mind shopping do mind shopping the way women shop. We're stupid, we are too lazy to go looking for a good price. I wouldn't go in a store just to look at something.. well at least not clothes. If I do go into a clothing store I do have a vague idea of something I intend to buy and it's annoying to be with people that go from store to store to store and then back to the last store then to another store then back to a different store.. it's annoying ok? We ate lunch at a deceptively big restaurant called the lobster pot it was pretty good but I've had enough seafood. I don't like fish and pretty much all the restaurants there are seafood restaurants. There's only so many times you can eat fried clams or friend calamari before you get sick of it. Yeah, there seems to be about a million fudge shops in ptown so my brother was making fudge packing jokes about every 5 minutes. My brother, my dad and myself were allllllll ptowned out but nooo my step mom and sister had to keep shopping, we finally eplained how much we didn't want to shop anymore cause we hate shopping and went home.
The weather was shit today and it will be tomorrow sooo me and my bro decided to go home early and that's where my long winded story ends.
entering the cape on the sagamore bridge
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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/IMG_0340.jpg
something woke me up at like 5:30 and we were facing due east
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0357.jpg
the beach
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0360.jpg
the stairs
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0377.jpg
Leaving the cape
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0442.jpg
that's it for now.
The cottage we got was ok, small (that goes without saying) but it was pretty much on the water. We were somewhere around 100 feet above the beach and a path near the cottage lead to some steep and narrow stairs that lead down to the beach (which was at the bottom of some huge cliffs that must be eroding away like crazy).
The beach itself was very nice. Not rocky, it looked nice. I didn't bother swimming cause the water is cold as hell and it looked a little crazy. My brother and I were walking around the beach at night and some of the waves were pretty big and looked like they could suck someone out to sea. they probably weren't bad I just didn't feel like swimming in the cold water. The waves broke a little too close to shore to really do much with them and that's pretty much the only reason I'd go into the ocean.
My brother left sunday night so I didn't have much to do sunday or monday and most of tuesday. That lead to me reading the DaVincci code in 2 days, I liked it a lot though but the whole having nothing to do was probably the only real reason I read it in the 2 days. I read most of another random book in the cottage but was maybe 3/4 through with it today when I left.
Tuesday my aunt susan and "uncle" (it hurts to say uncle..)larry came to visit us, they were staying over in falmouth on vacation from california. Most irritating relatives ever. Susan is easily the slowest talking, slowest anything person I've ever met and larry, you can't understand a fucking thing larry says. We went out with them to eat lunch at a place on route 6 called "arnold's" and... I can't believe my dad didn't flip out. Not only did susan and larry not pay for their meal... but they ordered the most expensive things on the menu (and anything on cape cod is wicked overpriced)! 2 lobsters and steamers.. their food easily costed $60 for the 2 of them and my dad just paid for it, didn't make fun of them until after they left. I wanted to see if I could hang out with my buddy tamara, who lives in the next town over but for some reason I had a hard time getting service for my phone. I'd just like to add that there is nothing more disgusting than watching another person eat a lobster, definately not something to eat on a first date.
When my brother got back we went to the late showing of batman begins at the little movie theater in town. It was actually a very well done movie, especially when you compare it to batman 2-4 which blew filthy syphilitic goats. Ok.. after the movie theater we went down to the beach cause my brother likes smoking the reefer and the beach is secluded. Both times my brother started rolling a joint on the beach at night I'd see a light start moving towards the top of the stairs leading down to the beach. The first time it was some dude looking for his dog and that wasn't that odd cause it was only 9:30 and the guy was fairly young. The second time it happened it was after the movie and it was damn near 1am when we saw a light up there. Some old guy came walking down the stairs with a lantern to start fishing at night, how weird is that?
We went to the movies again last night to go see war of the worlds, it kinda sucks ass. Don't see war of the worlds. First off, after seeing his little rant on psychiatry... tom cruise is an ass, where does a guy that not only follows a religion created by a science fiction writer but also gives said science fiction writer large sums of money to do so get the nerve to call anything a "psuedo-science?" but the movie was bad, the story mainly. If the aliens were so advanced you'd thing they would have known that the germs on the planet or bacteria or what not would kill them... and if they buried the ships under the ground a million years ago or whatever why the hell did they wait for things with weapons to be here before trying to conquer the planet? it makes no sense.
I was eating at this restaurant down the street from our cottage called the beach comber. It had live music and a calender of who was playing on there. Well at the top of the calender (a few days before I ate there) my friend's band badfish played there, I thought that was really random.
The only things that were good were that the little girl (who was in man on fire) is a pretty good actress for a little kid and a few of the little jokes. The part where the father makes his son play catch with him and the son puts on a red sox hat was funny, that got a chuckle from the audience. aaaand the end where they show a wideshot of a destroyed boston got a bit of a chuckle from the audience too but the movie kind of sucked. oooh, the trailer for the brothers grimm looked pretty good I might add, very tim burton-ish. The orlando bloom movie.. I think it was called elizabethtown looked kind of funny too but it smells a little like a romantic comedy. so: see batman, don't see war of the worlds, tom cruise is a jackass.
tooooday the family went up to province town. If you're not familiar with province town it's a kind of ummm gay mecca. I would have gotten some good pictures but my camera batteries died as we got there cause I foolishly wasted them fooling around with the camera in the car. ptown was crowded as hell, if I've ever been there before then I was too young to really remember it. Lots of tourists, tourists everywhere.. everywheeeeeere! I swear it was harder to find parking in ptown than it is in fucking boston. It was cold out, didn't even feel like summer today so I didn't really like walking around there. It was an interesting place but it would be a lot more fun on a nice day with friends instead of family. Lots of weird stuff though. There was a store called something like "eros" that had a chainmail bikini type thing and a leather suit with studs in it in the front window.
There were also lots of little touristy stores that sold t-shirts and shit (my brother bought another pair of sunglasses, he has like 6 of the fucking things). All of them play out the whole gay theme to an extent. In fact, one store I went into had a gay mix cd AND gay energy drinks. I should have asked how a gay energy drink is different from a normal one but I'm lazy. I got a t-shirt from one of the stores and that was about it. I don't like shopping, ladies: most men don't like shopping. Those that don't mind shopping do mind shopping the way women shop. We're stupid, we are too lazy to go looking for a good price. I wouldn't go in a store just to look at something.. well at least not clothes. If I do go into a clothing store I do have a vague idea of something I intend to buy and it's annoying to be with people that go from store to store to store and then back to the last store then to another store then back to a different store.. it's annoying ok? We ate lunch at a deceptively big restaurant called the lobster pot it was pretty good but I've had enough seafood. I don't like fish and pretty much all the restaurants there are seafood restaurants. There's only so many times you can eat fried clams or friend calamari before you get sick of it. Yeah, there seems to be about a million fudge shops in ptown so my brother was making fudge packing jokes about every 5 minutes. My brother, my dad and myself were allllllll ptowned out but nooo my step mom and sister had to keep shopping, we finally eplained how much we didn't want to shop anymore cause we hate shopping and went home.
The weather was shit today and it will be tomorrow sooo me and my bro decided to go home early and that's where my long winded story ends.
entering the cape on the sagamore bridge
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/IMG_0341.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/IMG_0340.jpg
something woke me up at like 5:30 and we were facing due east
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0357.jpg
the beach
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0360.jpg
the stairs
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0377.jpg
Leaving the cape
http://photobucket.com/albums/b215/jrosenblatt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0442.jpg
that's it for now.