White, wheat, or maahble?

Saturday on the Cape and it seems the world has arrived for it's weekend of fun.

I worked this morning at the Sea-Mist Resort, just for a couple of hours, selling vacation memberships to the Cape Cod Community Club. It's a buy-local savings plan for restaurants, shops and services on the Cape.

Heading home and I realized I'd like a bit of adventure myself. After much discussion, which sometimes feels like 4 heads trying to go in 4 different directions(Jordan, Torin, Kenna and me), we decided to go to Falmouth. You say this Fal-muth in cape speak. A few years ago we went Coonamessett Farms in Falmouth and then to the beach. But this year no one seemed interested in the Farm, or the beach (other than me). We decided to drive on out and putter around.

It was a lovely day here, upper 70's, breezy, sunny so a day in town was very comfortable. By the time we hit town Makenna was hungry so we looked for a little sandwich shop to get something to eat. Artie's Cafe fit the bill. She ordered their soup and half a sandwich special. Clam Chowder is not to be missed while here on the Cape and Makenna loves clam chowder. When she ordered her lunch the woman asked about her sandwich "white, wheat, or maahble?" After a beat or two Makenna made her selection. While we were outside eating I had to laugh when Makenna said "Did you hear when she asked me about the bread? At first I didn't know what she was saying!" We had some fun saying white wheat or maahble over and over. You gotta love the Cape, it's filled with lovely local flavor. It makes life fun.

We puttered around town a bit, I fell in love with a little garden spinner that was in the shape of a toadstool. The base was stuck in the ground but the little red mushroom cap was a spinner. I'm silly, I know, but I love toadstools. Throw in a snail carrying a gnome on it's back and I'm sunk. Someone please send help. There was a vintage knockoff store, a few clothing places and some stuff like that, the usual. There is also a great little organic cupcake place called CupCapes of Falmouth. I got a little cupcake, plain with jam fillng and cream cheese icing, fresh berries on top. They gave me a sweet little to go carton for it and I carried that thing around with me all day. Eaten with tea that night and I was happy.

We headed back to where we parked, in the lot behind the Coffee Obsession coffee shop and hit the little stores right there. On the way Kenna and I walked around a garden that looked private, but had a sign on the door to come on in. We took pictures in there, Kenna a bit uncertain that we were actually allowed, but ok with it after a bit. It was so nice in the way of gardens around here. Loose. Flowey. They move you through slowly. Granite brick shaped stepping stones and little sections of lavender, pink roses, cosmos, and all sorts of plants I can't identify. The crowning glory of this garden was a huge hedge of gorgeous white hydrangeas right along the fence line. The hydrangeas themselves were massive and the large amount of them made for a very dramatic show. Very nice.

Where the coffeeshop is a nice little pocket of loveliness. The Paper Tyger paper shop is beautiful. Its wide-open floor plan flows nicely, it's decorated with big paper flowers, and hanging shells and all sorts of things. It has this great selection of cards, paper, hand-made books, notebooks, wrapping paper, all sorts of yummies!! We loved it in there. All of us. And not just me who is so easily marketed to.

After shopping a bit we all wanted to crash, and Coffee Obsession is the kind of place we love. It has these great wide planked rough wood floors, a large book shelf full of pottery, a couple of cool tshirts for sale, comfy chairs, WiFi, and some Great coffee. Heaven. We chilled for a while, Torin and Jordan did stuff on the laptop, Kenna read.

I headed down to Surf Drive Beach because I need to at least see the beach if I'm near it, at the very least. I walked a bit, shot some photos, enjoyed just being. Feet in the sand......