September 5 - Chauncey Creek

September 5 - Chauncey Creek

Sean and I walked into Portsmough today from Auntie Ellie's house, about a 3 mile walk. We stopped by the farkers market and got some lovely tomatoes and headed into the small town for brunch. We met Mom and Auntie Ellie at the glass studio and then headed across into Maine for some outlet mall shopping. It was glorious. The first stop was Villeroy and Bach, who makes our every day dishes pattern. We walked out spending $54, and the sum of the original prices was $495. Thank you factory store!

We went back into town and Sean became very concerned that the local ice creamery had run out o ice cream, so Auntie Ellie, Sean and I went to Annabelles just to check, and each got a scoop.

As fun ans shoppng and ice cream were, they were by no means the highlight of the day. The best part of theday day was dinner

After ice cream we went back to Auntie Ellie's and started getting things together to go to Chauncey Creek for dinner. Chauncey Creek is a lovely restaurant in Kittery Maine. The only thing that they really serve is Lobster. So everything else you have to bring yourself. We set out a beautiful sea themed table cloth on a large picnic table on the pier. Auntie Cathie and Uncle Wayne drove up from Boston, and my Grammie's friend Irine came to join Sean, Mom, Auntie Ellie and I. We lit the candles of the center piece that we brought and set out a smorgesborge of wine, green salad, cheese puffs, black-eyed-bean salad (Mississippi Cavier). The lobster came out after a while, and we enjoyed teaching Sean how to eat it the Maine way, dipping it in butter, breaking the back, eatting the claw meat, sucking all the meat out of the legs like a straw all while wearing a plastic bib.

For dessert we dined on funfetti cupcakes, chocolate dipped strawberries and chocolate truffles. We caught up, chatted, sang Happy Birthday to Auntie Ellie.

After dinner Mom went back to Boston with Auntie Cathie and Uncle Wayne so that she could catch an early flight out the next day. Sean, Irine, Auntie Ellie and I headed back to Ellie's house for a cup of tea. After Irine headed home we made some popcorn and watched two episodes of "the Tudors" and then hit the sack!