Nantucket

I've posted the Nantucket pics on Flickr, if anyone cares to check them out. (Click on the slide show feature.) I was pretty proud of how a few of them turned out. That first half of our mini-vacation was incredible (the weather had a lot to do with that, though...). I would definitely recommend a visit to this picturesque little island.

Here are some memories I just wanted to jot down...

• Seeing the house that Steinbeck wrote East of Eden in (now called Eden East)
• What the heck is a Plover?!?
• Staying in the "Forsythia Room" (for half what it usually costs!) at the beautiful Brass Lantern Inn
• The cool bookstore lady who gave me the "Librarian Tattoos"
• Not getting to see the "Blue Lobster" (stupid aquarium...)
• Gail's Van Tour - a native Nantucketeer
• LOTS and LOTS of daffodils!
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• Salt-shaker houses with Victorian gingerbread trim...
• Pretty little window boxes everywhere
• "Closed for the Season" signs - Doh!
• Cranberry Bogs and "Organic" Cranberry Bogs...
  
• Scrimshaw and Nantucket Lightship Baskets
• Blue skies
• Tim in his Popeye coat
• Brant Point Lighthouse
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
• Giant Sperm Whale (teehee)
• Summer homes of Heinz, the Stillers, the guy that owns GE, and even the Gilbreths!
• Going to a FREAKY Harold Pinter play
• Ships in a bottle
• Our fellow Australian tourists - Robin, Peter, and Goronwyn
• The Wampanoags all died here...
• The local "haircut" - they must all go to the same stylist!
• That local crazy lady must be loaded!
  
• The Nantucket "Sleigh Ride"
• The Jamaican workforce - "Oh, everybody has a girl!" (gasp)
• Moving houses across the street so they don't erode into the sea...
• The Portuguese Cobblers
• "The calm before the storm"
• New Guinea Archaeologists
• The oldest house on Nantucket with am upside-down horseshoe to ward away witches
• A "Whale's Tail Pale Ale - pretty yummy!
• Amazing fresh cranberry muffins and chocolate covered cranberries... Delish!

Well, those are some fun memories of our day and a half in Nantucket... But to quote one of my favorite shows growing up, Reading Rainbow, "don't take my word for it!"