Rehoboth Beach Without the Kids

 Rehoboth Beach has become a special place for our family, having been the site for not one but two summer vacations.  It's a cute town with everything we need in a getaway, including beaches, carnival rides, ice cream, and the local Y.  So this past summer and three summers ago, it's been where we've gone for a week or two and we've had a blast.

But Amy and I had a sneaking suspicion it would be a fun place for just the grown-ups too.  So we took off last Friday morning after dropping Asher off at preschool and barely two hours later were pulling up into a familiar place, yet without three kids and tons of boxes and suitcases in tow.  How freeing!

It really was a great weekend.  We made a beeline for the hotel to park our car and then pick up rental bikes for a leisurely ride through Cape Henlopen State Park to Lewes, taking the Junction and Breakwater Trail on the way back.  All told, it's supposed to be about 15 miles but we probably pushed it to 18 miles because we got lost a few times.  It was so freeing to ride a bike, in nature, with my wife, and without a care in the world.  We stopped for a bite in Lewes by the water, having worked up quite an appetite, and got back to Rehoboth Beach just as our room was ready to be checked into.  It was fun to do the whole window shopping and boardwalk walking thing with just the two of us; we got ice cream and play Skeeball to our heart's content, with nary a guilty bone in our body that our kids weren't with us to partake in the fun.  We topped the evening off by grabbing pizza and candy to go and heading back to the hotel room to watch a movie and pig out.  Good times!

Saturday I went for an early morning run to Dewey Beach and back before getting breakfast in the hotel.  We headed to the outlet malls and had a round of mini-golf in the morning before retiring to the hotel for a very long and very necessary nap.  (A possible boat tour leaving for Lewes - which would've only been $5 per person - was nixed because I was too non-committal to book in advance, and by the time I called the morning, all the seats were filled.)  We hit the Y after waking up and then went for a stroll around town before ending up at a bar and grill for dinner in a real, sit-down restaurant with adult conversation.  How nice!

Alas, the weekend eventually had to come to an end.  We ended up walking around a little bit after dinner before retiring to our room to watch TV and then turn in.  I grabbed a quick swim at the Y the next morning before breakfast, and then we jetted home to be reunited with our kids.  We will surely be back, Rehoboth Beach, the only question being whether next time is with or without Jada, Aaron, and Asher.