Monday July 27

Monday and it's Girl's Day.


The girls and I planned a little day for ourselves today. We're in the last few days of having Jordan with us on the Cape and we're making sure we do stuff we really like together. So, breakfast at The Daily Paper and Thriftstore Shopping and it's a day.


The Daily Paper is a nice restaurant chef-owned and operated and the food is creative and delicious. I had a Salmon Plate which is bagel, lox, cream cheese, capers, tomato, red onion, and a wedge of lemon. Oh, sweet mama, it's good. Makenna got a Chocolate Chip Pancake and a side of bacon. Jordan went for the Sliced Baguette French Toast. She and I had Ethiopian coffee. Dark and Good. Good food, good service, good company and a good time.


Jordan had the thrift store shopping all planned out, thanks to Google and Google Maps. After we left The Daily Paper we hit High Hopes, the Baptist Church thrift on Main St. Hyannis (closed except Tues and Thurs, and closed it was) the Salvation Army (a bit nasty, and NO cHanGing RoOmS, dear god in heaven, and I quote from a worker "We don't have any changing rooms, but there's a mirror over there and there's not too many men in here."), and Goodwill (50% off a certain color every Monday). Goodwill was by far the nicest experience, mostly due to the fact that they have lot of great clothes, and that 50% off sure helps because they are not cheap. The place is pretty clean, isn't offensive in its smell, and is pretty much normal and not too creepy. These are good qualities in a thrift store. We all found some good items, Jordan being very happy with finding 2 pairs of jeans (Gap and Old Navy) and both of them fitting great and (bonus) having the color of the week for the 50% off. These things just don't happen like that, but today, for Jordan, they did. Kenna was also a happy girl. She found tops from brands she likes right now, Abercrombe and Fitch, and Hollister. I also got a couple of tops and was happy to add a bit of variety to the wardrobe.


We all can only take so much thrifting, we just get shopped out, and so we headed home to chill, get some lunch and see if we could beat the weather and have some time on the beach. It stayed great, even though they were calling for rain, and the three of us headed down to the little beach at the end of the road. It was nice just talking, sunning, looking for shells and rocks and just being together. We watched the ferries and boats going in and out of the harbor and watched a pair of Canada Geese hang out with a seagull (weird).


After a while we all came home and I got ready for dinner with Aunt Cheryl and Geoff Rose, the man who runs Cape Cod Community Club, the organization I've been working with while I'm on the Cape. We went to The Steak House and had a great meal and nice company. We were home by 8, Geoff had a ferry to catch back to Martha's Vineyard.

It's a cool and lovely evening, and nice to have had a full and fun and relaxing day, and plenty of evening to just chill and be here in this house that we all love, together.