The Duc Pond

I’m home from my weekend in Sea Isle City. It was cool and Sea Isle is a nice town.

First on Saturday I drove to Cape May to check out the museum Melissa works at. It’s small but has items from as early as the mid-1700s to twenty years ago. Some of the cool things I liked were the Native American tools, the exhibit Melissa made (featuring among other things information on an important Cape May teacher), the Fresnel lens from a lighthouse, the military stuff (Revolutionary War muskets to Vietnam War helmets), and the old medical equipment.

Then once Melissa was off work we drove to her beach house in Sea Isle. That night we managed to walk around parts of the city looking for food (settled on Wawa sandwiches), eat outside in the back yard, walk on the boardwalk/beach for some exercise, play some skee ball and thus win enough tickets for 2 bouncy balls, get some fudge and chocolate-covered strawberries, and then return home to watch a couple episodes of Felicity.

Sunday morning we had breakfast at a local ’50s-themed eatery called Shoobies and made it to the beach at around 12:30. It wasn’t all that hot out (weather.com said it was about 82 or 83 degrees F) which was a problem because the ocean was freezing (64 F according to tonight’s news). My legs were going numb for the first few minutes I was in the water. But then as the pain of the cold began to go away I could submerge myself and eventually got used to the temperature. Melissa was less resilient and spent only about half as much time in the water. I ended up jumping in twice. I like being hit by waves. Finally today, we ate at a pricey seafood restaurant called Marie’s Lobster House. To be fair it was probably mostly expensive because it’s seafood, but regardless it was more money than we probably should have spent on dinner. Melissa had sauteed soft-shell crabs that were great and I had a seafood combination platter with lobster, shrimp, flounder, scallops and crab meat. All the food was great. Now was it $70 great? Probably not, but we were in a shore town and I like seafood.

So yeah, it was cool. I should spend more weekends at the beach.