Brian And Meaghan's Big Day....

This morning we ate breakfast, packed up the rest of the stuff in the cottage and left for the lower cape by 8:30. Knowing that check-in at the hotel was not until 2:00, we planned on stopping somewhere to keep the kids occupied. We decided to stop by the glass museum in Sandwich. The big draw to the place is the fact that they have live demonstrations on glass blowing. I was very interested to see that first-hand and I knew the boys would like it also, especially Nicky. Much to my disappointment, there was a sign next to the register where you walk in “No Glassblowing Today”. We were already there and the price was pretty decent ($4.75 – although they should offer a discount when there’s no glassblowing – that’s the whole point of going anyway) we decided to stay and check out the museum. Anything ever made from glass was at the museum. Lots of colors and shapes. It was pretty neat. They even had a little treasure hunt game for the kids which was good. It was a sheet of paper with pictures of different objects that could be found somewhere in the museum. It definitely did the trick for keeping Nicky interested in seeing all the different glassware in the museum. He would have been pretty bored otherwise.

After the museum we figured we would stop by the hotel and take a chance that our room would be ready earlier that normal. No such luck. So we went out to lunch at a local diner and went back to the hotel. 1:00pm. Still not ready, but I filled out all the info for the room anyway and did all the check in processes short of getting the room keys. Even though we didn’t have the room yet, we were still allowed to use the pool. So Jennie took Alexis for a walk into town while I took the boys into the pool. The pool was not as advertised and was not heated. It was quite freezing, but it still hot a nice chill to it, which of course did not stop Nicky from jumping in. We hung out in the pool until a few minutes after 2:00 and we dried off and stopped by the front desk to get our room keys. The room was still not ready. What happened to the 2:00 check-in time? No big deal. They gave us a room that had been cleaned and was ready. It was only a few doors down from our original room and it made no difference anyway. We finally got settled in and Jenna finally arrived.

Brian and Meaghan’s wedding was at 2:30 (which we knew we couldn’t make it to) and the reception was at 4:00. Jennie and I got prepped and ready for the reception and then we drove Jenna and the kids to a playground and dropped them off. Then we hopped on the bus and rode over to the reception. The Guineys rented out an old historic farm out for the 3 day weekend and the reception was held under a big tent out behind the big barn. It was a very lovely setting with a large pond. It must have made for some great wedding photos. There was lots of drinking. Lots of food. Lots of dancing (no so much by me). Lots of fun. By 11:00 we were ready for bed and hopped on the bus and headed back to the hotel.