Family Trip

It's 10:30 on Tuesday morning and our minivan--"Ollie Rainbow"--is stuffed to the gills. All that's left to pack are our darling children, and after stopping in town to buy flashlights, we'll be getting on the interstate and driving east, destination: the ocean. We, like hundreds of other queer families this week, are heading to Cape Cod for the 15th annual Family Week, the largest gathering of LGBTPQ families in the United States.

We've never been to Family Week before--our schedules have never allowed it--and our decision to go this summer was very last-minute (I just faxed our camping registration in on Saturday). We're generally off-season kind of Cape Cod vacationers, but we're excited to get to be there when the ocean is warm and in the company of so many families (though, notably, we're also a little anxious about just how crowded it will be). We managed to snag the very last campsite at a campground we've never stayed at before, and will be spending the next three nights sleeping very much all together in what once seemed like a giant tent (and now? hopefully just big enough). Fingers crossed that Leo is exactly the kind of pro-camping baby we'll need him to be.

If you see us in P-town this week, please introduce yourselves! We'll be the ones with the loud, rambunctious children. We'll be back on Friday with lots of photos and stories to share!

***Thanks to our fabulous new neighbors Sarah and Gabe for looking after our house and chickens while we're gone!***