It was time for a week at the beach which excited us all. We did our last errands, made the stop at Sam's Club and headed down to this year's beach house which was a bit tiny -- aka a mouse house, but was extremely well located. As opposed to previous beach years, I was tamer about photo ops and so this story will be shorter than those of previous beach vacations. Michael and Carolyn had been at the beach, so they stayed for Saturday dinner
as Suzanne
Ben
and Sarah
acclimated to the house while Michael and Carolyn posed for the artistic photo
and Lucy and Jane were in the kitchen
as the vegetables were spread
and Ben posed
though he was less interested in the wine
than the pretzels
and no one seemed interested in the deathers in my hat
as the corn was shucked
and the gin
and limes
were brought out for the gin and tonics (no diet tonic)
which led to a group toast
as the corn was prepared
and Carolyn
opened the Tapanade
even as I explored the view
while Jane and Lucy came up to the deck
to inform us that dinner was served at the table
with various seafoods
French fries
more fish
mozarella and tomato
cocktail sauce
which made for this beautiful plate for me
even as the college bound girls ate at the table
and the rest of us spread around the living room with less light
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