Here’s to another great stay at The Happy Cottage

I managed to get two-weeks-plus worth of posts out of eight days in Cape Cod for my dear wife Karen, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I. The Happy Cottage in Dennis Port is the center of it all. It’s set on a private lane, with parking for two cars out front. That came in…

Excitement builds for the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod

We paid our rent for the Cap Cod vacation recently. And our gracious landlord Julie sent over a photo of an update she made to the Happy Cottage. She expanded the front porch with her own two hands and plenty of sweat. We missed last year because I’d just started at the library. Our week…

At dinner time on Freedom of the Seas, mostly I ate

Our scheduled dinner time on the Freedom of the Seas was 5:30 p.m. We got there on time. We ate our table. Mostly, we enjoyed our appetizers, entrees and desserts. Yes, sometimes plural on the same night. Every night, we had the choice of eating either a buffet at the Windjammer Cafe or extra-charge meal…

A mix of the high and tight in St. Thomas

For our excursion in St. Thomas, my dear wife Karen and I decided upon a cable ride up the mountain that would land us on the highest spot on the island. It sounded in the brochure on the The Freedom of the Seas as if it would offer an exciting vista. Our friend Joe was…

Dance, dance, dance on Freedom of the Seas

I’ve been known to break out into the happy dance. You’d think I’d be a natural on Freedom of the Seas, where dancing is a big part of their regularly scheduled programming. My dear wife Karen found that out again, and again, and again. And as it turned out, I’m not so much a mover…