This weekend Sweetie, Blue and I headed up to Rockport. We left here on Friday morning and got there about noon. That afternoon we went to Old Garden Beach with my mom. It was a nice, warm day and although the water is always cold on Cape Ann, it wasn't exactly icy so we were able to go in and even swim around a bit. Often times I dive in and have to come right back out. The only bad part about the water was that there were a lot of rocks on the floor which made getting into and out of it difficult.

Afterward, we were able to get a free WiFi signal at the condo, so I checked my e-mail on Sweetie's Mac Book.



That evening Sweetie and I went for a long walk on seaside roads. It was a pretty good workout (we walked for almost an hour) and Sweetie wasn't prepared for such a long trek, but he adjusted pretty well and didn't complain. After we got back, we stepped out again to get some ice cream. Well, I got ice cream (chocolate chip with chocolate sprinkles) and Sweetie got a blue vanilla slush.

On Saturday we did something completely different- we sailed on the Appledore III! I credit Sweetie with getting us to do this. My mom said she always wanted to go on it, and Sweetie said why don't we, so we did. It was another sunny day, but after we got out of the harbor we heard the rumble of thunder. Sweetie and I started jokingly singing the Gilligan's Island theme ("a three hour tour, a three hour tour"). The water was pretty calm, and the sight seeing was beautiful, but the thunder started getting more frequent, and the sky to the west started getting darker blue. After a while, the captain got a message from the Coast Guard that there was a strong storm coming and that we should head back. He said if we didn't, he could lose his license. I said, "The Coast Guard? What do they know?" Kidding. Too bad though because our tour was cut short by about half an hour.

Then we went out for a late lunch / early dinner at this good Chinese restaurant. Afterward, I got ice cream again. This time it was Crunch-a-saurus which is a blue vanilla (what is it with this blue vanilla?) with chocolate covered rice krispies. Then we came home and I fell asleep on the couch for a while, and then Sweetie and I headed out to see The Simpsons Movie. It was playing at the Gloucester Cinema which looks like a real dump from the outside, and turned out to be a real dump on the inside too - dirty, messy, unkempt. Fortunately, I didn't need to use the restroom, which would have been a scary prospect. The were a gazillion teeny boppers in the theater with us, but everyone was pretty well-behaved which was a relief. I enjoyed the movie, but it didn't really seem that great to me. It was just a slightly longer and bigger TV episode.

It was a good weekend, but it's nice to be home too.

Watching: The Simpsons Movie (2007) starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith.
The West Wing, Season Three.
All in the Family, Season One.

Labels: family, summer, watching

posted by Miss Rachel 7/29/2007 08:41:00 PM

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