After meeting with Uncle A. we stopped for some great Chinese Food and headed out to meet Kathy, Jay, & Grammy (Molly's Parents and Grandma). We loved meeting them. Meeting "the boys" was another story for Sofia and Mireia. "The boys" are Homer and Rufus, two black labs who are very nice dogs and fun to be around, if you are not terrified of dogs as Sof and Mireia are. I am not a big dog person either, but I enjoyed these 2 immensely! Both Sof and Mir got much more comfortable as the weekend went on, thankfully! We all had to face a fear or two this weekend! On Saturday, we spent the day on the beach! Mireia, Sof and German made a sand castle and we all hunted in tide pools for interesting sea creatures. We saw little fish, lots of hermit crabs and snails! I decided that, since the tide was out and other people were doing it, that I should walk/swim out to a rocky looking thing just off the beach area. It turned out to be more swimming than I anticipated and Andy and Molly were just thrilled that I dragged them along! As we were really getting to the point of no return, Molly saw a jelly fish and warned us to watch out! (Gulp!) Jelly fish?! They sting, right?! I was so paranoid that I was a tad ridiculous about swimming in between Andy and Molly and thought that every wave was another one! Once we finally got out to the rocks, we wandered a little bit and caught our breaths for the haul back to shore. Again a time for jelly fish fear! It was a relief to be back on sandy ground when we could walk again and I felt like a heroine for getting out and back with out a rescue. (Rocks may appear closer than they are in reality!) Andy and I both encountered stinging sensations across our legs at one point and while it was uncomfortable, it was not worth the fear of running into a jelly fish that I put myself through. (Something about fear being worse than fear itself?!) Apparently the stingers of jellyfish can just be floating in the water, unnoticed! In the afternoon we were treated to a motor boat ride around Long Island Sound, Ala Jay! It was great! We started off in a river that led right out into the ocean. It was hot and still in the river area, with the fear of green fly bites and German's general unease of being in or on the water at all. After some motor oil tinkering we were out in the open water! Sof loved the speed! She kept wanting to go faster! The spray form the water and the rush of wind was so refreshing! We saw a couple islands, one inhabited with egrets and one with a historic lighthouse on it that humans are only allowed on once the birds have migrated south and then only for one day allowed by the group that is striving to preserve the area. (Forgive me for not remembering the names of islands or river.) I really got a kick out of looking at the charts (not maps)of the water we were in and Jay taught me how to identify different buoys based on the markings on the charts. It was cool. Sof fell asleep nearly standing up resting on my knee and we all got our fair share of sun. German did great as well and even took off his life vest shortly after we got underway! We went back to the house to prepare for a feast of lobster, another new experience for me! Molly did a great job showing me how to rip apart the lobster and I enjoyed it! Sof didn't go for it as much, she preferred the corn on the cob! Yummo! Mireia and German are seafood fans, so they really enjoyed it and had less trouble than I did getting to the juicy meat!! Late that night, Sof had a shower under protest, since she refused to get in Grammy's special tub we had tried out the night before and ended up nearly flooding the upstairs of the house with (see Molly's blog) and she finally went to bed. Then I had a chance to visit with Andy and Molly more on the deck in the dark. Andy found Jupiter in his telescope and we all had a look, pretty cool! The next day we had time for a walk on the beach, and saw many washed up jelly fish, I just couldn't get away from them! (See Andy's site for photos.) We played fetch with Homey and Rufy and regretfully said goodbye as we loaded up to head to Boston for part 3 of our trip!
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