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Cape May Memories

I bought a beautiful ornament in Cape May. It has painted Victorian homes on it, just like the lovely homes you see when you walk down the street there. But it's not my Cape May ornament of choice. I rather like this one, a painted clam shell with a very faint picture of the sea. A ribbon is glued to it and beneath the rough painting it is written "Cape May 2011".  I bought it when we went on the Cape May candlelight tour from a young man who was selling them. He was a proud young man with an obvious developmental disability but he seemed really know something about the Christmas spirit, as he sold these items with proceeds going to his school..
It brings back to me the magic of Cape May and the lovely time we had enjoying the atmosphere.  It was a trip with my friends ("The Bees") to celebrate Christmas.
 We stayed at a wonderful Bed & Breakfast called Beauclaire's.  We each got our own room, to which we added a few decorating touches. We  brought gifts and refreshments and did a "room crawl" the first night we were there after we got back from dinner at the fabulous Mad Batter.
The next day we enjoyed breakfast
and went for a walk, stopping to admire the many decorations of the season. After a leisurely morning we had lunch at The Blue Pig in Congress Hall.  Then we did an afternoon of Christmas shopping and a carriage ride around the town.
We followed our busy day with the Candlelight House Tour that evening.
After our host, Joe, served us a truly gourmet breakfast on Sunday we all went our separate ways with happy memories of our time together.








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