I arrived at EWR Liberty on time on 9.29.2010. Of course, Vicki and I went to have a lovely dinner at The Geloks. We lived next door to them and used to babysit their boys. Lorraine is THE BEST and Rocky is quite the character. Since I'd not unpacked, I was unable to memorialize our evening with photographs. Rocky grilled some spectacular salmon and Lorraine came through with wonderful sides. A ton of laughter was heard in the old neighborhood.
Early-ish on Thursday morning, we headed out to get some Polish goodies that cannot be found in the Seekonk area. The weather was humid, rainy and downright awful. However, once we crossed the Tappan Zee Bridge, the rain stopped. Unfortunately, the mugginess continued.
Seekonk: Laura and Josh FINALLY got home from school and the fun and frivolity began. Laura has grown a foot since last year! And Josh!!! Well, he's quite the little boy - absolutely all boy!
On Friday morning, the rain had stopped so Matt decided our jaunt to Cape Cod would be in order. His sister, Darcy, lives in Falmouth so we stopped and visited with her for a bit, met her chickens and toured the house addition. They live on a pond on Shallow Pond Road. Blissful. We then went into Falmouth and the clouds began gathering above. We strolled the streets and visited a few [not enough] shops and then the skies opened. Luckily, we were two doors away from Liam Maguire's, an Irish Pub, where we'd planned to have lunch. Matt said the Lobster Roll was world famous. However, since they're HUGE, Vicki and I split one. It was absolutely wonderful - every bite! Since it was still raining heavily when he finished, we didn't do any more walking - just a quick sprint to the car. Matt drove us around a bit. Darcy's husband is a Marine Biologist in Woods Hole, so we visited his facility. On the way back to Seekonk, we stopped in Fall River at Patty's Pierogi's and brought home four dozen for Polish Night on Saturday. [They were good, but nowhere near as good as Vicki and I have made.]
Vicki and I were roused early by little feet so after playing with the kiddos for a while, we started getting the Polish Night dinner started. We made fried sauerkraut and a boatload of stuffed cabbage casserole. We used to wrap the rolls but we've honed the long, tedious process to a lasagne-type dish with all the same ingredients, sans pasta. We also did cabbage and noodles with Polish sausage. The neighbors from across the street were guests and Debbie courageously "googled" Polish desserts and brought a wonderful Placek z Jablka, which translates to Polish Apple Cake. It's not really cake though, but a cross between cake and pie and completely delish! Carol made a wonderful pumpkin pie and Laura put together two batches of brownies.
On Sunday morning, we HATED to leave but headed south and west at about 10:30 a.m. We stopped in Wickford, RI and had a great time touring a street that has homes from the 1700s. I took photos of the harbor, some flowers and then we went into the Wickford Market and took sandwiches with us to eat on the run! No other stops until we got to Hackensack.
After unpacking [AGAIN] and getting into sweats [temperatures had dropped, thank you, God], I decided to get all the photos I took and put them on my laptop. Here's where MY temperature rose! I'd taken about 50 or 60 photos but only about 12 were downloadable. It appears my memory card had become corrupt. I'd taken such cute shots of Carol and Laura [Carol usually holds the camera] and lots of cute shots of the kids. Curses!!!! Vicki didn't take as many of the kids as I'm usually The One. She took several shots of flowers but you've seen flowers before.
So, we're heading back to Seekonk on the 20th and then on to Vermont on the 21st to replace the photos, if possible.
Today, we just did laundry, ran a few errands and relaxed. Tomorrow, we're taking Lorraine to lunch and a movie [You Again] for her birthday. There might be a little shopping as well.
Sorry about no photos but maybe Long Beach Island and Philadelphia later this week will provide fodder for my NEW memory card.
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