| | Oh, how lovely that the weather cooperated this weekend. A little cool on Friday, but perfect beyond perfect on Saturday. We even went swimming. On Friday we went to Rockport, where we perused the various shops, hung out by the water, and had a delicious lobster dinner. It's such a cute little town filled with gorgeous old houses and more t-shirt shops than you can shake a stick at.
Saturday we didn't really do anything until it was time for the fireworks. We had breakfast at a cafe in West Acton that I didn't know existed, where they served the most perfectly ripe and varied fruit salad I've had in a really long time. They're a little on the expensive side for real meals, but they're also a bakery and the coffee is very good. Normally we go to the cafe down by the little private airport, but they're closed until the 8th and we had to adjust our plans. Emily and I did some shopping in the afternoon while my dad hung out here, then we went to the pool before heading off to the park for the show.
I have to say, it was better last year. Whether there were cutbacks or maybe some sort of malfunction (they let off a whole bunch more as everyone was leaving), the finale was a little short, and then whole thing was only about ten minutes long. I seem to remember it was longer last year, and I definitely remember that last year there wasn't a loud, obnoxious woman talking to her child the entire time five feet behind us, telling him how much he should be loving the display. Em and I got some pretty cool pictures, which are up on Facebook, of course, using a long exposure. Well, not a super long exposure, since I don't have a lens with a narrow enough aperture to allow for more than a second or two at the max (our best results were with 1/30 anyway), but some of them are really neat.
Overall, a nice long weekend filled with fun activities. I like having my family come up and visit me, and I'm glad they like where I live, but I can't say I'm entirely sorry to have the place to myself again. My apartment is just a little too small to have so many people here for any length of time, really. I only have one weekend of solitude, though, since my mom's taking her turn to visit the weekend after next, and then it's time for Maine. I just scheduled the GRE retake on August 29, so I'll probably be on Long Island in the middle of August some time, unless I suddenly become hyper-dilligent and spend all that time studying. Haha.
Anyway, I think I'm going to turn in early. I really don't want to go to work tomorrow, but work I must. This is my last week before the family returns, which I'm seriously dreading. It's been so nice not working under a constant looming threat of unreasonable demands and mild emotional abuse. But I guess we all have our burdens to bear. Ah well. I keep looking for jobs and stuff, but it's still pretty deserted out there. I guess we'll wait and see.
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