Weekend in Cape Cod

I had a long weekend off last week (Friday through Monday), so Todd took 2 days off work and we went away to Cape Cod. We stayed in Provincetown, a charming town at the tip of the cape. We had reservations at a quaint little inn and tickets to go whale watching on Saturday morning. We left NYC early-ish on Friday morning, caught the train to Greenwich, CT, where we picked up my friend Gabriela's car. Thanks to her, we actually were able to do this trip without having to rent! Yay! It took us a solid 5 hours drive from Greenwich and we arrived in P-town around 5:30 pm. We checked in and set out for some dinner and to check the place out. We had a nice seafood (the fish is so fresh!) dinner at a restaurant called BUBELAH'S (I thought of you, Evie). Excellent and we ate outside, which I always love. Now, for those of you who don't know, Provincetown is probably the USA's largest drag queen community, especially for such a TINY town. The queens were out, even before dark, riding around on their bicycles, tossing their feather boas about. We managed to resist the drag show on Friday night, settling instead for just walking around town and early night to bed. We got up for breakfast on Saturday, then headed out to the pier to catch our whale-watching boat. The whale trip was amazing! We saw over 20-30 whales, mostly humpbacks, but we did also see a Fin Whale and some Mincke Whales. The humpbacks are HUGE, and they get so close to the boat. Many of you might already know this, but humpback whales do not have any teeth at all, they feed using filters on their mouths called "baleens." Basically, they just open their huge mouths (the size of a large hottub or small swimming pool), let a bunch of water and other stuff in, then close their mouths and push the sea water out through the small holes in the baleen, which are large enough to let water get out, but fish and small eels and plankton get stuck in and become food. Since they are such huge animals (80 feet or so for full grown), the obviously must eat a lot. And, since they breathe air, they have to come up quite often. This all means that we had a VERY successful whale watching trip. It took us about an hour's trip out into the ocean, then we watched for about an hour, then an hour back. It was one of the more incredible experiences of my life and I LOVED it! When we got back, we had lunch at this place on the dock, then went back to the inn for A NAP. Does anyone out there know ME to take a nap? Well, I did. And it was great. We napped for a few hours, then out on the town. We ended up bypassing the "Naked Boys Singing" show for one that was a little more family friendly, the lovely Cashetta (America's only drag queen musician). She was pretty good and we had a fun time. When in Rome, right? On Sunday, we did a little historical sightseeing and climbed the Pilgrim Monument and went to the museum. Did you know that the pilgrims actually arrived FIRST in Provincetown? The climb was great exercise, just enough to get us ready for our next nap. I know it's hard to believe, but I did take another nap! WOW! Sunday night we drove into Wellfleet (a slightly larger town about 20 minutes inland) for dinner at Moby Dick's and then the drive-in movies! We saw Ratatouille - great, fun movie and it was very cool to go to my first drive in (that I remember, anyway). We had to get up pretty early on Monday to get the car back and we spent almost all day on the road - it was rainy and yukky.
Back to work on T/W/Th at the restaurant. I will fill you all in on the details later, but know that I am learning a lot and definitely being challenged! Hope you all had a wonderful week and weekend!