Beach Ball Birthday

Friday night we had the picnic at Hull Beach. It was an odd event but fun over all. We planned on sitting out on the beach and eating, enjoying the surf and sand. Instead it ended up being sort of gray and occasionally drizzly and we parked on the part of the beach where there were only rocks. Also, neglecting the importance of high tide vs. low tide, we got there just as high tide was going out, leaving wet beach behind. So we opted for a picnic just outside of the parking lot under an awning (like a wisteria or grape vine awning, not one that actually offered shelter, but one that gave the illusion of shelter).

We set up the picnic from sweet to savory (I will try and give a list of everything there):

malted milk balls
organic peanut butter malted milk balls
chocolates
lindt truffles
dum dums
tootsie roll pops
enteman's popems
brownie balls
ball cake (an Asian cookie)
chocolate bombe birthday cake
grapes
Rainer cherries
watermelon balled
cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto
tomato basil mozzarella skewers
shrimp balls
cheese balls (both a bucket and two bags)
wasabi peas (two brands for taste testing purposes)
rice balls
falafel (or as most of us ended up referring to it awful falafel)
meatball's

Ok, I think that was it, please feel free to fill in any blanks if you were there . Anyway, overall a good variety of items. We ended up quite full even if (despite it's shape) it wasn't the most well rounded of meals.

After finishing the meal and playing with beach balls for a bit, we headed over to the carousel. We had the requisite ride -- though there was some debate about how fast the carousel was (I thought it was really fast, my boy thought I was insane -- but then what's new?).

We considered mini-golf, but with 10 of us consensus took us to the arcade instead. We managed to get enough tickets for everyone to get a super ball and they were really super, very good bouncers. Almost as much fun as the last time when we got those little plastic frogs you can flick the back of and then raced them.

We piled into our cars to go home a somerville/cambridge/points north contingent, a quincy car and a boston/brookline car.

Suzib had never been to a dairy queen though so when we passed one on the way home our car turned in. It was quickly followed by the other cars and we had a quick rendezvous in the parking lot before we split up for good.