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Birthday Dinner at Cassarino's

Girls Came For Vacation

June 28, 2018 by A. Cemal Ekin
Birthday Dinner at Cassarino's

Elif and Mina came for vacation on Sunday late afternoon. As is our habit, we left the dogs at home and went to Rigatoni’s for dinner. After dinner, we made a stop at Newport Creamery for some ice cream and returned home. Back at home, the dogs were waiting with lots of excitement. The bedtime came soon after we returned home, the girls were tired after a long flight.

After breakfast, Elif asked if we could go to the deli in Jamestown for lunch. We got in the car and in about 30 minutes we were in Jamestown ordering our sandwiches at the deli counter. Some people left vacating a table for us outside and we enjoyed the nice weather along with the great sandwiches. After lunch, I walked towards the pier and the girls walked to the beach to walk on sand and dip their toes in the water. After taking some photographs of them walking and other things I found interesting, I returned where we parked the car and waited for the girls to come back. That evening we were home and watched a movie.

On Tuesday evenings in the summer, the local Rotary Club organizes ‘The Cruise Nights” at Oakland Beach. Many owners of old, classic, fancy cars drive there and park their cars for everyone to enjoy. As people meander from one car to the next, the music is also blasting nostalgic tunes. We made the rounds, looked at the cars that took our fancy and ended up at Iggy’s Boardwalk restaurant. I had a nice martini as we waited for our food to arrive. Mina had Oakland Beach Burger, Jan and I had salmon on risotto, and Elif ordered linguini and clams. Her order came wrong, instead of white sauce, they brought one with red sauce. The waitress recognized the mistake and promised to replace her order in 4-5 minutes which took about 10-15! But all was good and too much. We ended up bringing half of our dishes back home.

On Wednesday morning the girls went shopping but returned earlier than I expected them, we had lunch together. Then, we decided to celebrate Elif’s birthday with dinner at Cassarino’s Ristorante on Federal Hill. As usual, we could not finish what we ordered and ended up bringing half of everything home to enjoy them today for lunch. Their food is very good and like all restaurants these days, portions are too big! That evening we watched an interesting movie, Loving Vincent, about the life of Van Gogh. The entire movie was painted animation in the style of Van Gogh using the characters and locations taken from his paintings, focusing on his final days.

Here are some photographs from our three days of vacationing with the girls.

Mina in Jamestown
Jan in Jamestown
Shadow play in Jamestown
Jamestown abstract
Neport Bridge from Jamestown
Small waves
Small waves
Small waves
Elif and the seagull
The grls with the seagulls
Elif and Mina enjoying the water
Elif and Mina enjoying the water
The girls enjoying the water
Mina enjoying the water
Elif and Mina enjoying the water
Nana and Mina
Mina dipping her toes
Nana photographing me
Coming back to the car
Oakland Beach Cruise Night
T-Bird
T-Bird
Chevy
Mina and Nana
The back end of a Corvette
Cadillac bumber with our reflections
Mina hiding behind Iggy's Menu
Elif making choices
Mina photographed Dede
Dede photographed Mina
Elif had clams with linguini
Mina had Oakland Beach Burger
Jan and I had salmon on risotto
Mina, Elif, Dede at Cassarino's for Elif's birthday dinner
Mina, Elif, Nana at Cassarino's for Elif's birthday dinner

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  1. James Turner

    June 28, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    Nice Cemal…..I very much enjoyed the initial image in the post. Nice Selfie

    • Cemal Ekin

      June 28, 2018 at 6:40 pm

      Thanks, Jim, that’s how selfies were done before they invented the word!

      Cemal

  2. Haluk Atamal

    June 29, 2018 at 4:19 am

    Lovely collection, Cemal. Thanks!

  3. Binnaz Melin

    June 29, 2018 at 4:20 am

    We thorougly enjoyed the photos. We miss you all and hope to see you all in Turkey soon.

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