we had everything packed this morning before heading to gin beach for a last swim and walk along the beach.
i think morgana is reading a "meet the austins" book . . by madeleine l'engle . .
but she put it down for man o' war, by walter farley. we started it during the spring, so it was nice to finally get back to it.
chanda didn't want to leave. all of us would have been happy to stay the day again . .
but it was time to get on the road. we said good-bye to nana and nonno and loaded jack into the car. of course we had several libraries to stop at, and coffee shops too. this pic is taken in front of pierre's in bridgehampton. not that we bought pierre's coffee or tea, but we do like their benches . .
. . even if it was incredibly hot and humid and jack looked like he was going to pass out . . morgana too, maybe? no, not morgana. she was lucky and had a hibiscus tea from starbucks.
but going home this day was not to happen. we got stuck in gridlock in southampton. for three hours we didn't know what was happening, and neither did anyone else.
m and c sat by the side of the road for a little bit to get out of the hot car. they even had to ask a lady coming out of her house if they could use her bathroom. i saw another woman park her car on the side grass and sit on a wooden swing with a neighbor and sip what looked like a glass of white wine. i think that glass looked very enticing to all of us drivers still sitting in the traffic jam.
i finally pulled out of the line-up when i saw cars traveling east on a road up ahead of us. we pulled over at a park i had been to once before in southampton to see if we could find out what was going on.
by now it was 7:30 pm. when i returned from my bathroom hunt we decided to go back to nana and nonno's for the night and try again in the morning!
