Free Willy!

Guys, Cape May was amazing.  We were so blessed with the weather.  I got my desperate fill of summer sunnies and a nice tan glow.  Dan and I had a blast and it was just a really great time to rejuvenate and get excited and re-energized for married life and work ahead.

On our last day we managed to wake up early and get to the beach for a breakfast picnic.  The sun was just up and there were not many people out yet.  We stopped and got morning beverages (ice coffee for me and a smoothie for Dan) and some yummy cinnamon rolls and sticky buns.  We took our blanket to the beach and sat together enjoying life.

I snagged a bag of beach sand to put in a jar back home.  Some future craft and a keepsake to commemorate our visit.

All was well except for the crazy birds nearly got away with our breakfast when they assumed we wanted to share.  Scram! 

We headed back to the B&B to pack things up and say goodbye.  Our last adventure in Cape May was to go on a two hour dolphin and whale watch boat before we headed out of town.  We had a few minutes to kill before then so we drove over to the lighthouse again to show Rocky Pants since we forgot about him the day before.  He was happy. 

The dolphin watch was really quite fun.  There was all kinds of cool information about dolphins like did you know that dolphins sleep by turning off half of their brain at a time? Don't believe me?  Click here.   There was a lot of information about the history of the area too.

So I was sort of hoping we were going to see the dolphins up close but we had to give them credit for not swimming up next to a giant boat but that is the reason why the photos are so tiny.  We could see them swimming around us but they were still pretty far away.  The tiny black dots in the photos are the dolphins.

You might be totally unimpressed and would rather go to Sea World and pet the nose of a dolphin (which is pretty cool, I won't lie) but one of the things they mentioned on the boat was the dolphins we saw are in their natural habitat, enjoying life as they were intended to.  A dolphin in the wild can live up to 40 years versus a dolphin in captivity living approximately 5 years.  So think about that.  Free Willy!! Yes, I realize Willy was a whale but the idea is the same.

Here's a little video

And then the boat docked and with that our time in Cape May ended.  We were so sad to leave and wanted to stay forever but life moves on and our duties called us back to Brooklyn.