USVI-On-Line

have a (few) Painkillers while on vacation! Fresh nutmeg and all. Not a bad drink considering I was in Portsmouth, NH.
The restaurant was called The Blue Mermaid. Very good.

http://www.bluemermaid.com/

See, MB, the trip wasn't a TOTAL bust.... Sorry to hear all your trip woes, but that just proves that you should stick with what works: STJ! That painkiller looks great. Makes me want to go make one right now. Is drinking painkillers on a Sunday afternoon alone indicative of a problem? If so, I think you should have one too, MB, then I am technically not drinking alone. Long distance maybe, but not alone.

if only I had the fixin's I'd join you in a minute! I still have Ting though, will a Rum and Ting do?

It'll do. Cheers!

I'll join. We can start a cross-country team. Haha.

I used up all my rum last night. Can't buy hard liquor in Texas on Sun. What a dumb law. Wish I could join you.

Cheers, ladies!

Yum! That looks so good, MB!!

cypressgirl - we can't buy any type of liquor, beer or wine on Sundays. How silly!!

I'm in! I'll have one too.

I traveling through a Mormon town once, in Missouri, and on Sunday, and everything was closed. Weird. Maybe they're on Island time!

I LOVE Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The last time I was there I was walking down the street thinking how much it reminded me of Harvard Square in the early eighties and I ran into someone I knew from Harvard Square in the early eighties. He was an actor and a musician, and he told me about all the cool people we knew who had moved there. And to Portland, Maine. Cool towns.
-Ruth

Very nice! There is a restaurant in Cambridge (East Coast Grill) that we go to regularly that puts those little plastic mermaids on their drinks. We have a section of one of our kitchen drawers full of plastic mermaids, seahorses, and swordfish.

Love the drink photo. Very artistic (if that counts when photographing drinks)....

Just got back from Maine. Stopped in Portland on the way up and had a very nice Planter's Punch that had just the right tropical flavors.

Ruth, there were fireworks over your house the other night. I was ready to run over with a bucket if need be...

"There is a restaurant in Cambridge (East Coast Grill) that we go to regularly that puts those little plastic mermaids on their drinks. We have a section of one of our kitchen drawers full of plastic mermaids, seahorses, and swordfish."

Liamsaunt:
You know you're making me very homesick for Inman Square, Cambridge. The East Coast Grill opened in 1985 and I was there. I lived a block away and I worked there part-time. (I also had a job at a high-tech software company called "Funk Software". I'm not kidding.)

The owners, (Chris and Carey) warned all of the employees that sometimes it takes a few years for a restauarant to catch on, but they had such cool concepts that we were all committed and ready to stick it out. It was successful from Day One, and I'm so glad it's still thriving all these years later. In those days fresh grilled seafood, blue margaritas, plastic mermaid and monkey toys with your drinks and fresh toppings such as salsa made with fresh pineapple or mango were NOT commonplace, believe me. This was all unheard of and very Cutting Edge.

The funniest thing for me is remembering that one of the owners Chris Schlesinger used to spend a month in the Caribbean every year and he told me once that I should just pack up and move there. He thought I'd like it.
Very Smart Man.
-Ruth

Ruth, you should be the special guest at the Ct/New England forum gathering! How funny would that be?

You can take the girl out of New England but not the New England out of the girl!