A Cape Cod Christmas!

With the Christmas season finally here we decided that we needed to get into the Christmas Spirit! Now this isn't exactly the easiest task when your home is a van! However we did manage to get some awesome Christmas decorations at a local dollar store in an attempt to make our van "pimped out" for Christmas! A snow globe mounted to the dash, some red and green garland, Christmas magnets, a Christmas star on the antenna, Christmas bulbs hanging from the review mirror, and finally some battery operated lights did the trick! We are now happily cruising along to the tunes of the holiday season, and hopefully spreading the holiday cheer to our fellow travelers. Once again Priceline pulled through for us and we stayed the weekend at a great hotel in Dartmouth MA, and even better Dottie and Sandi met back up with us for our four day weekend! We had been wanting to go to Cape Cod since making it out here, but had yet had the opportunity. So lucky for us it was finally within driving distance, even if it was a bit out of season! So we all piled into the van, and headed towards "the cape!" We didn't really have a destination in mind per say. We just figured we'd go with the flow and see where that would land us. Earlier in the week I had seen an add for a Christmas Festival in Hyannis, which is at the beginning of the cape. So we made our way in that direction. Taking a slight detour to Sandwich, MA, at the request of our friend Jed, who used to live there! We found all of the towns we passed through on "the cape" to be great little summer escapes, and we could definately relate to the tourist vibe we felt all along the coast. Finally we found Hyannis, and made our way to the harbor in order to see the boat parade of lights! It must have been quite the sight for the locals to see us all pile out of the van bundled up in as many layers as we could find. I imagine that some of us might have looked like the little brother Randy from the movie "The Christmas Story." We stopped to take a look at the JFK museum with all it's Christmas decorations before we made our way to the harbor for our Festival of Lights boat departed. We even watched a rendition of It's a Wonderful Life by the local high school! With our Christmas spirits now soaring we decided to make the most of next day by taking a more patriotic approach. We all once again piled into layers of clothing and our vans for our adventure to Plymouth Rock! The "rock" wasn't as glorious as one would think, but the history and it's upcoming anniversary made the adventure definitely worthwhile! We spent the day posing for pictures like crazy tourists, and even singing our hearts out to the tune of "Proud To Be An American!" ...and I won't forget the Pilgrams who landed at this rock for me...ha ha...Our next stop would be our Extended Stay hotel since these studio type apartments have kitchenettes we decided to cook our dinner, and watch "Pirates of the Carribean" on the big CAMFEL screens! It was sad to depart the next day knowing that we more than likely wouldn't be seeing our new friends for quite some time, since we will be going our separate ways for the holidays and after! It was fun to have one last opportunity to take new adventures, and make new memories!