The Phillies blog I really want to do right now will have to wait; youtube keeps burping back my video, and Myspace doesn't like my pix either. Maybe it's a sign that I need to finish up the girls' weekend-I have to admit I've been very distracted by my Phillies!
Here's a bit of video from Youtube-the end of Saturday's game-the one that clinched the division-called by our Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas-
So on to the girls' weekend. We started Sunday with a boardwalk bike ride. Normally Mark has no patience for photography on the ride, but I asked him in advance if he would take some shots of Pat and I at some point, so I brought the camera along. We stopped directly in front of the Chelsea (the hotel where Pat and I would be spending that night); here's a long shot of us in front of the hotel
Here we are mugging for the camera
When we got back to the house, Mark made his usual yummy Sunday AM breakfast, and then Pat and I hung out on the back porch with the cats for a while. Mark was on a mission-a fishing mission, that is, and went to get the boat together.
You know how I love my reflections!
Here's Beamer and Lexie relaxing
Slowly but surely we made our way to the hotel; the plan was to hit the beach for a while and then get some early dinner and a drink later on. We were able to get an early check-in, so unloaded our stuff in the room
with its eclectic touches LOL
(small portion of the view)
One of the nice things about the "new" Atlantic City is that they're finally paying attention to the fact that the ATLANTIC OCEAN is right outside-the casinos set up beach bars in the summer and generally use the beach as an asset-at long last. The Chelsea has tent cabanas on their beach, but if you like to be close to the water, the beach valet will set up umbrella and chairs and provide towels. There is no bar service on the beach this year (they probably have to apply for several permits and grease a bunch of palms-maybe next year LOL), so we bought our drinks at the pool bar and took them down to the beach ourselves.
Here's Pat in her chair with her drink-
and the ocean view
Mark and his friends were fishing off the beach, and he called when they were approaching our slice of sand; I wanted to get some shots of Nadya out in the ocean.
Here she is approaching
We didn't know it at the time, of course, but at some point Mark lost the steering and almost beached her-luckily he was able to get control and limp safely home. We thought he was just showing off LOL.
Needless to say, our time on the beach was SO relaxing! The weather was beautiful-one of those amazing September days that just goes on and on. We didn't go in the water though-I stuck my toe in and was not surprised to find it VERY COLD.
Look at this sky-how could you go wrong!!!
Eventually we decided it was time to call it a day; as the sun started setting, the breeze cooled us down and we packed up and headed back to the room. We had dinner at the less expensive of the two hotel restaurants, Teplizsky's. It's Stephen Starr in the style of a 50's Jewish deli. Great atmosphere and food!
The cool drinks menu
My shrimp scampi (on a gorgeous hunk of bread instead of pasta)
Me in the booth, squinting as usual LOL
Sunset over Pacific Ave
You never know what you'll find in a Stephen Starr ladies room-this one had those poetry magnets on the inside of the stalls-waxing poetic in the loo-that's a new one!!
Next stop-the fifth floor.This is party central; the entrance to the outdoor pool and the fancy restaurant with the ocean view, Chelsea Prime, are located here, as well as a pool room and lots of lounging space for the beautiful people.
Looking towards Chelsea Prime
The fireplace
Pat and I had a nightcap at the Chelsea Prime's beautiful bar-Cable Cars-spiced rum and citrus juice, with cinnamon on the rim of the glass-yum!
Jeez-am I squinting again?! Don't answer that! And Pat is SO photogenic-I'd hate her if I didn't love her so much!
I guess we're getting old, because after one drink we headed back up to the room. Since it was Sunday night, I was hoping to watch Entourage, but NO HBO-WTF?-I really should send someone an email about that! Although they are still in the process of opening the place-maybe they just don't have it yet. Anyway, we both had to drive to Philly in the morning and were pretty tapped out from our long day relaxing LOL, so by 10 or so, it was lights out.
The next morning was a blur-we never got our wake-up call, so the knock on the door announcing breakfast was the first we knew of the time. The sunrise was right outside the window, though, so I stopped long enough to get some shots
And it was off to another Monday morning...
Cheers!
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