We love Martha’s Vineyard!!

Hi Folks,

What a wonderful stop; from the first moment we landed, we really liked this island.  We loved our hotel — it is in an old home, but just remodeled into a contemporary hotel inside…..lovely decor and a great manager.

 

After settling in, we went around the corner to a fun little place, 19 Raw.  We split a Caesar salad, lobster roll and crab fried rice — all yummy!  And John drank a local beer — Wash Ashore — and washed it all done with the obligatory ice cream cone:). John loved their uniform….

In the morning, we were off on a three hour tour around the island.  We used it as a guide for what to do the next day and a half while we had a car.  We had left the one we rented in Hyannis for the time we were on the islands.  (Don’t ask!). It was a very interesting tour; there are six towns on MV.  We went to all of them.  But a lot of the pictures are from when we went back.

We passed the entrance to Caroline Kennedy’s compound.  Yes, that’s all we could see!  And another lighthouse 🙂

We passed the burial site of John Belushi; I knew you would want to see it!

 

We were hungry; our guide had recommended Nancy’s for clam strips.  They were great, but the onion strings even better 🙂

We shopped around for awhile then picked up our rent car.  There is a neighborhood that is known for it’s gingerbread houses.  They are wonderful — intricate carvings and wonderful colors!

Pretty amazing, huh?

But we are just getting started…..John had set up an itinerary of where we were going.  He might have been sorry that he added the glass works; I found a piece I HAD to have :). Afterward we stopped for lunch…..but our buttery fingers clouded up the pic!  Then we went to look at an Indian reservation; they own a 6,000 square foot building that is going to be torn down and turned into a casino!  I took the street pic just because I thought the name was amazing!!!

 

Those are twinkling lights inside the ball — I tried to upload a video of it, but it didn’t work!

But the day isn’t close to over:  I swore that I was going to put my toes into the Atlantic on this trip, so I did.  John took the pic!  We were on the beach at the sight of the filming of Jaws; then we drove to the bridge that is famous for lots of the scenes from Jaws.

And then we had to go to Chappaquiddick!  It’s a short — very short — ferry ride there and then a drive to THE bridge.  We had to do it all :). I have NO idea who the mailbox belongs to; I just thought I should photograph it…..on Chappaquiddick!!!

We ended our day with our first “dress-up” meal at The Terrace at The Charlotte Inn. It was absolutely delicious!  And lovely!!

On our last day we wandered down from our hotel to the happening part of Edgartown.  There was a show of strange fish art in a park — we enjoyed it!  We stopped for lunch at The Seafood Shanty and we shopped around the area.  John LOVES The Black Dog; you will see him in their t-shirts and ball caps.  Then we wandered back to our hotel, picked up the car and were off to see more of MV before the ferry.

We did go back into the gingerbread house area and I took a few more pictures there.

And then we took the ferry back to Hyannis.  We had an early dinner of more fried clam strips at the same place we first stopped.  Then we decided we should go see Hyannis Port and the Kennedy Compound.  So we got as close as we could and took a picture 🙂

And then we did a genius thing.  You have to remember that we are still one day ahead of our schedule…..because we left Nantucket one day early.  We had been able to move our nights ahead in MV, but when I called our next stop in Newport, they wanted a BUNCH of money to change from Saturday, Sunday and Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  But we had rented a specific room there and I was willing to bet that it was still available for Friday night.  So I called about 7:00 p.m. on Friday from Hyannis and said we would like to move a day ahead, but that we did not want to pay any more.  She checked; it was available; and we could have it at our original rate.  Otherwise we were going to just spend one night in a motel on the way.

 So we arrived at our next stop — Newport — one night early.  And that’s the next and very busy chapter!

See you there,

Beth