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| Day 29, Crystal clear surf today. Like diamonds. (Pic 1) |
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| Day 29, Biggie clam (Pic 2) |
We had a (rare) sunny day after several gray days for my second-to-last ride in April. I rode around Marblehead Neck, stopping by Goldthwait Beach to kill some time, and then over to
Stowaway Sweets to pick up an order of chocolates I'd placed earlier in the morning. The waves were beautiful after the stormy days we've had, and I found another big clam shell on the beach. There have been some big ones lately!
As for the chocolate -- it was part of a deal.
Chip had been dragging his feet on his English assignments based on the book,
Like Water for Chocolate. English has taken a lower priority with him as he prepares for his AP exams in Physics, Calculus, Statistics and French, but the English work still needs to get done. I saw there were 12 chapters in the book and told him I'd buy a box of Sweet Sloops at
Harbor Sweets and for every chapter he read, he'd earn two chocolates.
Will laughed at me and said, "That's not going to work. He's not
five!". Well.. I thought it was a good idea?
Then this morning, Chip told me he
finished the book. He started last night and read it to the end. (It's not a long book.) Hahahaha. I owed him chocolate. I went online and saw Harbor Sweets was closed and limited to online orders only, with shipping. Whereas Stowaway Sweets was taking call-in orders and offered at-door-pickup!! That was perfect (!) and their chocolates are soooo good.
I called in an order for an assorted selection of chocolates and picked them up from a special
order pick-up box. Chip was quite happy. :) It's good to have a win these days.
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| Outside Stowaway Sweets, picking up my order. |
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| The pickup box! |
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| The best chocolates. Chip earned them. |
