Memorial Day Weekend

We're a little late posting this, but better late than never. We were waiting for some pictures (forgot the memory card for our camera) from some family members, but everyone is currently out of town!

Anyway, Marin and I got out of the city in the early afternoon on Friday. We made it down to the Cape with relative ease. For those of you that have not been to the Cape in a while, they have done away with the rotary on the "off-Cape" side in an effort to ease the difficult traffic we usually face heading down there. However, they still make you merge to one lane! So, in reality it's not all that effective. Fortunately, many of the people heading down to the Cape hadn't experienced the new roadway either because everyone piled in the left lane for about 2 miles of traffic. However, what they didn't know is that the right line was wide open all the way down to the beginning of the bridge where there is a LEGAL merge to the left lane. In the papers on Saturday there were some people who took issue with those "impatient individuals that flew down the right lane and cut everyone off". I say they're just jealous that they didn't know how things worked and that next time they'll be right there with me doing the same thing!

We arrived and Marin and I immediately changed clothes and relaxed by the pool. Lauren and Frank showed up later in the afternoon with Deacon (we had to make a pit stop in Quincy on the way out of the city and couldn't bring Deacon with us). So, Deac immediately got to go for his long awaited swim in the pool. He would have been there all weekend if he didn't drag him out of there. Friday night was pretty relaxing...we watched the Sox play and win and I got caught up on my "Entourage". We don't have HBO, so I have to watch them all "On Demand" when we're on the Cape. Great show, btw.

Saturday was another gorgeous day...we woke up and Marin took Deacon for a walk around the Bay Lane Loop (a nice 3 mile loop) while I washed the car - something I love to do because in the city we're forced to use a carwash. I had planned a cookout for about 15 of our friends at my parent's house on Saturday night, so we went to BJ's to get hot dogs, hamburgers and all the food we'd need for the cookout. There was no way I was going to go shopping with the rest of Cape Cod that afternoon. We then came home and I ran some errands in Hyannis with Lauren and Frank....Marin was not allowed to join for reasons she will understand around the middle of July. The cookout started around 6ish. Brett and Melissa came over with a few of their friends (right on time!) that were in town James (HS friend) and his girlfriend Liz came...and everyone eventually trickled in. A pretty good showing...it was great to see everyone. Alexis and Billy (Alexis is my HS classmate and they also live in Boston) showed up with their baby boy, Will, for everyone to meet. Probably the highlight of the evening. After a while we all decided to head out to the bars in Hyannis. We tried Trader Ed's first, but there was a line to Valet your car (yeah..valet in Hyannis?) and a 45 minute wait in line to even get in the place! So, we turned back and headed across the harbor to our beloved Baxter's Fish and Chips. At first the place was empty, but then a wedding party from a '95 BHS alum showed up full of Red Raiders and it was like a high school reunion (a good one). I got to catch up with my good friends Betsy, Caitlin and Jon (all HS classmates) and a lot of other people that I feel like I haven't seen for a long time.

Sunday morning our Charlestown neighbors, Erin and Brian Smith came down for the day. Brian and I had a tee time at 1045 with with Brett Gilmore and Jon Sproul (high school classmates of mine) at Hyannis Golf Club. I played like crap, but we had a great time and for reasons I cannot explain I cannot wait to get back out there and torture myself all over again! Marin and Erin (who is 5 mos pregnant with their first) took Deacon down the street to Alexis' families home (the Karr's) and to meet up with Alexis and Billy and their yellow lab, Jackson and the Karr's two springer spaniels and took them all down to long beach (same beach that we took Deacon to for Mother's Day weekend). It was an illegal move, but no one called the cops on them this time. When Brian and I got back we found Marin and Erin chilling out by the pool with a soaking wet Deacon. We then grabbed some Four Seas ice cream and Erin and Brian headed back to Boston.

We woke up early Sunday and headed back home. I hate traffic and we succesfully avoided it by leaving as early as we did. Not much else to report....a pretty tame weekend! Marin and I enjoyed a nice time at home on Monday and of course celebrated the rememberance of all of those that have died serving our country in the armed forces.