November 23 - 25 Thanksgiving in Wildwood

Oh, Wildwood days.  When I was in college,  I spent a summer in Wildwood trying to earn a buck.  Unfortunately, it was the summer of the gas crisis and no one went to the beach.  I was a terrible waitress and there were no jobs anyway.  So I ended up getting a job as a maid in an ocean front hotel.  I needed some more funds so I got a job working as a dishwasher.  I actually liked that job.  It was mindless work.  It was an exciting summer of beer drinking and making beds and washing dishes.  I lived in a one bedroom apartment with my college roommate Ria.  We actually shared a bed because we had no choice.  We were poor.  (I hope I did not snore then.)

My sister Michele and her husband John own a house there and we visited for Thanksgiving.  The place was empty of course since it is not season.  I did not remember much of it.  It certainly does not look anything like it did when I lived there.

We started out driving on Tuesday night.  You figure that would be safe--two days before Thanksgiving.  Not.  The traffic was so bad it took us two hours to get about 20 miles up the road.  We gave up.  the next day we left around noon and headed for the Lewes, Delaware to Cape May Ferry.  The weather was not good.  Skies were overcast and the wind was whipping.  The ferry was really rolling.  Matt is not the best sailor so we sat in the car where you could not feel it so much.


On Thanksgiving, we went for a walk on the beach in Cape May to look for sea glass and shells and to just absorb some sun.  It was a nice but windy day.

for dinner we had  Cornish hens and then played Scattergories.

The next day we shopped in Cape May in the morning and then got back on the ferry for the ride home.  Now that's better--good weather and sunshine.



















On the way home, we stopped for lunch at Dogfish Head Brewery in Rehobeth Beach.  Love the Ancient beers.