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Summer camp

The girls finished camp today. They had an absolute blast.

This camp was a big hit with the kids. It was beautiful place.

The horses were their favorite part by far. They went riding every day. And they also learned how to take care of horses too.

Car Wash

It's not kind to mother earth and I know we used up way too much water.

But today the kids wanted to wash the cars. I filled up a few buckets, connected the hose and then watched them have the time of their lives.

Dolphins visit

  Dolphins close to the beach house shore 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

Yesterday afternoon we were hanging out on the beach and we saw a whole bunch of dolphins come right by our house.

My brother in law, Brian, took a bunch of photos fortunately.

Check out how close they are to the shore.

The kids were going crazy with excitement. And so was I.

Good day at the beach

  Ellie and Sophia riding the waves 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

We are at beach with our family, lauren's sister's family and Nana this week.

The waves were fantastic today. Lots of body surfing, boogie boarding.

Tomorrow I gotta try my nephew Timmy's skim board

To the beach

We are getting ready for our beach vacation - leaving tomorrow and out until Aug 5th.

Bikes, golf clubs, running gear, kids stuff and the kitchen sink are coming along.

Light blogging and even less email (if any).

But I'll be twittering away and I'll probably upload a bunch of vacation pix to flickr

Back from Maine

  Ellie on top of Cadillac Summitt - Acadia 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

We had a fantastic vacation up in Maine for the past 4 days. Spent a lot of time hiking, biking, eating and swimming.

I'm glad we made the trip. This is Ellie at Cadillac Summit. Here's a link to all of the photos from the trip.

Acadia is pretty sweet.

Acadia National Park

We are going to Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor in Maine. Tomorrow through Sunday.

I'm really looking forward to it. It's supposed to be a beautiful place.

Blogging will be light. But I'll probably be twittering so check out my twitter badge on the right sidebar or here is my profile page on twitter. And I'm sure I'll upload a photo or two to flickr during the trip.

Beautiful Summer Day

  Happy James 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

Today was gorgeous in Boston.

We took the ferry over to the islands. We had never been there before but it was much fun. First we went to George Island, took a tour of Fort Warren and heard all about the lady in black legend.

After lunch we then took a ferry over to Lovell Island and hung out at the beach. Total blast.  A few hours later and we randomly ran into our neighbors and their kids.

After returning back to Boston we walked over to the North End and had dinner at Giacomo's. The spicy calamari was awesome. It was worth the wait.

Beautiful summer day with the family.

Vonage woes

My parents had been Vonage customers for over a year.

They had lots of service quality problems but they kept it going.

Finally they switched a few months ago to Cablevision's telephone service. They had their number ported over. Vonage kept billing them.

This afternoon my mom called to cancel the Vonage service. They said they couldn't because the phone was in my dad's name.

So my dad calls this evening. After talking to a variety of customer service agents and endless hold times, it ended up taking him an hour and twenty minutes to cancel his Vonage service. Unreal.

Vonage is in trouble. The stock has dropped over 80% since their IPO. Lawsuits with Verizon and Sprint aren't helping.

But horrible customer service like this experience is far worse than any lawsuit. Word travels fast.

New Charles River Run

  Lauren #161 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

This morning we went to go cheer on Lauren and two of her friends in the New Charles River Run in Cambridge.

She did great.

We were all cheering her on. You can see Sophia in the foreground.