summer, officially

I was about several dozen miles deep on the Mass pike on my very early Monday morning commute to Connecticut listening to NPR, thinking it was a rerun broadcast, but it was actually live.  I was in my normal driving space-out conscious driving daydream when something caught my attention.  The announcer said, it is now 7:24am, in exactly 2 minutes summer will officially begin."  Here i am, sunny new england, windows down, driving slighty too fast and i thought, "huh, here i am watching it turn into summer at this very moment."  It was already 76 degrees in Boston when i left a little after 6am.  Ahh Summer........

I had a great weekend with friends, visiting a new beach, eating buffalo chicken pizza (and pesto pizza too), dancing in humid weather to  until the wee hours of the morning,  going out in a group for breakfast.....driving back to CT to find out i scored free tix to the Redsox/Dodgers game and then driving back to Boston to spend a beautiful evening in the Fenway bleachers surrounded by people psyched about drinking beers, eating franks, throwing peanut shells everywhere and chanting encouragements to the local team. i love that place, even when i'm exhausted and pining for more FIFA World Cup action. It's one of a kind.