Home. WAHHHH.

We're back on the mainland. UGH. Even a rainy cool week on the Vineyard beats coming home to the rat race! Back to work and school tomorrow. We are sad.

This week flew by - faster than usual for some reason. I think the rain really kept us from doing alot, but we neglected to realize that we'd never fit all the usual stuff in. The week was just gone all of a sudden.

We did get in many favorites though - arrival meal at the Quarterdeck (greasy greasy, but tradition and then it's out of the way!), afternoons on Chappy, the Derby weigh in, strolls through Edgartown galleries, shopping at Island Pursuit, driving to Menemsha, windswept jaunts on South Beach. And then the food - lunch at Edgartown Deli, scones from Katama General Store, zucchini bread and blueberry pie from Morning Glory Farm, dinner at L'Etoile, and plenty of good meals at home. I will be hitting the treadmill in the morning. Tooooo much food.

We also had our annual scallop dinner with Alberto and Marika - known on the island as "the Italians". It's always great to have them to dinner. Rob spends mornings fishing with them - or at least Alberto - every day, but I only get the dinner to catch up on their lives - and this year - their new TV show! Alberto and Marika are professional models turned professional fly fisherpeople. They are such a breath of fresh air - so funny, genuine, grateful and Alberto's obsession with fishing is orders of magnitude greater than Rob's. They stay in a hotel for most of their 3 week stay on the island, so dinner in a house is always appreciated - and relaxing I hope! The boys & I actually ran into Alberto at the weigh in on Friday morning - with a nice striped bass. He was bounding out when he saw me, then he exclaimed "oh! this is for you!" and was going to hand me a large (dead) fish. Needless to say I requested the fish go back to the beach with him and Rob brought it home later. But we had already eaten so much bass that we donated it to a friend's chowder-in-the-making.

But home we are. I'm spending lots on time on kitchen design web sites - we need to get this beast done. Back to the real world.