Delaware

Oh happy day! With this post, I am officially caught up on my #SeeAll50 scrapbook pages and blog posts! This has been hanging over me since last May and it feels good to get back on top of things. Now I am ready to plan our next trip, although I have no idea where we are headed next for this project. We are going to do a little international traveling this year to meet a new little niece or nephew so we'll probably stick closer to home with whatever states we check off. 

Anyway, let's get down to business. This will probably be the shortest state post to date. Most of Delaware just looked like this for us: 

We literally drove from the very top of the state all the way down to the bottom. (Which takes less than 2 hours if you were wondering.) If you caught my Maryland post last week, you saw that we checked out of our hotel in North East and drove down to Assateague Island. Well, we were driving through Delaware. It was a gorgeous day and we had fun driving through all the small towns and seeing Georgetown and trying to find pretty, colorful leaves (I mean, it was late October and we don't see a lot of fall foliage in the Sunshine State!). But if you go back to our very first #SeeAll50 post, you'll read that just driving through a state is not the point and we don't check off states that we just drove through. So our plan for Delaware was to hit up the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk. 

So after we spent the first half of Saturday (October 19, 2019) exploring Assateague Island and spotting wild ponies, we drove back up into Delaware to get checked into our little motel for the night. We stayed at the Sea Esta II which wasn't anything to write home about, but all we needed was a bed for one night and it did the job. We got showered and changed and headed back out to find the Boardwalk. 

According to my quick research before this trip, this is one of the top spots to visit in Delaware and it was a lot of fun. I imagine it would be even more fun during the summer because there were a few places closed while we were there since it was off-season. However, right in the middle of the Boardwalk, they had a huge pool set up and there was a dog competition going on to see who's dog could jump the farthest into the pool. Everyone was out on the Boardwalk with their furry friends and we saw some dogs jump nearly 20 feet as their masters threw a toy across the pool to fetch. We wished we could have had Major and Colonel with us. It was a blast. 

We walked all the way down the Boardwalk, ducking into the different funky shops and arcades. We got 2 pounds of fudge (hey! it was BOGO, okay??) from The Candy Kitchen and stopped at Grotto Pizza for some of the yummiest pizza I've ever had. Grotto is an award-winning family-operated business that now has locations in MD, DE, and PA. 

After we had our fill of the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk, we drove back to our little motel and crashed for the night. 

The next morning, we got up bright and early to go find the Mason Dixon marker on the Delaware History Trail.

It's literally in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere. And as you can see, it's completely gated off. Because when you don't have very many important things in your teeny tiny state, you really protect the things you have. Honestly, this was the most memorable part of Delaware for us. This little stretch of road had the Mason Dixon marker and the Welcome to Delaware sign and we were high-steppin' it through wet fields in the rain to check out this stone and get a picture with the Delaware sign, laughing our heads off the whole time. Delaware, you were a delight. 

Delaware : done.

14 states down, 36 to go.

Have you ever been to Delaware? It felt so small! I know Rhode Island is even smaller so I can't wait to go there. Where should we go next?