Blue Claws!

We started today getting an early start so we could get to L&M Bakery before they sold out of everything. L&M is a pretty famous New Jersey bakery, of which Lynne talks about often. Their signature product, according to Lynne, is the "butter cake," which is pictured on the center/bottom of the bakery photo. Basically, it is a cake consisting of butter and sugar, along with a couple of eggs to hold it together. That is it. It is like eating buttercream frosting right out of the pan. Absolutely delicious and heart healthy. Wonderful cinnamon buns and homemade donuts too!

Stevie C., who had stellar luck out fishing today, procured some nice blue-claw crabs so we could do the "traditional crab boil" Lynne keeps talking about. At 30 bucks for 1/2 a bushel, crabs are a far better value than lobster, and, for my money, ten times more delicious. I think I might be off lobster forever now! They are more fun to "pick" than lobster, and pound for pound have more meat than lobster (in my opinion anyway). You fill a pot with beer and water, bring it to a boil, drop in the crabs, and sprinkle a bunch of Old Bay Seasoning in. The seasoning, which sticks to the shells, gets on your fingers, and then, when you pick the crab with your fingers, the seasoning spices up the meat. The way to do it, according to Stevie C, is to clean them first, spread out a whole bunch of newspaper on the table, and just go to town like a seagull.

Other highlights of the day included playing wiffleball with Emma, Donna, Amanda, and Michelle. Also, we played a new game called Zingo with Emma (oh wait . . .I mean we played it for the 124th time). We sat around the fire pit, and, much to my chagrin, played "Pit," which is a stockbroker game. There are really no rules to the game--everyone just basically yells at the same time for about 15 minutes until its time to go inside. Just kidding. But not my favorite game. Also, on the way back from the bakery this morning, George took a detour to go into Delran and Tenby Chase, which is where Amanda lived for about the first 11 years or so of her life. We went by her house, by G-mom and G-pop's house, and by the Tenby Chase swim club, where Sally used to swim. A nice trip down memory lane for George and Amanda. Overall a fantastic day!

Oh. And Abby just layed around today. She rocks. We swam in the pool a bit. And she played wiffleball with us. And she drooled. On my cloths. A lot.