Cape May- It's Time for Coffee Tyme!

Mom and I were up early this morning, ready for our first full day of Cape May. After walking Bee (and attempting not to wake up the rest of the house with her pre-walk whimpers), we headed out for a walk down to our favorite coffee shop.

Last year we discovered the best muffins at a coffee shop called Coffee Tyme. Conveniently located right on Beach Avenue, we would walk there every morning for our morning caffeine and muffin. This particular muffin was a chocolate vegan muffin. (Don't let the vegan-ness scare you away....if I didn't mention it, you'd never know.) It was always so moist and delicious. We were so in love with them that we had to go home and find a recipe to make them on our own. (Which we did...and ours is quite delicious. Let me know if you want the recipe.)

So all year, we've been looking forward reuniting with Coffee Tyme and our muffins. As we descended upon the shop, we were filled with excitement and anticipation of this momentous occasion!

We walked inside and stopped in our tracks. Upon scanning the case of baked goods, we were confronted with the realization that there were no chocolate vegan muffins. The horror! We didn't know what to do. That was all we had thought about! How were we going to enjoy our day without them!?!

Okay, so maybe it wasn't that  bad, but we did have to ask the owner if there would be any chocolate vegan muffins tomorrow. She said maybe. Left without any other option, we perused our choices. They had a lot of muffins to choose from. I went for the blueberry while mom went for the cranberry orange.

But the more that I gazed into the case, the more I felt drawn to the cinnamon roll. So at the last minute, I asked to switch out my muffin for the cinnamon roll. And I'm so glad I did.

The cinnamon roll was soft and the icing was sweet and gooey and delicious! You know how sometimes you can't eat all of a cinnamon roll because the edges are dry and crusty without the icing on them? It didn't even matter if there was icing on every inch of the roll or not because it was so fresh!

The Coffee Tyme shop owner suggested we eat outside since it's so pretty today, but I assumed that meant we'd sit on a bench on the boardwalk. Mom had other plans. Once outside, she led us onto the beach and sat a few feet in front of the tide. It was so fun! We'd never eaten on the beach before- and we've been coming here forever!

Look how huge that cinnamon roll was! 

There's something so relaxing about being up early at the beach. It's quiet and you can hear the rolling of the waves. It feels like your own personal paradise. So we sat and ate and sipped our morning drinks, all while planning out the rest of the day. 

Afterwards (which came much too quickly) we rented our bikes for the week and chatted with our favorite bike rental man, Joe. It was cool because we've been renting from them for years and he remembered us. It's always nice making a personal connection like that. And when you've been coming to Cape May for as long as we have, it starts to become your second home. 

When Aunt Susan, Uncle Johnny, and Jonas got up, we biked 20 minutes to the light house, hiked up 199 steps to the top of the light house (Jonas counted all the way), and then biked back to the house. After all of that exercise I'm prepared to eat pretty much whatever I want for the rest of the day! :) 

There's so many new places we want to try this week- I'm hoping we have the time (and the stomach room!)

Til then.