Jeff and Binna on the ferry, and Jess and me.
The weather was fairly mild on the island. Boston's been suffering a muggy heat wave, and it was still muggy there, maybe in the high 80s, but tolerable. Some of our friends picked us up and took us back to the house, which was hidden behind large bush. On the way, we saw basketball star Grant Hill, who's married to one time successful R&B songstress Tamia. You probably don't know either of them, but it was pretty exciting.
Back at the house, we unloaded our things and ate lunch: burgers and hot dogs on the grill. People sat around and played video games, catch, and I dribbled the basketball (that's where you bounce it repeatedly). Eventually the boys decided to go to a park and play basketball, and several of the ladies came along to play tennis. Jess headed off to the beach with another woman and we met up with them after, to go digging for clams.
I wish I brought my camera but I didn't want to get it dirty, so unfortunately I don't have any photos of us clamming. We went to a shallow area off the beach, where the ground was very muddy and inconsistent. There were thousands of clams under our feet. We brought several buckets, and filled them all up with hard-shelled clams, and also some mussels. The mussels hang in the dirt underneath the grass at the edge of the water, and there were a lot of those to be had as well. I walked back to the car carrying a 40 pound bucket of clams!
Back at the house, we grilled a bunch of them for dinner and stayed in during the evening. Jeff set up karaoke, and while he did that, a few of us went to an upstairs bedroom to watch the fireworks through the window. Martha's Vineyard has a pretty nice fireworks show, and we could see most of it through the window. It was peaceful in the room, with all the lights turned off and our silhouetted heads quietly watching out the window.
We spent most of that night singing karaoke. It was pretty fun. Then we played some drinking games, but most people were tired from their early morning and the sports and clamming activities. I had a couple of beers and fell asleep in the living room. With the karaoke system still on, Jess put the microphone to my snoring for all to hear.
Saturday
Watching videos on the computer
The next morning was a quiet one. The skies were overcast and threatened rain, and most of us sat around, watching videos on youtube. Are you familiar with Youtube? It's a popular internet site with hundreds of thousands of videos that people around the world upload, and there are some pretty entertaining ones, like this:
After people got tired of watching, some of the group decided to go fishing. I stayed in with Jess, and napped and read a little. As the day moved to evening, some people from the fishing party returned, bearing a 30 inch striped bass they'd caught.
For dinner we ate prime rib and some of the fish. And again, everyone went to sleep pretty early, after watching some TV.
On Sunday, our last day, Jess and Binna left early with some friends to head back to New York. The rest of us planned on staying until 9pm. We spent the morning walking down the main street of Martha's Vineyard, which was very small. After, we went to the park again and I played some more basketball.
We finished what we could of the clams and fish for dinner, and spent the last hour cleaning up the house. Ms. Lau was a very gracious host, opening up her 4 bedroom home to 13 friends. Here she is with the family dog, C.J.
C.J. had plenty to eat this weekend.
We arrived at the ferry dock around 9, and set off back for the mainland. Jeff drove me home, and we pulled up to my apartment around 12:30. I stepped inside, brushed my teeth, and laid down the bed and fell asleep.
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