Part 2 of my weekend went a little like this...
After picking up more t-g margaritas, chips and salsa, EBJ and i were off to the Jitney (a overpriced 'luxury' bus that takes you out to 'the hamptons' when its off season and the trains aren't running as often as they should). EBJ slept for a bit and i read my new book - "The Last Lecture".
My momma picked us up at the Jitney stop and we headed home to cook dinner - She is off to Santa Fe and The Grand Canyon for 2 weeks (Sil - maybe Momma Breff should write the 'Travel blog'). EBJ made a fire, and I cooked flounder, mashed potatoes (for the first time!), asparagus and made a salad. then we drank far too much wine and looked at embarrassing photos from my childhood. I was a skinny kid, with big pink glasses - quite a looker.
Sunday was adventure day! we had big plans to get up early (for some reason EBJ thought i was waking him up at 8am...um its the weekend and we are at the beach you is crazy!) - we slept in, toured the compound and checked out the chickens.
Yes, you heard it right, our neighbors got chickens. Now i don't really live in the 'suburbs' per say - but we don't live in the country either - and chickens running around are not the norm here. Apparently our neighbor received a bunch of chickens as a gift, which entertains me because who gives chickens as a gift? They came with a coop too - but no chicken wire (ha!). So for the first few weeks they liked to sun bathe on the other neighbors back porch - this led to a bit of an uproar and they now live fenced in. i don't know if they produce eggs (can all chickens? i should google this) but i do know that around 9am they buck buck backaw. and you can get them to do a call and repeat out my window - so that was entertaining.
We finally made it down to the beach for a photo shoot and then we were on our way - Wine Tasting here we come. We went to one i can't pronounce let alone try to spell - but the only thing they had going for them was a pretty barn so we were off to Pellegrini - we had some wine and soup crackers and then one thing led to another and EBJ had not only joined a wine club but purchased 16 bottles of wine. After loading it all in the trunk we were off to the next stop. We came upon a 'petting zoo' that i had been to but couldn't remember where it was, and it appeared there! so we purchased our feed and went about feeding an assortment of chickens, ducks, goats, 2 mini horses, a turkey, 4 bebe geese and a pig. 1 horse was nice, the other was a jerk - kicking the turkey and head butting the goats - we found out later we could have actually gone in the pen, but I don't think we could have made it out of there alive.
Next we were on to Raphael Vineyard - they are famous for their reds, so we bought a white. Then to Martha Clara which was overun with monsters - so we got some sausage type food and mustard and drank until we couldn't hear their shrill little voices.
Later we headed back to the city - EBJ pointed this out, but as much fun as i have at the beach, and as much as i enjoying getting out of the city - there really is nothing like coming over the bridge and seeing the Chrysler building and all the apartments lit up - getting away is nice, but coming home is better.
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