6/21, Wednesday - World Bagel and

After a late morning in Essex Sandy drives us over to Conomo Point to show us their new house.  There are a lot of rules to summer living, year round living in Essex.  There house has potential.  The property is in an exceptional location.  I think that is why they bought the house.  Location is everything.  They have a view of Essex River Basin marina from their front lawn.

We drive to Danvers to get our Enterprise rental car and mention lunch.  The Enterprise Rep pipes up and recommends World Bagel and then says his favorite is the Chicken Salad.  We decide that is the right fit for us.  The restaurant is busy but we order our sandwiches (or bagelwiches) and grab a seat.  We also get some extra breakfast bagels for the Essex house.

What we don't realize until then is that there are no grocery stores in Essex.  Sandy leaves us to find our way back to Essex and goes to do some grocery shopping. Gary drives to Ipswich to find the train depot and see about riding the MBTA train in to Boston tomorrow.

We meet up with the Osborn's at Canomo Point.  They drive us to dinner at Gloucester House, a nice restaurant on the pier at Gloucester, MA.

The wait staff is new, and dazed and confused.  They ask for our drinks order then go away.  They guys get their beers but ladies drinks are slow in coming.  They ask Ozzie if he wants a beer with that glass?  Ozzie's eyebrows fly in to question marks.  We order an appetizer of fried clams, they are out of fried clam appetizer he says.  So we order a dinner entree of fried clams and that seems to work for them.  I try some fried clams for the first time ever.

We finally get our drinks.  Dinner comes in a couple of deliveries.  He comes out last with my sizzling platter of fried shrimp which is smoking like a wet forest fire.  He is trying to see through the smoke waving his free hand before him.  It is all to comical.

Then he says I will just hand this to you.  Like he will pass this sizzling hot platter over the four of us in to my hands.  Nuh-uh I say and Gary and I both vacate our chairs so he can set the hot, smokey mess down in my place.

Dinner is delicious, the company is the best.  The owner knows Ozzie and Sandy and he comes over to chat a bit.  The owner's wife comes over to chat as she is leaving work.

After dinner Ozzie drives us around Gloucester as sun sets.  It is a beautiful introduction to Eastern seaboard sun set.  I have only my cell phone but get some wonderful shots of Gloucester Bay.  Sandy explains that Birdseye Foods and Gortons started here and are still in operation.

As we travel from east to west around Gloucester the sun sets more vibrantly.  I realize I have left my jacket the restaurant and we drive back for it.  Then decide to stop at the ice cream store for dessert.  I must say vacation brings out the kid in me.  I have an ice cream late at night with this fun group.

At about 3 am all of the fried food decides it has rested long enough in my stomach and about 3 good heaves brings it all up.  The cream from the ice cream makes it come up a little easier.  Not a good night.