We arrived at Mom and JT's home with our menagerie happy to see the Vineyard and their smiling faces. We had a fabulous time visiting and were lucky to be able to be with them for mom's birthday, Father's Day and the 4th of July. Here are the highlights from our time there....
Midnight so comfortable at Grammy's house
Father's day brunch with JT's daughters Connie and Anya. Mom the Eggs Benedict were delicious.
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| Father's Day JT ,Mom, Anya, Connie and Peg |
JT has a huge tracking telescope and he set it up on the back porch so we could take a look at the Perigee moon through the telescope. This is when the moon is closest to Earth so the moon appears much larger than on a normal full moon at the usual distance.
We took the ferry over to Chappaquidick to see Dike Bridge, the bridge Ted Kennedy never forgot. We also drove around the entire island which only takes about 20 min. It is beautiful with many ocean beaches. Each beach charged for parking, swimming and did not allow dogs. Calcite was with us so luckily we had a reason not to challenge ourselves to get into the 60 degree water.
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| Edgartown from the Chappy Ferry |
We took our driving island tour seeing our favorite vista's, farms, gardens, towns and fabulous houses.
Peg's grandmothers lagoon
Aquinnah Cliffs and Lighthouse.
This is where we had lunch but this picture was taken on a different day
Menemsha
Peggy spent a lot of time in the kitchen with Mom throughout the time we were there. Mom taught her how to use a wet stone and how to cut up and use every part of a whole chicken! Thanks mom.
This event was not a highlight but must be included and that is both dogs got sprayed by a skunk. First Zoe then a few nights later Calcite got hit. Calcite still does smell a bit skunky and Peg has washed her with all kinds of soaps, detergents and kitchen cleansers. Yes, we tried vinegar too and didn't bother with the tomato juice as we were told by a vet that tomato juice is an old wives tale.
We were able to join Mom and JT for their weekly Friday night date at the PA club. Cocktails at the PA and then home for JT's famous fresh swordfish sandwiches. Delicious and even better topped with JT's homemade relish. Everything is better with JT's relish. We put it on everything!
After Zoe was sprayed by the skunk she became lethargic and stopped eating. We took her to the vet and low and behold the blood work showed she had pancreatitis. Only our dog could end up with pancreatitis! So, she was in the hospital on IV antibiotics for 3 days. That dog has 9 lives. She is now back to her perky self.
On her way back to the vet
We enjoyed lunch with Peg's Uncle Bobby who works on a boat bringing tourists to the island from the mainland. He is on the island for about 2 hours before they have to return the tourists. We have not seen him in a couple of years so it was nice to be able to catch up. He is 68 and still diving for clams which we enjoyed the fruits of while at Mom and JT's.
The town of Oak Bluff's has a fun festival to kick off the summer season. All kinds of local artisans display their wares right on the boardwalk at the marina. We went and really enjoyed looking at all the people and boats. We had lunch on the water feasting on mussels and island home brew.
Our favorite boat reminding us of one of our favorite friends. This one is for you Rum.
For the 4th of July we had a hot dog feast with Richard, the only fireworks we saw lasted 2 minutes and were in the yard next door. I would like to give a shout out to Richard who went to the Island's tennis academy to pick up some tennis balls for Calcite as we were "ball-less" (yeah, I know what you all are thinking). Thanks for the special delivery Richard! :)
Peg, Richard and Calcite wanting to know why Richard stopped petting her!
Our last day on the Vineyard Mom took us out to lunch at one of our favorite locations. It is a restaurant at the top of the cliffs at Gay Head now called Aquinnah. It was a foggy, windy day but we didn't care. We were the first ones to sit outside on the porch overlooking the water. You could still see and hear the waves as they came ashore and you could still smell that fantastic sea air. We all ordered our favorite sea foods and enjoyed each others company. Thanks for lunch Mom.
Lunch in the fog
Confident that the trailer was to be all fixed sometime the first week of July we set about trying to get ferry reservations off the island. I had no idea how hard that would be now that summer is in full swing. The only opening was for July 5th at 6:00 a.m. and that includes the entire 2nd week of July too. We feel so blessed to have been able to spend so much time with mom and JT and we left them with a heavy heart, but anxious to get on with our adventures. We went straight from the ferry to the RV to check on Suni's progress. Everything was fixed except the final problem with the bedroom slide-out. They had ordered a new motor that was due to arrive at 10:30, so we decided to go back to Scott and Cathy's house for the weekend and pick up the trailer on Monday to get an early start to Maine. Well the motor arrived damaged and had to be re-ordered! We pushed our Maine reservations out a few days and hoped for the best. Scott and Cathy were spending the holiday weekend at their beach club in Rhode Island, so we drove down on Saturday to Narragansett for a lovely day at the beach.
Pete the Carrier Pigeon who showed up at Scott and Cathy's and stayed.
Very tame and friendly.
Feeling like we had burdened Scott and Cathy enough, we took our dear friends Marianne and Janet up on their offer to let us crash at their Hamilton house while they were working and staying in Boston for the week. It was a beautiful safe-haven and so nice to have some time alone without feeling like such an imposition. They have a beautiful home and we would like to thank them for sharing it with us.
Since Gloucester is only 20 minutes away from Marianne's and Janet's we decided to spend Tuesday with our favorite baby Lillypad - oh yeah it was also nice to see her parents and Omi too. We love those Ginsburg's. It was a great day ending with Lilly's first crawl! I was playing with her on the floor and she decided she wanted to love on Zoe sleeping a few feet away. The motivation worked and she just crawled on over! It was so exciting. I screamed "Lilly's crawling". Everyone rushed over, I picked her up, brought her back and off she went again making her way to Zoe.
We finally got word that the trailer was ready so we headed to pick it up at last! She looks beautiful. We loaded everything up and headed to Maine - finally!
Coming soon.... Portland and Acadia, Maine
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