Adventure is Out There!

Bobby has been watching Phantom Gourmet more and more frequently now, to the point where I wake up every morning to at least five links to delicious restaurants.  A few weeks ago he had sent me a video of a raw bar in Salem, MA that served their seafood in a tin bucket!  It had a whole steamed lobster, corn on the cob, clams, potatoes and sausage!  It all looked fresh and so delectable.  We had been eyeing it and talking about going, but the weather was never quite right or we had plans on the weekend...etc, etc.   Well we finally had a weekend free this week and we decided to take the plunge!  We took a quick weekend trip, as Bobby's car needed to be repaired Saturday morning and we both had work on Monday. When Bobby's car was out of the shop, we left and headed for Salem.  I live about forty minutes outside of Boston and Salem is another half hour north of Boston.  I accidentally had my Google Maps setting on "Avoid Highways" so we ended up t...

To most people, going out of state is exciting.  To myself and my sister, New Jersey is never exciting.  It's a long trip and when we finally get there, we are drowning in family who all want to see us in a very short time period. This past weekend was the first birthday party of our second cousin, Killian.  My mom and sister had met him on their last trip down there, but I had yet to meet him. Prior to the party, my sister and I took our ten year old cousin out shopping.  She's a self-proclaimed diva and an only child.  My sister has limited patience for our cousin, probably because she's ten and needs all the attention on her...and because she's exactly how my sister was at that age!  Everyone was on their best behavior though and so we made it through our shopping excursion in one piece luckily. He's an adorable kid, much like Dopey with his big ears and even bigger good nature.  He's perfectly content to be passed around, kissed, squeezed,...