Day 33: Gloucester Point

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After an amazing lie-in which took up most of the morning, I groomed Polly some more and chatted to Simon on Skype (with the cat, Katie, sat on my keyboard). After some fresh corn on the cob for lunch, David's piano teacher and her family came over. Olga and Sasha moved from Russia in 1991 and weren't even allowed to bring piano music with them. They have a daughter, Arena, who now works in DC but was home for a holiday, and a son Carey who did a masters in engineering at Oxford Brookes and lives abour 5mins from my flat next year. He works for Renault designing Formula 1 race cars, which I think must be one of the flashiest jobs around. We all took the Evans' yacht out into the York River to enjoy the breeze and generally mooch about. To our surprise, a whole school of dolphins turned up and swam beside the boat. We also saw an osprey sitting in it's nest which was pretty exciting.

For dinner the Young People were charged with producing succotash, a southern kind of salad thing made with sweetcorn, butter beans, tomatoes, spinach, onions, croutons (ours were soggy) and bacon (of course). This was served with roast chicken and followed by a pecan pie, which was very yummy (basically sticky toffee pudding).

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Photos

Cruising out along Sarah Creek
This is the creek which runs along the bottom of their garden and flows into the York