Memorial Day Weekend Part I

Memorial Day Weekend 2007

Friday.
I had a vacation day and Andrew took a half day. I picked him up at the Readville train station, we went home, packed up the Explorer (no we didn’t buy a new car, I borrowed my mother’s car for the day) and hit the road. We were flying down the highway until we were 5 miles from the bridge. 5 freaking miles. It took us 45 minutes to go 5 miles. It was an excruciatingly painful 5 miles. But we had both iPods and listened to some new Lincoln Park, some Buffett, and we watched the temperature go from 92 in Canton to 108 right before the bridge. We finally got over the bridge and around the rotary and we were off again. We went straight to Bike Zone in Mashpee where we dropped a lot of money and picked up our newly tuned up bikes (with 4 brake pads each…. And you thought brake pads on cars were expensive!) and went home. As soon as we got everything inside we broke open our new helmets and set off on the bikes. We were only out there for 20 minutes, but the smell of the ocean, the salty sea breeze stinging my nose, the sight of the boats in Vineyard Sound… it just does something to me. I can’t explain it, but it was such a good ride. My seat needs to be lowered, so my back started to hurt which is why we were only out there for a short while. Maybe tomorrow I’ll fix that. I’ll take my camera tomorrow and take some pictures. Tomorrow is also Painting The Room day, which will be an adventure. Tonight was Tape the Room Night, which was really boring and doesn’t warrant any more blog time.

We went to FYC for dinner – it was really nice, but apparently Friday night is old man night. We just had some beer and I had a chicken sandwich. So all in all it was a nice, though slightly boring Friday night. I wish I could tell you tomorrow I’ll have something more interesting to say, but I probably won’t, as it’s Painting Day.


Saturday
We started paining at around 8am. It took about two hours and it came out pretty nicely. When we were all finished, I headed off to the beach for about an hour and a half. While it wasn’t as nice a beach day as I was hoping for (about 70 degrees) I made myself lie there for a little bit. I read and eavesdropped on the two women sitting next to me. They were kinda funny. They were talking about the best way to tan for optimal color while they were chain smoking. Apparently they haven’t heard of “cancer” yet. And to make it better, they were both nurses. Fabulous. Yes, I was sitting at the beach too, but I was wearing 30 sunblock and I was wearing a t-shirt to protect my shoulders and back. And I had a hat on. Because I have heard of cancer. And I didn’t even study nursing in school. Amazing.

So after lunch, we took the bikes out again and we found a conservation land that kinda small and definitely geared more towards walking than bikes, but it was still fun. It’s the most mountain terrain our mountain bikes are going to see for awhile! We didn't do a whole heck of a lot after we got back from our bike ride. We've come to the conclusion that I really do need a new seat on my bike so we are looking into that.

Before dinner we went out on the boat, but we stayed in the little inlets and harbors around us. It was really nice - the sun was setting, we had some appetizers and wine and I got some really great pictures. Unfortunately they are in my internal hardrive in the computer because I had forgotten to put my memory stick back into the computer, so the pictures will have to wait until I go back to Canton and hook the camera up to the loading dock. I will endevor to be better about the pictures tomorrow and Monday.