Please don’t change Cape May or modernize it too much. The original families who ran the B&B’s lived there all year round. It cost $8-$10 a night with a very clean bathroom at the end of the hall. Alot of the original homeowners sold out to business people. I will always remember the charm of Cape May.

We have stayed at hotels, condos, the inns and will be renting a house this summer. We have enjoyed the seasons there, each season has something to offer everyone.

When I am at work, I long for Cape May and go to the website often to feel connected when I cannot physically be there. Will always love Cape May !

I absouloutly love Cape May! (Did I spell absouloutly right??? :))

Anyways, I've always loved Cape May more than almost anything!! I'm always online at CapeMay.com for info, news, and articles. I just love it!!! Cape May is the most beautiful place I've ever been. I love the days in the summer with the beach, Washington st. Mall, and bicycles riding with family.

But the nights are also great.

With the twinkly lights by the library, watching tv in a town house, and going out to eat.

It's pricless.

I always go on Cape May websites, make blogs, research everyday and just love Cape May. I will always love Cape May!! Going next year for a couple weeks!!! :)

Some of my fondess memories are the dances at the Solarium, playing basketball in the old Convention Hall (before March 1962) while the waves crashed against the pilings. During the summer working on the beach for Coach Steger, eating hot dogs at Petroff's, underage drinking in Henri's, swimming in Congress Hall pool, playing donkey baseball for the Kiwanis, raft fights after work, beach parties on Signal Hill at Higbee beach.

I remember getting my leg caught in the railing of the pavillion which was across the street from our house and the lifeguards had to cut one of the spindles! We were allowed to buy an ice cream from the little shop located at the pavillion each day. One night each year we went to the little amusement park (if you could call it that) and ride the rides. We would go to the Boardwalk a couple of times and you had to get dressed up to go there! Playing skeeball was a true favorite. Then one evening we would go to see the sunken ship at Sunset Beach. I remember my dad digging "a house" for us in the sand on the first day of our stay and we played in it for days-no one filled it in or disturbed it. I remember how scared I was to walk out on the jetties and my big sister teasing me. I remember the whistles and lifeguards running from stand to stand whenever there was an emergency. The same family always rented the third floor every year and we would spend evenings with them, the older famly members playing the card game Tripoly. We would collect clam shells and bring them home and paint them while waiting for Mom to cook dinner.

The annual two weeks in Cape May are some of my fondest memories and I am so excited to be able to return this fall. I am in the process of planning a five day visit back to Cape May in September and I hope some of the things I remember are still there, especially our house.

In the year of 1990, my husband and I had the good fortune of buying a small summer home in the City of Cape May, New Jersey. We were in our middle to late forties and chose a community that would one day be our retirement home. Cape May has been the vacation place of my husband’s family for their love of fishing for well over fifty years. It is nestled at the southernmost point of the State of New Jersey. I truly love the beach and was satisfied along any distant shore.

We looked forward to our week-ends of nestling our way in and the pleasurable journey with getting there. This began with the two hour drive on the busy highways of the Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway that eventually led us to the beautiful stretch of wetlands along our view. You could smell the salt in the air before pointing our sight in the way that we were already here. We were less than one block away from the Cape May Harbor and only a half of a mile away from the Atlantic Ocean and sandy beach. Our home was close enough that we could walk or ride our bikes to the center of town and enjoy the view of the magnificent historic Victorian mansions that were lined up one right after another. We had the same routine to look forward to every week-end.

The first things that we would do when we arrived were; we‘d drop off the suitcases in our house and head straight for the famous Lobster House Restaurant. We would sit on the schooner, sipping cocktails, and watch the boats go by while waiting to be seated in the dining room for the freshest seafood ever! Even though the dress code was casual, I always managed to over dress to set the romantic (date) night with my husband which usually ended up setting the whole evening just right! The following morning my husband would leave for his usual full day of fishing with his family. They also owned a summer home just a short mile away. I was usually left alone with my books to enjoy the beach and the ocean for most part of the day, until early evening when I prepared my husband’s fresh catch of the day for our dinner. My senses were well pleased, except, I began to take more notice of the young children at the beach playing along the shore, digging in the sand, making sandcastles, and riding the waves. As much as I was filled to the brim with joy in owning a summer home in one of the cities most beautiful and historical vacation places, something was beginning to show up more and more; as missing?

The beautiful home that I envisioned as a retirement home of romance and leisure, continued to show me another picture every week-end? It followed me back home and to work and wouldn’t leave me alone! How could this be? My husband never felt the desire to have children, due to his constant traveling, and especially at our age. What had Cape May stirred up in me that lie deep within my soul?

For quite a few years I kept those feelings buried, while my senses continued to be filled with euphoria of the magical settings of Cape May and the excitement of one day retiring here. I would even envision just the two of us enjoying the week days, (without as many tourist) as my husband fishing, and with me reading on the beach, and with the two of us taking in breaths of fresh salt air while bike riding on the promenade along the Atlantic Ocean.

There was always something to look forward to that was happening throughout the whole year. Even in the wintertime. The holiday season is truly a blessed sight to see in the City of Cape May. The historic Victorian mansions and sidewalks are fully decorated and picturesque as the Christmas Carole by Charles Dickens – while in reality we were riding in a horse and carriage trotting along the narrow streets lighted with gaslight lanterns; which is truly a wondrous experience and a vision that is never forgotten. And not to mention the romantic Cape May Dinner Theatres’ on Valentine week-end that sparked romance and enthusiasm for the upcoming summers of sun, beach, reading, and fishing that would spring the season forward all over again. Nothing was left out to fill our senses or imaginations, except for one; there was something more that was longing to be here…

Glowing, a little over three years of living in this dream, I become pregnant in Cape May. I can only conceive in my heart and mind that I conceived through the wondrous love of the city that mysteriously brought forth every sense to its peak in me and my husband. Which miraculously (at our age) a child was born!

Even though the romantic dinners and leisure has radically changed from the retirement dream – to a house filled with much more activity and joy from laughing children , sand filled bathing suits, sno-cones with sticky hands, amusement parks and arcades. Not only from the son that was conceived here, but brought forth sooner the grandchildren from my daughter as well. I love the city so much more because I feel its spirit made way for the soul of a child that wanted to come that we had his Baptism in the beautiful Our Lady Star of the Sea Church on Washington Street.

The blessed reminiscence is hearing the voice cheering from the backseat of our car on the way to Cape May with, Mom, we’re here!

Yes, you are.

And on this special Mom's day my memories of Mom and I shopping, eating and just hanging there give me comfort. Actually spent last Sunday there with my grown daughter; so the tradition continues………

I've been to Cape May for about 10 years. I absolutely love everything about it! We always stay at the Tides condo located on beautiful Jackson st. That way shopping is always at our finger tips! =) There sure somthing very,very, special about Cape May.

I love the wonderful light house tour, going to the beach, and as always the rare shopping experience you don't usually have. Also, great restruants! 5 thumbs up for all i've been too. I also like how there is always somthing great going such as the kite festival or antique show!

Our family likes to go in June beacuse its not to cold and not TO hot!

We will always,forever, make Cape May a tradition every year!

The Victorian houses have elegant colors and shapes that make the environment lively. Colors of orange, purple and blues brighten up the gray streets where the pointy black fences lie old and rusted. Different triangle and octagon shaped roof tops are fascinating to look at, and take you back to Victorian times. The sound of the clanking trolleys going up and down the cracked brick road reminds me of sweet joy rides when I was little. I could almost remember how much I anticipated on getting a window seat. The sensation of eating freshly made fudge always fulfills my chocolate craving whenever I come for free samples in town. Near the beach the sand is dry and hot as I walk with caution trying not to burn my feet. The salty ocean air reminds me of warm summer days by the water. Delicate seashells that surround the seashore are spread out into tiny pieces; each having an exquisite shape. The sun glazed ocean always ties my favorite features together into one great trip.

We would always walk down all the roads and have fun!!!

And my favorite memorie was when there was the kite festaval and i met the designer of skydog kites!!!!!

and thats my favorite Cape May memorie!! <3