“This is how
we know we are old,” my husband declared as he showed me our tickets for the
Cape May Trolley Tour. On October 26th,
the date of our anniversary, we decided to take the day off to spend some
quality time together. A few weeks ago
we visited the Physick House in Philadelphia.
During our tour we learned that there was a Physick Estate in Cape May
and we decided that it too would be an interesting place to see. You can take a tour of the house and grounds
or you can do a combination with a historic trolley tour and an Estate tour and
we thought…why not do both?
When
everyone was assembled on the trolley we were handed brochures explaining the architecture
of Cape May.
The tour was
interesting and I learned a lot so I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys
history, architecture and/or just learning in general. The trolley dropped us off at the Physick
Estate and our tour guide Barbara escorted us around the massive Victorian home
telling us bits and pieces of information about the time period and the family. I wouldn’t recommend visiting the home during
the month of October because it was decorated like a haunted house and the
decorations really distracted and often covered up some of the interesting and
historic décor of the home. It seems
that it would be beautiful and spectacular at Christmas. We felt a bit rushed through the house tour
and we were not able to spend any extra time looking around, examining and soaking
up all of the Victorian Era fun. Despite this it was still worth the visit.
The Physick
House grounds were decorated with scarecrows.
This was our favorite.
The trolley
picked us up after the house tour and returned us to the originally departure
point in downtown Cape May. I have never
been to Cape May in October and found it quite charming (even more than it
usually is). There were plenty of sweet smelling
hay bales, tall cornstalks, bright colorful mums and roly poly pumpkins. Each shop had their own scarecrow dressed to
match the wares or theme of the shop.
We stopped
at our favorite natural handmade soap shop to stock up on bars of soap that
smelled of pumpkin spice, fall harvest and orange ginger.
After our leisurely
stroll we felt that we were ready to finally eat something post our eating extravaganza
the night before. We have always passed
Lucky Bones and now it was time to finally walk through the door and give it a
try. The food was great and it was
interesting to see, instead of the usual sports on TV, everyone around the bar
glued to the weather channel watching the approaching storm. We started out with the small nachos, I had
the crab cake and shrimp sandwich and for dessert (one of the main reasons for
eating at Lucky Bones) we shared the Costa Rican coffee ice cream
sandwich. After I housed more than half
I realized I never took a photo.
“It
looked so good, there just wasn’t time,” rationalized my husband.
It ended up
being a fun and relaxing day, just what we needed, and we look forward to taking
the trolley tour and perhaps seeing the Physick Estate (not decorated as a
haunted house) again in the future.
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