Cape Cod

I just returned last Thursday from a few days on Cape Cod.  It was my first visit, and it came just after the busy season, so it was really an incredibly wonderful, relaxing trip.  Shawn and I flew to Boston, then took the ferry across to Provincetown, where we met up with our friend, Bill.  The weather couldn't have been better and the food just as great!
We tried to hit the "must eat" restaurants.  The Mews, which turned out to be my favorite meal of the trip, was amazing.
Starting with a Blue Marlin carpaccio, with seaweed salad and moving onto a 4 peppercorn crusted tuna with horseradish mashed potatoes, I was in seafood heaven.  The dirty martini was delicious as well, but honestly, I've never met a dirty martini I didn't like (except for the ones that I make for myself...)  The other dinner highlight was a place called Front Street.  I had an amazing Seafood Puttanesca and we shared a bottle of Malbec.  Our breakfasts were equally as delicious, an omelet stuffed with butternut squash, caramelized onions and goat cheese at a little place called Devon's, a breakfast burrito stuffed with spinach, eggs and black beans at Cafe Heaven and Eggs Schlosberg at The Post Office Cafe.  It consisted of wheat toast, topped with corned beef hash, a poached egg and melted cheese. 
We did lots of walking and sight seeing.  We climbed to the top of the Pilgrim Monument, went on a whale watching cruise (we saw about 15 whales and about 30 dolphins).  We visited a local winery and a restored life saving station.  The trip, as most do, ended way to quickly and then back to reality.  We ended up the week attending the Peoria Symphony Orchestra "Broadway Tonight" performance.  It was very good, and a preview of some of the shows coming up in the Broadway Theater League.  I'm excited to see some of the performances.  As for now, Dan is coming for his first visit to Peoria, so we'll be hitting all the best places for dinner around here...I'll report on those later.  Have a great week.