Our Trip East

Home after 11 days of Manhattan, Swampscott, Amherst, Boston, Plainfield, & Quonochontaug, it's nice to be back, but we wish we could do it again. Thanks to both our families for such a wonderful trip! And to our fabulous friends - it was so great to see you all.

Below are a few of our favorite pics from the trip (until our camera busted after a trip in my pocket along with some cold, fresh-picked, wet and sandy mussels. Oops.)

"These magnets are cool."

On the beach with Rye


Sweet, sweet Kale in his new artichoke hat.

Also, a scenario from a cold, rainy late night in Quonochontaug:

JP: "Psst! Julie, are you awake?"
"Yeah."
"There's a leak in the basement. It looks like we're in a submarine and water's pouring in and down the wall. What should we do?"
"Should we wake up Dad?"

We trek down to the basement where he's right, there's an impressive leak coming in.
[White arrow: "submarine line" of water outside the window. Brown arrow: water inside the house.]

JP: "I think we should go outside [in the cold pouring rain at 12:30 am] and dig trenches in the mud."
"Great idea. Let me put on this floppy sun hat as my only protection against the rain and grab a shovel."
[30 minutes of bailing water and digging later.]
"Looks like we did a decent job but it's still coming in. Do you think we'll have to call someone?"
"I really think we should wake up Dad and let him know."
[Two minutes later.]
"Psst! Dad!"
"Whoa, wha, wha, what is it?"
"There's a leak in the basement."
"Where?"
"In the basement! It's small. Sort of."
"By the window in the corner?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, that's okay. I know about that. We don't need to do anything about it."

The End