Nantucket Day 1... Will Travel for Lobster

We made it to Nantucket! After hours traveling in a cab, a train, and then the nice big airplane, we had to endure 45 minutes of this 9 seater plane. It was not fun nor was did it give you the sense of calm comfort that I like to have when flying. As I mentioned, I am horribly claustrophobic... so knowing that i was going to get on this itty bitty baby of a plane, wow, this is the crazy stuff nightmares are born of; I had been made aware how small this plane would be weeks ago, so I had a lot to look forward too.

Of course, on a small plane like this the rules are different than a normal (large) plane. First they must know your weight, no lying about it! Also you are seated not with your travel partner, but by how they blance the weight. With my bag stored in the left wing, gripping tightly to my brown starbucks bag, my phone and my camera, I boarded this small, tight, itty bitty plane in tears and some hysterical breathing. I know that I am safer in the sky, most of the time, but that is not what gets me though wishing that we were able to get the hell of the little plane! I sat behind the pilot, and Josh sat in front, shotgun. In a last ditch effort, I handed Josh my camera, I knew I wouldn't be able to get any pictures taken since I was breathing into a paper bag, so this picture of Josh was taken by me after we landed and most people were off the plane.

We made it to the beautiful island of Nantucket and for the next few days this is where we are living, the Wild Rose Cottage. As the only one in my family who hasn't been here before, everyone has told me about what to expect, what they do everyday, etc. So let me tell you what is what... there is a small town with beautiful shops, the roads are a combination of paved, brick, cobblestone and dirt/sand. The roads and sidewalks are small and very uneven, you have to watch what you are walking on instead of looking around and seeing the sights, everyone has tripped a time or two. It is a larger island that I thought it would be, but everything here is very packed in, tightly. They have a very small year-round population, but a full high school. There are many beautiful beaches, each different from the next. Some have pebbly sand and others have soft, white-ish sand, all of the beaches I have been to have rocks and pebbles but no real shells have been see anywhere but the stores.

This is a picture taken from one of the beaches last year, the same beach we camped out on last night until dark, hoping to get more great pictures. I have been wanting to take pictures like this, but there were no clouds and I don't know what I got yet, I haven't been able to download all of my pictures yet. The one thing I have gotten alot of pictures of is ... wait for it... lobster!

A bad picture but great food! I will be home early on Tuesday, so be ready for lots more pictures and stories of me on the small plane, I still have to live through the return trip on anther itty bitty plane!

Nantucket At Last

I am in Nantucket! After a trip to Chicago, I met up with my brother, Josh and we flew out to the Boston airport, Logan. We continued to Nantucket via Cape Air... a 9 seater plane. I am very claustrophobic, so in this small airplane, I was not very happy! But the 2 lb lobster I had for diner, that made up for the crazy small plane. I will not be blogging while I am here, but I will have lots and lots of pictures and stories and sand and lobsters. I will be back to blogging on Tuesday. Thanks!

Claws and Tails!

Lobster, all I can say is Lobster. One of my favorite foods and such a treat! This lobster was flown in all the way from Boston. After a visit to the family back east, my mom brought us this lobster as a treat. We decided that since everything is better on the grill, we would grill this lobster on the Green Egg Grill.  Good thought, not great in transition.   

First we boiled the lobsters, in salted water. I will tell you that this is the part that I hide from, running to the other end of the house, avoiding the shock of dipping the lobsters into the water.  But for my friends, and for myself, and for this blog... I had to stand and take pictures while the lobsters went into the pot.  

To grill the lobster we sliced through the tail  so it wouldn't curl up. (Please don't forget to take the rubber bands off the lobster before putting it on the grill, they will burn you and they melt to the lobster.) Along with the lobster we grilled corn sweetened with milk, sugar, salt and pepper and sliced vegetables with oil and salt and pepper.  

We soaked the 4 ears of corn in milk, for around half an hour with about 1/3 cup sugar, salt, and pepper. We grilled it without the husks, it was so sweet and juicy. Really good for early corn.  We cut up 2 bell peppers with onions and yellow and green zucchini. We mixed the veggies with olive oil and salt and pepper, this is our normal grilled veggie dish.

While the corn and vegetables were great, the lobster did not benefit from the grilling and it actually over cooked the lobsters.  They were still great, and I am so glad we got to eat lobsters, its been so long since I  had a lobster, maybe we can fly more lobsters out to Indiana. Yum!