A Gurley Gurl

We've been traveling with the same group of friends since 2008 - we've done couples trips and family trips but never a girls trip...until last month, yay! Our group of 5 ladies went to Cape Cod and had an amazing 5 days together.

We left at the crack of dawn on Friday, September 12 and came home late at night on Tuesday, September 17. We packed a lot in - a day in Cape Cod, a day on Nantucket, a day on Martha's Vineyard! Lots of gossip, laughter, FOOD, drinks, and memories made.

Tired but ready to GOOOOO!

Allena ~ Susannah ~ Rhonda ~ Desiree ~ Karin

It took us a long time to get to Boston. We were staying with Dez's family who have a house on Cape Cod, and Dez's childhood bestie was picking us up and staying the first 2 nights with us. With Friday traffic, we didn't get to Cape Cod until evening time, and immediately freshened up and went to a local restaurant, The Raw Bar. Dez's cousin, aunt {who is from Ireland}, aunt's sister and her hubby {visiting from Ireland} and us 6 ladies had a great time and possibly overserved ourselves.

I'm not a huge seafood person, so I had a crab cake and clam chowder.

Everyone else had lobster rolls. We all had a shot {a cherry bomb} that was AWFUL.

After dinner we went back to Dez's aunt and uncle's house and continued to make poor choices ending in us going to bed at 3AM with a 7AM wake-up call to make it to the ferry for Martha's Vineyard. Spoiler alert - that didn't happen! We did wake up at 7AM and knew we were in no condition for the ferry so rescheduled for a later ferry...and still missed that ferry, ha! We rallied and spent the day on Cape Cod in Chatham.

Gorgeous view from our lunch spot, The Chatham Inn

I won't tell tales that could be incriminating, but I'll just say we weren't all at our fighting best. {grin}

Evidence of not being 'at my best' ha!

Sunday was our day on Nantucket! I guess I didn't take a lot of pictures, but we had a great time. We met some girls on the ferry who lived in Cape Cod {and one had lived on Nantucket previously} and they gave us great recommendations for the day. We had lunch at a cute place right by the ferry, then shopped around and of course had the famous fudge on the island. We walked {bad move} to a restaurant called The Sand Bar where we sat with our feet in the sand and had a drink. Our ferry friends told us to also check out Cisco Brewery and that was an amazing experience. Live music, drinks, snacks - so fun!!

Ferry beauties

Karin and Allena

With our new friends at Cisco!

The ferry was running late to get us back to Cape Cod. We were STARVING but couldn't find anything open since it was Sunday night. We ended up Ubering to a DIVE pizza bar. It was hilarious - we walked in the door and the owner asked me 'Are you sure you're in the right place?' I guess a group of girls in sundresses is not their usual clientele ha. But the pizza was delicious, and we make fun wherever we go!

Monday was our last full day. After we missed our ferry Saturday to Martha's Vineyard we changed our plans from whale watching on Monday because none of us wanted to miss MV! And it was everyone's favorite day!

Dez's family was THE BEST and drove us around A LOT.

A ferry a day...could get used to this!

Not a shabby view to start the day!

Loved all the old buildings - so much history!

We had our favorite meal of the trip on Martha's Vineyard!

Wish I could remember what this place was called ha.

Being cute {grin}

We did more shopping {including in the cutest bookstore!} and walked around. Martha's Vineyard is a lot bigger than Nantucket so we had to choose what parts of the island to see, and we really wanted to ride the carousel {closed!} and see the painted houses.

We were real confused about why these painted houses exist and went down a rabbit hole reading about their history. Sounded way too much like a cult, but they sure are cute!!