October 4th, 2008
Athena is working in her video store this morning. The job that she tells everyone in Washington DC is her main job just for kicks. I had some time so I went exploring down the Kemble Park Nature Trail. Decided then and there that I would run down it every morning that I was in DC, it was sooo beautiful. I met Athena back at the video store in the afternoon where I discovered her watching David Attenboroughs "The Life of Reptiles". We took the car on a mini-road trip later that day down to visit Mark and Ted who live near Rehoboth Beach. Mark and Ted are an affluent gay couple, they own a nice big house up on Capital Hill in DC and a second home down near Rehoboth Beach in Delaware State. The beach house was in a trailer park called "Camelot" what a flamboyant name for a trailer park! All the trailers were pretty swish, not here were your typical "white trash" but a bunch of predominantly rich gay couples without kids who had money to burn so used it to create their own little beach hideaway.
The trip down to Rehoboth was scenic, kind of cool. It was the first view I had had this holiday of strip-mall America. The garish signs shout at you from the side of the road. They are just so unbelievably big! Their steeple-like towers encourage more and more people to come worship at these tacky temples. Everytime we saw another strip mall by the roadside Athena would exclaim "Urggh, welcome to the real America!" No wonder she feels out of step with her own country.
When we reached Mark and Ted's place, they were consummate hosts, they're an absolutely adorable couple. We were fed barbeque shrimps, pasta salads and other barbequed meats. Mark is such a fantastic cook and we pleaded for his recipe for blueberry cake, I think it was the sour cream that made it so tasty. This little secret made it the best blueberry cake I'd ever had. Sweet with a bitter aftertaste..like good sex! Ha!
The pair of them are devoted to Kiba, their Japanese non-barking dog. The only way we could tell she was excited was to check out her tail which flopped from side to side when she was happy. Athena and I spent the evening drinking Proscetto, playing the piano and singing. I reckon we kept the boys suitably entertained. Athena seems to know all the words to an endless array of Broadway hits. I however kept up the side for Lloyd Webber!
Athena is working in her video store this morning. The job that she tells everyone in Washington DC is her main job just for kicks. I had some time so I went exploring down the Kemble Park Nature Trail. Decided then and there that I would run down it every morning that I was in DC, it was sooo beautiful. I met Athena back at the video store in the afternoon where I discovered her watching David Attenboroughs "The Life of Reptiles". We took the car on a mini-road trip later that day down to visit Mark and Ted who live near Rehoboth Beach. Mark and Ted are an affluent gay couple, they own a nice big house up on Capital Hill in DC and a second home down near Rehoboth Beach in Delaware State. The beach house was in a trailer park called "Camelot" what a flamboyant name for a trailer park! All the trailers were pretty swish, not here were your typical "white trash" but a bunch of predominantly rich gay couples without kids who had money to burn so used it to create their own little beach hideaway.
The trip down to Rehoboth was scenic, kind of cool. It was the first view I had had this holiday of strip-mall America. The garish signs shout at you from the side of the road. They are just so unbelievably big! Their steeple-like towers encourage more and more people to come worship at these tacky temples. Everytime we saw another strip mall by the roadside Athena would exclaim "Urggh, welcome to the real America!" No wonder she feels out of step with her own country.
When we reached Mark and Ted's place, they were consummate hosts, they're an absolutely adorable couple. We were fed barbeque shrimps, pasta salads and other barbequed meats. Mark is such a fantastic cook and we pleaded for his recipe for blueberry cake, I think it was the sour cream that made it so tasty. This little secret made it the best blueberry cake I'd ever had. Sweet with a bitter aftertaste..like good sex! Ha!
The pair of them are devoted to Kiba, their Japanese non-barking dog. The only way we could tell she was excited was to check out her tail which flopped from side to side when she was happy. Athena and I spent the evening drinking Proscetto, playing the piano and singing. I reckon we kept the boys suitably entertained. Athena seems to know all the words to an endless array of Broadway hits. I however kept up the side for Lloyd Webber!
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