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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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Filed Under: Celebrations, Holidays, Life In General, The Big Picture Tagged With: Catholic-blogs, Catholic-families, great-places-to-live, hedgehogs, Plymouth MA, Plymouth-MA-waterfront, tourist-towns

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