Boston was a gas!

August 23, 2010 by nanascurse

Returned to Saybrook train station this evening to a happy dh and torrential rain! I had such fun with Nick and Kate. We hung out Friday, looking at wedding photos and eating Indian food from India Quality right across the street from their apartment. Talk about convenience! It still fascinates me to see my son eat spicy, hot foods. For most of his life he hated spicy foods, always complaining that everything was too hot. Then....a couple of years ago, he spent a few weeks in India for his work and came back addicted to their spices and flavors! India Quality has been voted best Indian food in Boston for the past several years, I think, or something like that. We had fun chit chatting and catching up...goofing around. I was able to see Kate's items in person that she makes for her Etsy site. And, it was just fun to be with them.

Saturday morning, I hung out and read in the park area that divides the two sides of Commonwealth Avenue, so they could sleep in. I was up at six...of course! Later, we drove to Peabody, Ma. to Brooksby Farm. We walked a lot and picked peaches. We were three little piggies, eating the warm, sweet, juicy peaches, right from the branches. The area covers many acres and is filled with apple orchards, peach orchards, wildflowers, cultivated flowers, a pond and lots of woods. There's an area with pigs (yuck), sheep, emu (they're mean), a peac**k, chickens, roosters, and a llama (alpaca?)...whatever it was, it had huge, lower bucked teeth. Very strange-looking animal...ugly as sin! There is a store with jellies, honeycomb, pickled veggies, relishes, etc...which I liked. I picked up a couple of homemade dog biscuits for Larry and a pepper jam for Bill. We took some silly photos, but I tried to post them and I'm inept. I officially gave up!

We got home and they both still looked tired from their workweek, so I walked to the Public Garden to read and people-watch so they could nap. Nick joined me about an hour later and we walked around sucking on lemon slushies! There were the usual musicians scattered around, each playing different instruments, different styles of songs, and to varying degrees of proficiency. One in particular, a violinist, was very good. He was obviously classically trained.

There was a woman who was sort of like a mime (I'm not crazy about mimes), but she was different. She was made up like a mannequin carnival character you find in a booth, insert a coin, and your fortune pops out on a piece of paper. Kind of like the one in the movie 'Big' featuring Tom Hanks. She was expressive and graceful, not goofy. At that moment, I thought, "Gee, Mary would like all this live performing going on!". She could have joined right in with her dancing!

We watched three little towheaded boys, no older than three or four, running around a huge weeping willow, laughing and screeching as the leaves/branches whipped their faces and bodies. Everyone watching them was placed, for a moment right under the tree with them, figuratively!.....smiles on every face.

Saturday night, Darcy came over...one of Kate's maids of honor. She told them she was coming over whether she was invited or not.....to drink wine with Doreen! Yay! She drank a lot more wine than me...she's 25, she can survive it better! I made a gluten-free pizza with plum tomatoes and basil from my garden. Yes, I was the little old Italian lady with the paper bag on my lap, sitting on the train, taking fresh produce to my children. Oh God, I'm my grandmother! Before I know it, I'll be picking dandelion greens for the salad from the front yard! We all scarfed that down. Then Kate made a spicy queso.....we gobbled that up too. The gals were watching Revolutionary Road while Nick and I prepared a peach cobbler with the peaches we had picked earlier. Well, we all pigged out on warm cobbler too! We had a pig-out, food fest! It was great. Diet be damned! And, I got to hear first-hand about a new guy who's interested in our Darcy! I had so much fun!

This morning, up at six again, and outside to read so the kids could sleep for awhile. I watched a little old lady doing Tai Chi. She looked to be around 80, but she moved like a thirty year old! We all had leftover cobbler for breakfast! Then, we headed out to Whole Foods, Target, Home Depot, and Michael's Crafts. I'm pathetic...I even love just running errands with them. Kate always offers me the front seat in the car out of respect, which is very sweet. I always sit in back, though. I tell her that I'll let her know when I'm too old and feeble to climb into the backseat of his little red sportscar!

I hated to leave. Nick and I left for Back Bay at two, so I could catch the train. Tons of people were getting off at their T-stop for the baseball game. It was just beginning to rain lightly so I guess they were able to play the full game. Red Sox won. With the injuries this season, it's a miracle they didn't lose...again. The train ride home was great. I finished "Husband and Wife" so I started reading her other book, " The Myth of You and Me", which I had brought along too. I read 100 pages and hope to finish it tomorrow or Tuesday. I like her writing. I convinced Bill that we should try out an Indian restaurant one town from us, to get some take-out. I guess I just didn't want to let go of the 'Boston Weekend Vibe'. The food was actually quite good. So, now I'm home with the dog, who was very happy to get his doggy biscuits! We didn't do half the things we thought we would do....no open houses, no MFA, no comedy club.....why do the hours fly by like that when I'm in Boston? Is there some kind of magnetic pull that makes time pass more quickly in that part of the world? Yeah, right. Well, glad to be home.....sort of.