Whirlwind weekend in New York

We left Thursday to hook up with the "Table 1 Gang" - six people we met on our Mediterranean Cruise a couple of years ago.  We flew into La Guardia where Anthony picked us up and drove us to Carole's and his condo in Garden City for lunch. After lunch we headed out for the 77 mile drive East on Long Island to Southhold where they have a home on the water. It's a great place that they totally rehabbed about two years ago.

We had a nice dinner at a place called legends in the nearby town of Cutchogue.  I had elk which was very good.  Next day we met the other four at a winery about 20 minutes away. We had lunch inside as the wind was keeping things pretty cool outside.

Jeanne, Mickey, Jill, Paul, Anthony, Dave, Art and Carole (seated)

We stopped at another winery after that and then went back to Carole and Anthony's place for wine, appetizers and dinner. As they say "a good time was had by all"

Next morning the girls were off to town for a massage and the guys headed out in Anthony's boat to do some clamming.  Dave opted out early but I thought I would give it a try.  When we arrived at the clamming spot it was cold and windy.  I thought we were talking about wading in water up to your knees.  When Anthony climbed out of the boat into water up to his chest (soaking his sweatshirt) I decided to watch Paul and Anthony from the boat.

They gave up pretty soon because of the cold and we headed back to Anthony's for lunch out on the deck. The girls arrived shortly thereafter and fixed themselves some lunch. Six of us then said goodby to Anthony and Carole and got in Paul's SUV for the two hour trip to Mickey and Paul's place in Yonkers. They have a lovely place up a hill in a nice section of Yonkers.

We had a wonderful Italian dinner and some more red wine. :-)  Next morning Paul dropped us off at LaGuardia and continued on to JFK to drop off Jeanne and Paul.  We had a nice flight home but our suitcases didn't come with us.  They delivered them about 5 hours later.