A bevy of rainy day recs
What I ate, wore, saw, and swore about on vacation
A wild series of bests for days when the weather isn’t. And a few for when the weather is. Admittedly highly Cape Cod specific.
Best place to listen to your kids complain about you not taking them to The Red Barn where they want to nurture their claw machine addiction at the arcade and fight about who is winning at mini golf: The Cedar Swamp Walk at the National Seashore. The dark, mossy cool of the cedar woods will soothe both the complaining child’s soul and the soul of the adult legally bound to that complaining child.
Best place to trigger a migraine: The Red Barn’s arcade, where you’ll take the complaining kids after the Swamp Walk because they have $19 on their card from last time it rained and you promised!!!!! (You did not promise).
Best design on a turtle’s shell 👇
Best place to make your scared-of-thunderstorms children doubt their mother’s ability to keep them safe during a thunderstorm: Wellfleet’s The Beachcomber, which is perched at the edge of the Atlantic, and at which you and they will huddle for 48 minutes (or 48 years?!?! hard to say!!!!!) under a blustery covered deck squashed in with approximately 1,327 people while you all wait for a table. The raw bar is bomb though. So is the merch. The memories that pop up unbidden of your time spent at the ‘Comber under drastically different circumstances are something else entirely. Like that time one of your friends vomited in the bathroom triggered by the sight of something too disgusting to mention here, or the time another friend made you and the rest of your pals wear all-white for her Beachcomber birthday party, or that time another friend hit on a bartender we all referred to as the Viking to absolutely no avail. OR that time you and your infant friends rented this vehicle to get your inebriated selves safely home.
Best item of clothing to leave at home: pants that aren’t soft.
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