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

and then more light

before Catherine Marchetta brought out the fudge and we chose our pieces while finding the right light