The Cape reprise

This year for my dad's birthday we spent a weekend at Cape Cod.  Clint's parents very generously let us stay in their house there.  Their house is very nice and just a block away from the beach.  We don't have any vacation days left so we had just the weekend so we headed out on Friday after work.  Unfortunately we hit awful traffic and it took us almost seven hours to get there.  Upon arrival we got the dogs situated and Buddy set out to explore the upstairs.

Dakota didn't have any interest in exploring, she just laid down on the rug to chow down on her bones.

My parents and Sofia and Clint came up early on Saturday and I baked up some oatmeal cranberry pecan cookies for breakfast.  To work up an appetite for lunch we took a long walk.  Buddy wore his pack.

This trick never gets old!

I think this is a bog.

The trail went through the woods and across a bog and ended at the beach.  The beach was nice.  The dark dot in the water is a seal.

The dogs enjoyed the wind but were not interested in getting wet.

After the three miles to the beach, the dogs were extremely pokey on the walk back.  After our walk we stopped for a seafood lunch at a place with excellent clam chowder and seafood.
We took another walk on the beach before dinner.  There we played with a little tiny crab.  The dogs didn't know what to make of it.

Buddy doesn't usually like water, but he had fun investigating the tidal flats.

From the beach we watched a beautiful sunset, then headed home.

For dinner we had lobster.  Before we ate we played with our food.  The dogs were not amused.

On Sunday before breakfast we went for another walk on the beach - the house is a block away from the beach, it's hard to resist.  Buddy has pretty good recall so we are comfortable letting him go off leash.

Dakota is less reliable, but we've come up with a good compromise: we leash them together.  It works out well.  Buddy plays anchor and Dakota tries to get him into trouble.

The house is a neat two story building with a sizable, but unfenced backyard.  The dogs were excited to stay outside as much as possible, but they have a tendency to wonder without fencing, so as a compromise we let the dogs stay outside on leashes unless someone was there with them.

As previously mentioned we had to get back for work on Monday so we packed the tired, sandy dogs back into the car and headed home.  Buddy has even learned to share the back seat!

Thanks again to Clint's parents!  We had a great weekend!