So I'd hoped to have this post up long before now, but between just catching up and the spectacular storms of this weekend, I kind of never got around to it.
First, the storms. Boston got missed but the June 2012 Midwest derecho, but it squarely hit back home. We discovered that having a setter in the city with full internet access was extremely useful. I have spent the last 48 hours relaying information back home (in fact I JUST got off the phone again, to report severe weather moving into the county), whether it's news, additional weather alerts, or just the outage numbers. If you haven't seen the reports, this is a spectacular mess. We've have successively nastier storms in Ohio over the last 10 years, but everyone I've spoken to repeats the same refrain: I've never seen anything like this. Speaking from the outside, where I get an excellent bird's-eye view, neither have I.
The last monster derecho in Ohio was in 1969 (though there was one in 1995 that I don't remember, so it must not have been so bad; I'm guessing it was dissipating by the time it got to central Ohio.) Incidentally, so far as I can tell, the last major hurricane to affect the Boston area while it was still actually a hurricane was Donna in 1960. Who wants to be Boston gets a cat 2+ hurricane while I'm here?
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Anyway, the reason I was supposed to be posting this was that I had visitors last weekend. My sister and brother-in-law came up and we ate eastern Massachusetts. Or so it seems.
Saturday we went out to Cape Cod -- something I was really looking forward to, since it's pretty much out of reach for me unless I want to rent a car (you can get there by bus, but at some distance a bus becomes more trouble than it's worth). The coast on Cape Cod is beautiful. There's really no other way to say it. What photos I got didn't do it justice.
In addition to just walking along the shore, we saw swimming seals, a working lighthouse (so New England) and three historic lighthouses (the Three Sisters). Again, I say, I can't do them justice. Come visit me and we'll go there and you can see it all yourself.
Since we were in the land of rich people we decided to eat well. Stopped at the Bookstore and Restaurant and ate dinner looking over the bay. Wow, the surf and turf. I was in cow heaven. And lobster... I'd never had lobster before. And they actually cooked the damn asparagus correctly, the only time I've had edible asparagus that didn't come out of the back yard. All this while sitting in a little town right on the edge of the water. You feel like you're in a book. And maybe you are.
Sunday morning we went for Dim Sum at the Winsor Dim Sum cafe -- a must for Dim Sum lovers. This is a to-order place -- no carts -- but that means your food is fresh and hot.
Sunday afternoon at the Publick House on Beacon Street. Beautiful area. I was still so full of Dim Sum that I only ordered the cheese board, but it was awfully good. That and a Kriek made for a good evening.
Sugar and Spice for dinner on Monday (I worked, so the guests took themselves to the aquarium) for Thai -- HOT Thai. I'm glad I got something without any pepper symbols, or I'd have gone hungry that night.
The Kitchen Mouse has more on the food: http://the-kitchen-mouse.blogspot.com/2012/06/eating-cape-cod.html She'll be picking up the eats for the rest of the weekend once she gets lights and internet again.
