Cape May Ferry and Inlet at Ocean City

 Always a fun ride.

No driving for Tom and it was a beautiful day.

Stayed out on deck instead of hiding inside.

 It was almost sunset at the inlet and it was

cool watching the boats go in and out.

 Conveniently there's a boardwalk close by.

Another gorgeous sunset as Assateague.

Stamping around

I received one of those brayer stamping rollers in my

Studio Calico kit and decided I really like it.

So, of course, I needed more.

I have a few now with assorted shapes on them,

and the one below is a chevron.

And I ran it all over the page using vintage photo distress ink.

And then I dug around in my stash for more stamps.

The adventure stamp, another Studio Calico Kit goodie and

popped that around. It also had the compass going on in the kit

and didn't that lend itself nicely for a travel page.

 I did 3 stamping sites.

The 3rd is covered up under the journaling that has all the layering love

going on.

Sigh.

And the Paper Issues swag bag - well if you aren't getting them,

you need to check it out = $9.99 + shipping

and you get a ton of lovely goodies to use on your pages.

The journaling cards, the anchor and lovely gold accents and star maps.

Then there's Jillybean soup. 

Yum.

So this is the second page in the "broken foot tour."

I know you didn't forget my broken foot that I whined about forever.

Well DH decided that to rest it - we should take a trip

to see the grandkids. Actually there are quite a few pages
from the broken foot tour - and they're all going together
in the album.
GASP.

And Niagra Falls.

And the Great Smokey Mtns.

It was a fun trip and a piece of the trip where we took the ferry across the

Delaware Bay to Cape May.

Upon exiting the RV, I had a heart stopping moment when

my camera/baby/expensive toy flew out of my hand

and landed on the cement deck.

I was beside myself.

Fortunately in checking out the damage only the filter on the lens

broke - the rest was fine - so I changed lenses,

wrapped that puppy around my neck a few times, 

just in case it decided to fling itself about again,

and enjoyed the ride.

Doesn't that lighthouse make you swoon?

Cape May lighthouse & victorian mansions & a confession

I adore lighthouses, and I think they were so romantic back in the day. However, it was hard work, long hours and in a lot of cases isolation and no indoor plumbing which would totally be a sticking point for me. I'm not that hardy. 

BUT I still adore them. 

The lighthouse was a dot on a piece of land when we crossed in the ferry and of course I tried my hand at trying to zoom in and get a picture. It wasn't working out so my awesome DH hunted it down on land. Since I became the booted wonder I didn't do a lot of moving around so there aren't many different angles.

Of course I took 139398473973874 of just this one angle and I decided to spare you.

You're welcome.

We then drove down the shore line. On my left are these stately manors and on the right - the ocean, of which there are no photos. But these glorious mansions, hotels and B&B's were never ending and totally breathtaking.

Most of these B&Bs and hotel/motels have been around a long time, restored and updated, and absolutely beautiful in all their Victorian glory. An expensive stay no doubt. 

On the corner are these two conjoining as twins and named Angel of the Sea hotel. 

Are they not gorgeous?

In full disclosure I experienced bad boat juju. As I stepped off the RV onto the deck of the ferry, my precious baby and expensive camera and lens flew out of my hand and hit the concrete deck.

I had a slight mini meltdown full blown freakout and thankfully only the filter on the lens broke which was determined after quite a few photos taken randomly to make sure all was well.

In fact, this post, was done after my debacle. The first photo was not the result of the catastrophe, but my bad manual settings. 

I can't tell you how relieved I am.

Once we landed at my SIL & BIL's the proper tools were found, and the dented filter was removed from my 18-135 canon lens and all is well. I didn't look. I couldn't.

On a positive note, 

my heart has returned to its irregular heartbeat.