Second Anniversary

Last week Jen and I celebrated our second anniversary (7 Aug). On 5 Aug. we went down to Cape Cod and drove along scenic highway 6A up to the tip (Provincetown). There we boarded the Dolphin VII whale watching ship. It was an amazing time. Three different humpbacks breached within sight of the ship. Evidently this is a very rare activity since it takes a lot of energy to propel a 50 ton animal completely out of the water. The humpbacks migrate up here to eat during the summer and then spend the winter down in the Caribbean to mate, but the downside to spending the summer in such a nice tropical place is that there's no food for them to eat, hence the normal lack of breaching. [Note, I unfortunately didn't capture a single picture of a breach so the top side photo isn't mine.] It was a great 3+ hour trip to sea and a great Saturday anniversary activity.

This past Sunday we spent the afternoon at Revere Beach. A gorgeous day. We both got quite a bit of sun but nothing too bad. We both just sat on the beach, listened to the waves, got our feet wet, read, and talked. I think that qualifies as a productive afternoon, don't you?

Overall it was a very nice anniversary week.