I don't think I need to eat for a week.

[rikibeth]

 But I had a fantastic weekend.

The Bros of Sail (Age of Sail fans on tumblr) had a meetup at the USS Constitution on Saturday.

Comments

[jestana]

Hooray! Sounds like lots of fun was had. :D Wish I could have gone, but that was a bit far for me. ;) I admit to flailing a little when you mentioned staying in Watertown because the Courier in 1776 said that's where he was from. *is a dork, yes*

Thank you very much for the hammock research, by the way. It was very important. ;)

[eglantine_br]

The one who sang "Mama, oh Mama, come looking for me?" (And broke my heart?)

[jestana]

Yep, him. *smishes him*

[rikibeth]

Watertown's adjacent to Cambridge. It's just an ordinary, somewhat low-end suburb. Large Armenian population (this is not a new thing, the community has been established for many decades) which gives it some very interesting independent grocery stores.

txanne was boggled at the fact that towns in New England had contiguous borders. In Texas, where she grew up, it was "self-contained town, drive half an hour through nothing at all, come to another self-contained town". I professed astonishment. Towns don't work that way!

[eglantine_br]

I always assumed the boys were vertically stacked in the hammocks. But I fear you are right that it is wishful thinking. My guys seems to spend an awful lot of time on the floor beneath the hammocks.

It sounds as if you had a wonderful time, and ate half the food in Boston!

I lived in Allston for years, but i think I only went to Legal Seafood once, with FIL.

I have eaten a lot with my brother in Cambridge, but usually the visit was more interesting than the food. (Brother will not eat beef, and favors Indian or Chinese food.)

[rikibeth]

Well, if you and your brother haven't gone to Mary Chung's for Chinese, UR DOIN IT RONG. It's an institution! It was closed for a while once because they lost their lease, and when they found a new place and had their license hearing, it was the only time in Cambridge history where the hearing was packed to capacity with people saying YES PLEASE GRANT THEM THE LICENSE. Generally only "anti" meetings get packed.

Shalimar of India is another institution. These are both on Mass. Ave in Central Square.

I cannot see how the boys could vertically stack themselves without tipping themselves out. Wiggly things, hammocks.

The guide was very opposed to us making the two-person attempt, so he had to wait until he was gone. :)

[rikibeth]

YOU SHOULD DO THAT.

The blueberry muffin is fabulous, they make a terrific hollandaise sauce for their assorted Benedicts, the stuffed French toast is a treat (especially the goat cheese and pear), and their corned beef hash is homemade, not canned junk.

Their homefries, though, are actually refried garlic mashed potatoes, and I find them too heavy. YMMV.

[deguspice]

Sounds like fun.

A grilled blueberry muffin sounds tasty, but it could only be called Boston's Best Blue if they were made with a Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffin.

(They're no longer extinct, Jordan's Furniture, whose ads used to say "not to be confused with Jordan Marsh, have revived the Jordan Marsh blueberry muffins at their Avon store)

[anteros_lmc]

Looks like a lot of fun!

I have actually managed to get two people into a hammock, but you do have to be very friendly ;) I suspect it's much easier to get two people into a hanging cot, though there still wouldn't be much room for manoeuvre!

[rikibeth]

We had a wonderful time, although when there were seven of us we did get more than a little rowdy. I hope we didn't annoy the other visitors TOO much, and the museum was fairly empty while we were there -- there were other visitors in the model ship room, and we were quiet there except for a few remarks when we recognized famous ones like Flying Cloud -- but oh dear, when we were in the hammock room, not to mention all crowding into the quarter-gallery on the ship herself!

And yet it was supposedly common for the sailors to entertain ladies of the town in their hammocks when they were in port! I can only imagine that they managed it SOMEHOW.(Probably not wearing winter boots would help, but we'd had several inches of slushy snow the day before. Bit odd to see a modern plastic-bladed snow shovel propped against the gunwale of a wooden frigate!

Our considered opinion was that hammocks were a bad deal, and that's what sail lockers were for.

[eglantine_br]

Never mind the manoeuvres. Just go straight at 'em...

[scribal_goddess]

Sounds like a lot of fun. We had a hammock when my class went to Guatemala, and yeah, people definitely need to be close to be comfortable sharing one. (You can just about pack three people in sitting, if they're all deathly afraid of the fire ants inhabiting the couch and don't much care about anything besides not being bitten at that point.) I'm sure many people are indebted to you for your hammock fact-check.

So much food, though! :)

[rikibeth]

I suspect your hammock in Guatemala was larger than the naval hammocks. The one pictured is designed to swing in a berth of 28 inches, roughly the width of a crib mattress. Though, yeah, sitting might have handled more! Especially if there were fire ants. The navy would have had rats and weevils, but no fire ants, at least.

I should note for the record that we did not eat lunch before we had our tea. Nevertheless... yeah, it was a lot of food. I'm thinking I might just have toast tonight, or a bowl of cereal. I don't even want our regularly scheduled homemade pizza, though it's still getting baked so eternaleponine has something to eat.

[scribal_goddess]

Oh yes, now that I think of it I'm certain it was. It was designed with beaches and palm trees in mind, not sailors! (It probably could have fit more people if any of us had been bitten by fire ants at that point in the trip: we'd have been more terrified of them than before. But we'd only been there a week and we were still scared to death of malaria-carrying mosquitoes: we hadn't even met any of the dangerous critters.)

Oooh, don't tempt me with your pizza! I'm at college, so I live on caf food. :(

[starcat_jewel]

What, no pictures from the Gathering of Light? *pout*

[rikibeth]

I was too busy EATING! Also, as the Gathering of Light links back to what I think of as a primarily text medium, I wasn't thinking about pictures the same way that I was thinking about pictures at a tumblr-organized gathering.