We flew to Gloucester, MA to spend time with Beth's Dad, Michael. We love visiting Michael and Gloucester plus we got to see Beth's brother, David, wife Susan and our nephew Nathan.
Usually we NEVER miss 4ht 4th of July in Sonoma as Beth LOVES to lay under the fireworks as they explode over our heads. However this year was different, we were in Gloucester for the 4th.
They have what is called the "Horribles Parade". As you can see in the attached link, there are LOUD marching bands, cheering cheerleaders, Little teams and lots of families, dogs, it seems to me like the whole town comes out to see it. I love that Gloucester puts out chairs for people to use. It's been almost 80 years that Gloucester has held the Horribles Parade. For sure the kids love it as its like Halloween without dressing up and knocking on doors. They just wait on the side of the parade and candy is thrown to them. We love seeing so many patriotic people, all in the red, while and blue, waving flags.....proud to be an American!
Of course we can not visit Gloucester without a visit or two to The Causeway Restaurant. Beth loves the Baked Haddock, me I love almost everything......fried calamari, fried shrimp, fried clams, clam chowder.
We love spending time at Good Harbor Beach
We we walk the beached around Michael's neighborhood you must pass Bass Rocks golf course, if your a golfer I'm sure it is a great place to golf with the ocean as the background.
Another thing I love, that we NEVER see in California is a summer down pour....enjoy.
We also took in a free concert in Stage Fort Park
We also like to visit Rockport, MA, which is just a few minutes from Gloucester....it's quite photogenic
How do you like this rocking chair made of old lobster traps.
July 12, 2018
From Boston we flew to New York as we are attending a surprise 90th birthday party for my Dad's cousin (but close family to us) Elaine Leiberfarb.....but first a few days in Manhattan.
The streets Manhattan....so colorful in the summer
A visit to the Chelsea Market
We then took a very nice stroll along the High Line.
The next day we visited the International Center of Photography and saw photo's of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lastly, we were fortune to see 2 different plays; first was Hello Dolly with Bernadette Peters, it was amazing. Then we saw Once on This Island it was creative and different, but not something I loved...it maybe that I really didn't know to much about the story
We also had time to visit the Whitney Museum, we saw the photographs of Harold Edgerton. zPlus check out some of these War protest posters and other images.....do you think they could be effective today?
Saturday, July 14th
90th birthday party for Elaine at Michael and Crystal's home in Bellmore, NY.....PLUS they made an announcement!
90 year old Elaine enjoying a Margarita with my sister Claudia (who also flew out for the surprise)
IT'S A BOY, CONGRATULATIONS MIKE & CRYSTAL
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