Trish and Dave's Awesome Adventure

This is a great time of year in my opinion.  We're deep into summer where everyone's had the opportunity to sink into it and take a big bite.  This time of year some start complaining of the heat and you start seeing the back to school specials.  For me, I want time to literally stand still...preferably at a moment when I'm on a beach looking out at the Atlantic with a cooler by my side.  The sleepy summer month of August will be here momentarily and I am savoring as much of summer as I can.  Actually, we both are...so while we have some good wine posts coming up we wanted to share with you some of what's been keeping us from blogging:

First, we had to celebrate the 4th of July (Dave chose to do this with a little too much bourbon, preventing us from attending the infamous Bristol RI 4th of July parade the next morning)Luckily there was a cookout at his parent's fabulous waterfront home to distract me.

In New England, summer means seafood...any time of year means seafood really.  Dave and I are both huge fans of a good raw bar and there are some great local oysters to be had in these parts.  We took a trip (the first for both of us) down to Matunuck Oyster Bar  (www.rhodyoysters.com) to taste their variety of locally sourced crustaceans.  It just so happened East Matunuck Beach was around the corner and it was yet another beautiful beach day.  After we stuffed ourselves with oysters, Sauvignon Blanc and fried clams we meandered on down to sit it off in our beach chairs :)

There's a great little getaway just an hour's ferry ride from Point Judith here in RI, and it's called Block Island.  It's one of my favorite places on earth and is home to about 1,000 people year round.  The island measures approximately 10 square miles in area but don't let it's size fool you!  This island is stuffed with many beautiful beaches, cliffs, houses and tons of great places to eat shop and drink.  Sign me up!  We took a trip with our mothers this past Saturday and made the most of a day on the Block.

Oh yeah...we did attend another fine tasting put on by Eno Fine Wines and the Providence Wine Academy.  Here's a little pictorial preview until Dave and I get our act together enough to post about the favorites we tried.  Happy drinking!

We hope you're enjoying your summer as much as we are ours.  Cheers!

Dave and Trish