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4th of July Weekend 2010 | Part I | Our Vacation Home | Plymouth, MA

July 15, 2010 By Laura 7 Comments

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We don’t really GO on vacation very often.   Usually it’s not an affordable option for us anyway.  Do you know most hotels only allow FOUR to FIVE people to a room, or else you need to book 2 rooms adjoining? They say it’s because of fire regulations.  We’re a family of 6. So because we can barely afford one room, we then get into sneaking a kid in, which we feel guilty about, and then worry about a fire, where the firemen will only seek out five of us.   The whole thing is such an irk, but anyway….OH MY GOSH….I wasn’t going to talk much in these posts, and immediately got off topic anyway.

So, back on track, we ask ourselves……”Really, where would we go anyway?”  Because the truth is, in the area we live in, we feel like we’re always on vacation.  Even at home, it feels like to us that we’re just living in a big beach house, and stay through the off season too. There is always wet towels and bathing suits hanging around, sand tracked into the house, the smell of the ocean in the air, sea gulls flying over head….and we’re surrounded by others here, on their ‘real vacation’.

Plymouth MA, America’s Hometown, is a fine place to live.  And a fine place to vacation too!  So when we want a vacation, we just work a little less, pay a little more attention to where we reside, and make the most of it all!

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The waterfront is a glorious place to be, on any given summer evening.   We spend a lot of time down there.  Just as we did the 4th of July weekend.

Plymouth MA The Lobster Hut has great seafood!  People who vacation here frequently, or are just here for a visit, most always have to hit The Lobster Hut.   So if you ever find yourself in Plymouth, and love seafood, try it out!  And call us!!  We’d love to meet up with you while you’re here!  It would be cool to meet each other ‘in real life’.  ; )

Right next door is Cabby Shacks, and that is a real hot spot too, with great food, and entertainment.

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The fried clams and fish at the Lobster Hut are sooooo good.  The kids love them too.
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Pixel comes with us to a lot of places, and she very much enjoyed the waterfront with us.  She’s completely potty trained, so she’s a joy to take along.

Great food, summer evening in the air, the sound of sea gulls, boats coming in, laughing, chatting and hanging out…..

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Pixel was a real hit down there.  Everyone was stopping to see her…..wanting to pet her…..some were just really intrigued by her.  “It’s a Hedgehog?  REALLY?”  “Really, really”,  {A} always says.
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The road we live on, is named after Governor Bradford here.
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Yes, a cat on a leash.  A patriotic one at that.  Seemed like a normal cat.  But the owner, uummm, well anyway,  she was kind enough to let me take this photo.

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There is always great outdoor entertainment in the warm seasons, several nights a week.

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The kids, dancing on the waterfront green….

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….the giggles evaporated into the night air, and floated out over the sea.
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Do you live somewhere that has a vacation feel?  Do you have an area right near by, where you can go to and feel like you’re on vacation, even though you are so close to home?

We really love our vacations at home.

I also I really, really love not having to pack for our family of 6!

Thanks for virtually-visiting our hometown!

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    Shelli says:
    July 27, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    I would so love to live near that. We love the water! We do live near a very big lake called Grand Lake St. Marys but it has a “tiny” algae problem so that people are banned from being on the water. http://www.dailystandard.com/archive/story_single.php?rec_id=12418 So we vacation at Norris Lake once a year and get our fix that way. Love the pictures!

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    Samantha says:
    July 16, 2010 at 10:18 am

    I love that you included a picture of Michael and yourself! I’d love to see the coast where you live. I think we’d be crazy though to attempt a road trip tho’!

    As for us, we are very blessed with both sets of parents owning cabins at lakes nearby. So if ever we are feeling overwhelmed with city living, we pack up and head to the lake. (Like we did yesterday!) No ocean’s for us right smack dab in the middle of the prairies, but we have to make do with what we’ve got : )

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    the inadvertent farmer says:
    July 16, 2010 at 8:47 am

    What a lovely place to live! Our place does not feel like a vacation unless you enjoy the smell of camel doo, lol!

    We do have a little tiny cabin on a lake nearby that we go to when we want to escape and relax, all I have to do is bring food.

    OK so the hedgehog is just too adorable! Kim

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    Laura says:
    July 16, 2010 at 7:56 am

    You are going to laugh….our pan is roughly a 4×6 or 5×7 plastic cover to a card box! You know when you buy a box of cards, that clear cover? lol. (You don’t need a photo of that, right? lol) Because the corner type from the pet store, she had no room to turn around in! So the box cover was temporary, but you know how you get so used to something temporary, it’s not an issue anymore. lol. We just use Stop & Shop (our local grocery store) brand of non-scented clay cat litter. Pixel is about 5 1/2 months now.

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    Mary Beth says:
    July 16, 2010 at 7:46 am

    What kind of pan are you using? I wonder if our litter is too high on the sides for pepper. Mind sharing (if you want to email me ahah) what her pan looks like? Maybe our issue is the high sides and him too lazy? LOL Use cat litter too?

    Our others were potty trained with high sides but didnt have an issue so I am not sure why pepper is so lazy haha

    How old is pixel again?

    Thanks for your help!!!

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    Laura says:
    July 16, 2010 at 7:34 am

    Hi MB! Well, in the beginning when she was about to go potty, (we would know because she would lift her tail, lol), the kids picked her up quickly and put her in her litter pan in the corner. Even if we didn’t quite get her to her in time, she was put in the pan, to make the association. Very soon after, she started trying to get to her pan herself in time. Sometimes she made it, sometimes not. If she made it, she got a (freeze dried) mealworm. If she didn’t quite make it, she only got 1/2, for effort. She was great at running to the pan and getting in, but she was needing to learn to take an extra step or 2, because while she thought she was in, because her feet were, her backside was hanging off the edge back there. lol. So we would always scootch her up a little more. That was it! Kind of like potty training a kid. She was trained in like 2 weeks. She goes on her own there now…no rewards for that. When we are out, the kids can tell when she needs to go, so we bring her to go. She’s pretty good at holding it, now that she’s not a baby anymore.
    Hope that helps you all and Pepper! : )

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    Mary Beth says:
    July 15, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    How did you get her potty trained.. not working with us.. we need to try something else… any suggestions.

    That is awesome you take her everywhere. I want to do that with pepper!! your hedgie is sooo sweet!!!

    Great photos of the whole weekend

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