So I got to go up to the Vineyard with Ede's family this year, and of course it was completely awesome. Her parents and brothers and their girlfriends are hilarious and generous and it was so nice to be in a big family environment.
Not to mention the house and beach and island are bee-yootiful! And that we ate ridiculously fresh food (um, yesterday's harpooned swordfish anyone? Anyone?) and gorged ourselves on Chilmark chocolates. Fried clams, blueberry pie, sole with tomatillo salsa (Jed just whipped that up the first night), local steaks, super delish heirloom tomatoes, pizza bianco, and wine, wine, dark n' stormies, wine and mojitos.
All the houses of course are done in this cedar shingle style which gets gray with age and looks so New England to me. There were lots of options for getting to the beach, including kayaking across the pond, walking, biking, and of course driving 5 minutes. In the pond there was a swan family, a cormorant family, and a school of jumping fish that got serious air - one particularly vigorous little minnow skipped, kid you not, 12 times across the top of the water.
Zeke and Otis chased some quail and an osprey and some herons made recurring appearances in the field behind the house.
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