Every year the three of us, (four of us, the dog goes too because its one of the few places where she hasn't worn out her welcome) head down to a friends place on the Cape for a long weekend. We've been doing it for a few years now and there are a couple of standard things we have to do.
The first is to surf in a local contest and try not to look too bad in front of a crowd of real surfers. No pictures of this yet.
The second required event is the girls salon. The "older" girls would traditionally set up a shop/salon at the house and do the adults hair, nails, make them sandwiches, get them a drink etc. A few years ago we were giving them 1-5 dollars and it slowly crept up to 10-20 dollars. It was called the girls of summer salon. Well, the older girls are starting to out grow this tradition and prefer to spend their time watching TV and talking to teenage boys down by the beach.
And so the torch was passed to the younger generation...
These are the proud new owners of the girls of summer salon.
The first victims/customers customers. This first season everything was on the house.
Everyone took a turn including the parents, the girls themselves and even the dogs.
The other annual requirement ( last but not least) is sailing.
Finally have some good shots of sailing on Elsa, a Menger 17.
See more info on the 17 here...
http://www.allhandsandthecook.com/menger/Brochures/mengercat_17.pdf
The right one shows a small beetle cat trying hard to catch Justin before finally giving up the chase.
The girls had a great time down below playing with sharks.
There's a lot of room for a 17 foot boat.
When they would come up, we would sail along other boats and pretend we were pirates taking their gold.
Then there is the afternoon/evening sail on Friday.
This is the view down the stairs looking at Elsa Friday about 5:45pm.
Who would go sailing when it looks like this?? We would.
It's a good thing this is an adults only sail because the wind was really blowing this year. According to the Weather Underground it was blowing 25 with gusts up to 32 . You can see a slightly focused expression on Justin here. It's partial concern for the wind gusts and a little concern that I'm standing on the bow taking this picture causing the boat to head up in the wind right towards some moored boats.
The weather was threatening to rain on us as the fog rolled in ( you can see it just starting to cover the coast line in the photo of Justin sailing) and our goal was to just get in a few tacks and make it back to the mooring/the shore in time for a steak dinner before getting wet. While we made it back to the mooring dry, we dumped the canoe paddling into shore and got soaked. We had to swim in the dark, dragging the beer cooler and the swamped canoe. Dinner tasted great.
Moms, kids and a Hemingway impersonator
The girls had a catch and release program with the baitfish.
Cant wait for next year.
We need one of these for the fleet...
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