{"id":3989,"date":"2015-07-06T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:50:46","slug":"falmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/falmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Falmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The culmination of our road trip was a glorious fourth of July weekend on Cape Cod with our friends Nate and Christine. (Nate and I went to high school and<\/em> college together… whoa!)<\/p>\n

The original seed for this crazy road trip was planted during the summer of 2010 by Nate and Christine. We were at Karen and David’s wedding (our friends from Ithaca, a few posts back<\/a>) in Arizona and we had such a good time that we agreed we should do it again (it = hanging out, wedding not required, though it was a good one). Nate mentioned having access to a family house on Cape Cod. We were interested. But then Maggie was born and life got busy and years went by. It wasn’t until this winter that I reached out to see if the invitation was still standing. It was. And a road trip was born.<\/p>\n

The house is in West Falmouth, at the southwest edge of Cape Cod. The time here was the definition of relaxation. Tons of room for the kids to romp, an air hockey table, plenty of bikes for all of us, nearby beaches, mojitos, great food, puzzles and conversation in the evening… what more could you want?<\/p>\n

The time was made even better by getting to know Nate’s cousin, Emory, and his partner, Ben. They were both awesome in their own right, and were unbelievably good with the kids\u2014seriously, I haven’t had so much time-off from parenting in years. We were all sad to see them go on Sunday, but none more so than Maggie and Griffin who remained cranky with us for days over this betrayal.<\/p>\n

We also hit a new milestone for Griffin’s physical endurance: a 16-mile round-trip bike ride to Woods Hole. He was on an unfamiliar “big kid” bike with gears and handle breaks, and he did a fantastic job. No complaints at all. (The photo of him in the two-seater below was on a different, shorter, ride.)<\/p>\n

The best part of all of this is that Nate and Christine will be driving through Minnesota in August so we’ll get to see them twice<\/em> in one summer. Feels almost gluttonous.<\/p>\n

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