the East House

Every year over Columbus Day weekend, we head out to John’s parents house on the east end. This year due to some colds, conflicting schedules with photoshoots, and the fact it is sometimes just way too hard to pack everyone up for two nights, we only did a day trip. But we did manage to cram in a zillion things in the one day. We went pumpkin picking, which included the hay ride, the bounce house, and the corn maze. We went out to a nice lunch. Timmy napped at the house with John while I took the boys to a few stores (didn’t buy anything), to the ‘east beach’, and for a drive around the area. Then we all loaded back in (along with the 24 pumpkins we bought), went out to Greenport to the carousel, the park on the water, and the duck store- where each boy got 2 little rubber duckies and Timmy got a pirate flag. We hit the Elbow Room for the BEST marinated steaks in the universe (sorry, Nel) for dinner and must’ve gotten there at the perfect time as there was no wait- that never, ever happens. We all really missed having Nelson with us this year (he always comes out for the weekend too) and it was very strange being there without him.

The pumpkin patch.

The hay ride:

The corn maze: (Jack found the coolest, fuzziest, huge caterpillar)

The east beach (where it was warm enough out that people were swimming in the sound, sunbathing, and I urged the boys to go into the water too)

The carousel:

And the park:

That about covers it in pictures.