A last evening with Martha and Jessica

Econo Lodge

Hi Guys,

So we’re on our way home! We had a great weekend with our friends in Dartmouth that went all too fast. All of our visits have gone TOO FAST. Today we made a superfast pass through western Massachusetts stopping for about 10 minutes at Quabbin Reservoir. The visitor center was sort of closed for a school program and there was no one to interact with non-school visitors so we left to go find lunch. We did stop at the Yiddish Book Center on the campus of Hampshire College and that was really interesting: a feel good story! A took a zillion photos.

So soon the last (thank goodness) debate will be on and we’ll watch some of it anyway.

This email are some final photos of our visit in Brookline.

While in Brookline we’ve started the tradition of having dinner at Legal Seafood and inviting Martha’s pal Gerard to join us. I met Gerard years ago when Martha first moved to Brookline so it’s always fun to keep in touch.

Randal is the brown jacket and I’m the red reflection. Martha, our helpful waiter and Gerard.

Pecan encrusted hake, roasted Brussels sprouts, and mashed sweet potatoes. Yummm. Funny enough from never having had roasted Brussels sprouts we cooked them at Julia’s and then I ate them at Legal Seafood. I have to say the ones we cooked at Julia’s were a tad bit better and the salmon was every bit as good as the Legal Seafood fish, but Legal Seafood does a really good job too. It truly is hard to beat a good home cooked meal.

Then stuffed to the gills (an appropriate expression when you’ve overeaten at Legal Seafood,) we returned to home for a photo session. Jessica put aside her horror of having her photo taken and let me take a few. She was as intrigued with my new camera as I am.