beach house july 2013

This year we headed north to Gloucester (much easier than south to the Cape!) Our first couple of days were spent exploring near the house and going on a whale watch.

Frankie was a real trooper. She was pretty suspicious of the boat at first, but eventually go her sea legs.

Ben was super excited to see some whales, and remembered all of the details about this particular humpback whale named "Nile". He totally surprised us by using his loud voice to shout a question up to the captain! Usually he's so shy, but his love of whales overcame that. He asked "how deep do humpbacks go?" Then drew a picture of Nile and took a nap the rest of the way back to the dock.