August 31, 2013 Wedding Day

This is the day we have all been waiting for and so many family and friends have come for.

The event started at 10:00 in front of the drift wood on Parson’s Beach.  The ceremony was attended by three of Cynthia’s siblings, her two sons and their families and lots of friends from both Arundel and Albuquerque.

Then we returned to Cynthia’s house for some serious feasting.   Cynthia had made a wonderful shrimp coctel and let me chop the cilantro and avocados for it.  As I was chopping, she took the lobster chowder out of the fridge and heated it and I diced a pound of lobster meat which was all tails and claws and put that into the chowder.  Terry and Gudrun made a large bowl of guacamole and there were corn chips and salsa to eat and put in the coctel and a cheese plate and cheese ball. 

 

Then we opened a large box containing about 100 Prince Edward Island oysters and Richard and Enoch and I shucked some of those.  While I was in the kitchen in the other kitchen that served as the bar Ricardo was making his famous specialty cocktail with St. Germain liquor, Mescal and champagne.  In addition there were lots of beer and wine.  No one lacked for good liquor or food throughout the day.

After eating several bowls of the coctel and chowder I had to lie down for a one hour nap, but awoke at 4:00 when Cynthia announced that the Mexican food was served.  I went down stairs to find two large baking dishes, one filled with turkey in green enchilada sauce and one filled with turkey enchiladas in red sauce, plus Cynthia’s Mexican rice and Ricardo’s beans (red kidney beans, but he changes to suit what is available) and a jicama and red cabbage salad and a black bean salad.

 

After everyone had eaten their Mexican food, we all gathered on the back patio and made toasts with Korbel Champagne, with lots of reminisces and songs and jokes and heartfelt messages of love, freely offered by those around the table.

Finally, around 5:30 Ricardo and Cynthia brought out gallons of Gifford rich and creamy vanilla ice cream and berry pies. 

Everyone agreed that the ice cream and berry pies were fabulous.   I felt like I have been blessed on this trip with the gift of tasting the best food that Maine has to offer.   I shall always remember the lobster chowder and fresh berry pies with Gifford’s ice cream.

 

 

After dessert, Suzette suddenly said she wanted to go to the beach.  We were given directions to Goose Rocks Beach, which was the closest and Willy, Suzette and I set off for the beach.  We arrived at sunset at around 6:30.  The beach was beautiful with marshes lying on three sides of it and a long sandy beach.  It turned out to have the best shells of the trip so far.  I guess it is a less populated beach.

When we arrived back at the house everyone was around the fire pit with a fire blazing talking.  We sat for a while and finally went to bed at around 9:00.

Unfortunately, we could not get to sleep because we did not have a fan to cool us, so we got up and read and Suzette, ever the industrious commons sense one found a fan and we were able to get to sleep.  The fan has a dual purpose, not only does it cool the room, but its constant whirring dampens the road noise.

A wonderful day of people and elegant food.

Bon Marriage