Pink Flamingo Parade

Yup that's right... a pink flamingo. Apparently the Southwest portion of the island officially adopted the Pink Flamingo as their icon. Why? They live on an island and the winter's a pretty freak'in cold... To quote Mike from Maine "In the winter all we do is pretty much gamble and drink". I assume this decision cam from either a very bad bet or an excellent mixed drink. Either way we're glad they did it because we've never seen anything like this.

We're heading off the island and we'll hit the parade as we leave. Perfect. We packed and headed off. Go-at a parking spo-at and found a good space to see the parade. The family we rented from had their son participating in it. They had a pink golf cart in the guest house's garage which was the book mobile that encouraged reading. Logan their son would be driving it. That's him in the picture!

A retired couple in front of us encouraged Elle to sit next to them on the curb so she did. She's getting bolder and not so clingy. She sat with them and then some kids to her right. All them got along great because they were collecting candy that was being thrown from the floats. The kids got candy and I got blindsided in the side of the head with a Frisbee. EXCELLENT PROMOTIONAL IDEA! Projectile flyer's being flung from the parade. I was fine, just let me get this Frisbee for Elle.. Whoops.. there's an old lady picking it up and walking away with it. Enjoy that Frisbee at 82. You looked pretty limber bending over and picking it up. Oh well. I actually smirked as she took it. One of those moments you feel your on camera.

The parade was great. Lots of fun businesses and float ideas. And sure enough we saw a group of people on a float singing... Hey those are the people from the Deck House. And wouldn't you know it... They broke singing to say hi to Ellie. We hear "Hello Ellorie!" Too funny. We felt like we were already a part of the small community. It was a great feeling.... well not the Frisbee to the noggin . We also bumped into Victoria And Dave who we rented from. It was nice to just chat with them for a bit now that all the business was over maybe it seemed easier to just talk. Victoria had lost her voice so she didn't have much to say. It sounded like it hurt. She's a Gardner so she must really talk to all her plants. Ha

The parade ended and we walked the flea market atmosphere of tents and tables. Maybe before we hit the road we should have lunch. Good idea... I see a sign that says $8 – lobster roll. J and Elle got hot dogs. $8 lobster roll... I should have gotten 2 for that price. It was good.

We run into our waiter from last and and another singer from the show. They had never seen anything like this either. And couldn't wait to get back to the local madness. We're off. In the car and on the zoo that we promised Ellie we would go to. Not the best or friendliest zoo we've been too. Next time I'd skip it.Elle liked it so that's all that counts.

5 hour drive from the zoo ( no traffic- we did well) . No nap either but yet the wonder child didn't have any break downs. She played on her own and pretended to read her books. J dished out the occasional treat for all of us. Nutter Butter's and Cheddar Fishes.

When we got home we unpacked and I visited Kit to thank her for watering the yard and plants. It was hot and dry here so she did it every other day. We gave her a bottle of wine from the Sweet Pea Vineyard.

Until the next vacation.

I worked on the grapevine today. Pruned it to expose them to more sun. I'm guessing we'll have more grapes this year than 2 years ago which was around 18-20 lbs. There's a ton in the yard.
I'll post a few photos of what we've got so far.

Night,

Mike