*Edit* I had this perfectly laid out in my live writer but when it published all the pictures & text got skewed so bare with me while I try to fix it! Click on pictures that get cut off to view the entire thing - I don’t know why I can’t just get it to work! ::whimpering::
As promised here are the pictures my posts have been so desperately missing!
Here is the turn left that goes onto the canal road from Route 130 Sandwich - I have dubbed this “The Left Turn to Happiness” We are still on Cape Cod at this point but not far from leaving!
I have enlarged this one because I think it’s important to point out the road sign in Tristan’s Mirror. It has an arrow pointing to Sandwich & Mashpee, a place where we will not be returning to anytime soon! Tristan is clearly pleased with this!



Ahh, the Cape Cod garden that I know Wendy is oh so fond of. It’s beautiful right? Just makes you want to hop, skip, and leap right over the bridge and onto Cape Cod. Excuse my sarcasm when I say this is the highlight of Cape Cod. Now you know why we are leaving! If you’re car/truck has ended up in this picture please excuse me but honestly, what are you thinking getting in my shot? I had to take one from the window of the IHOP just to get a car free photo!
This is Tristan’s attempt at making an IHOP commercial. You know the ones, they perfectly hold their companies label proudly to the camera, which is obviously awkward to drink anything in that manner!


Oh that IHOP coffee is so good! Take it in Tristan, you’re driving most of the way! (My husband is cute isn’t he!?)
Now that we are stuffed on IHOP we are finally going to go over the bridge.
I have enlarged this photo because I want to highlight the “Desperate?” sign, there is a lovely group of volunteers known as the “Samaritans” that my sister in law worked with for a weekend maybe and it’s all for depressed Cape Codders who need some support. Do other cities have this or is Cape Cod that depressing? Here are some statistics for you. The state average is 6.2 suicides per 100,000 people. The Cape and Islands suicide rate is 9 per 100,000 people.
Now that you’re all paying attention here are some happier photos.
The Cape Cod Canal - (Trailer parks.)
Oh what a lovely view… Going over the bridge.

Mr. Bear is enjoying the view!
Too many photos!! I’m trying to drag & drop in the
correct spots… we’ll see how this goes.


Sorry if there are too many Canal/Bridge photos but hey this is a momentous part of the road trip! ;)
Finally nearing the end! 
I had vowed to take a picture of every state sign but the minute we passed Rhode Island I missed the rest of them… there goes that idea.

I did get this one though, so you can use your imagination as to what other states we crossed between Cape Cod & Atlantic City, NJ.
We have a few more Bridge pictures of the George Washington Bridge in New York because Tristan has never seen New York and we got a glimpse of the skyline so I will post them here.

Zee Bridge! Not the Tappan Zee but the George Washington Bridge. More and more pictures of bridges, I really don’t like them but what the hell here are some more! Right side of the bridge


Tristan pointing to the NYC skyline which I obviously didn’t get a picture of because Hello! He’s pointing to it after the skyline. Oh sadness. 
And last but not least… the Brooches!! Here are all the sneaky pictures I could sneak. Enjoy!

This is the front of the display, I had to sneak in after hours to get this picture since she wouldn’t allow me to take photos but just imagine underneath all of those clothes thousands of brooches. THOUSANDS! Here are some others with actual brooches.
This is the Holiday section of brooches.

Can you see what originally caught my eye? The thousands of Dragonfly brooches! SO MANY DRAGONFLIES!!! Just remember that this is each a different section of the BACK of the display, so imagine the front for me okay?

That’s it! (So Far) I hope you enjoyed!