Martha’s Vineyard, Part III

Later in the day after hitting the beach, we went up to Menemsha, to grab some seafood and watch the sunset.

The next morning we drove up to Aquinnah (Gay Head) to see the lighthouse and the cliffs. 

Ashley and Leah loved running through the windy field near the parking area at the lighthouse:

After moving the cars down to a different lot, it was a long walk to the beach.  (On the walk down we figured out where to drop passengers off before you park your car.)

It got rainy later in the week, so the photos weren’t as frequent—but there is still a fourth part to come.

Martha’s Vineyard, Part II

Ashley and Leah were up pretty early all week, so they got some time to play quietly and eat breakfast together each morning.
Ashley, first thing when she got downstairs, always wanted to watch Leah’s Mickey Mouse (and “Mickey Bird”, as Ashley calls Donald Duck) iPad app.  Leah was a good sport, even though she’d probably had enough of it:

(Sorry for that one C.)
Ashley taught Leah her unfortunate, but funny habit of chanting “ALL DONE (yell), all done (whisper), ALL DONE, all done, ALL DONE, all done" when she was finished eating.
After breakfast on our second full day, we picked up some zucchini bread (the first of many loaves) at Morning Glory Farm, and headed over to State Beach for a picnic.  It was crazy windy, but empty and beautiful.  The kids enjoyed playing in the sand and we got a little kite-flying in:






More to come…

Martha’s Vineyard, Part I

(Sorry for the lack of photos the last six months or so—hopefully this post will get the ball rolling for me and I’ll fill in the gap.)

We spent the last week of September in Martha’s Vineyard with Nancy’s cousin D, her hubby C, and their kids Leah and Norah.  Our first time there, and we had a really nice time.

After both booking the 3:45 ferry, we coincidentally ended up on an earlier boat together.  I somehow took only one (horrible) photo of the view from the ferry, but I feel like I should post something showing our journey over there, so here it is:

Ashley and Sutton were great on the drive and boat ride over there:

After arriving at the house we were renting and having some dinner, it was time to get the kids ready for bed.  Ashley and Leah started an (almost) nightly tradition-- brushing their teeth together in a corner behind a dresser:

And the kids all had storytime together:

The next morning, we headed up to Oak Bluffs.

Oak Bluffs has a large passenger ferry dock, and is probably the tackiest-looking place on the island.  Still, it’s pretty nice, in the offseason at least:

We walked down to the Trinity Park Tabernacle, an open-air church surrounded by a few hundred cute little gothic-style cottages, like these ones:

Not sure what these guys were talking about here, but knowing them, it was probably snack-sharing related:

After going home for naps and dinner, we went out for ice cream.  Ashley had her first own ice cream cone.  She handled it shockingly well.

That brings us up to the end of the first full day there.  Part two tomorrow.