I now have two loves in life - Cape Cod and Surfing

My first time on Cape Cod happened July 10th. It was awesome. My first thought was "how is that I've lived in Massachusetts my entire life and NEVER been to this gorgeous place?" Of course, that was always most people's responses when they learned that I had never been there! My friend, Kathy, and I left Worcester early in the morning to venture down to the Cape.

When we arrived, our first stop was to Nickerson State Park to see if the people had left the campsite so we could set up tent early. They hadn't. So our next venture was to check out a windmill. I had never seen a real one in person before. I was intrigued. We went, it wasnt all that exciting! LOL. Then we went to Nauset Beach. We were just going there for about an hour. Come to find out the parking was ridiculously expensive. Over $25 so we drove and drove til we found some free parking. We just had to walk a bit to get to the beach! Nauset is a gorgeous beach by the way!!!

After that, we went back to the State Park and I set up our tent. We then continued up the Cape to head to where we were supposed to go surfing. We made a pit stop at the Cape Cod National Seashore Visitors Center so that I could get my National Park passport book stamped (yes, I'm that dorky). We also stopped by and drove by two lighthouses too. It was a nice scenic drive.

We got to Head of the Meadows beach which is a part of the national seashore and met up with our instructor. The instructor was a lot of fun. He was only 17 years old! I told him that I felt like I was doing something illegal with him teaching me! haha. Our first task when we met up with him was to carry the surfboards from the cars to the water. Kathy had a hard time doing this so it ended up being me and the instructor.

Once we got to the beach, he showed us how to get up on the surf board before we got up on the sand. Then Kathy decided to wimp out because the waves scared her. I got out there and had a ball! It was sooo much fun! It took me 3 failed attempts before I got up and rode the wave. My instructor was amazed that I actually finished the wave on my first jump up! I guess I’m a NATURAL! Hehe. It was so much fun! The waves were higher than expected because there was a storm coming and there were reminisce of previous storms. I surfed for 2 awesome hours! I loved it so much that when I got home that weekend I looked into buying a wetsuit and surfboard!!!

After surfing, we drove to Provincetown where we spent the night. We went up the tower and saw a spectacular view of the ocean and a rainbow as the rain was passing us. Then we walked around and went to all the shops. We saw a show called Icons. There were these two dragqueens who dressed up like woman celebrities and performed. It was a good time!!!

I am eager to go back to the Cape! I’m hoping that I can go back in October to see the foliage! It should be nice. I now have two new loves – Cape Cod and SURFING!