Hampton Island Preserve

We're here with good friends for a weekend of fun, great food, and wonderful wine here at Hampton Island Preserve. This is a special place -- you can tell that the minute you drive onto the property. Just off of I-95, you nonetheless feel like you're entering a different time and place. Deer darting into the woods, sea grasses glistening in the evening light, rocking chairs on the porch overlooking wetlands -- you get the idea.

As if the place isn't enough, we have the kind of friends here that you treasure always. Due to awesomely responsible jobs that they all hold, names will remain nameless, but let's just say they we expect Lots Of Fun from this weekend. :-)

Tonight started with a champagne-accompanied trip down to the treehouse, yes, treehouse, where we ladies will apparently have massages on Saturday. Let me tell you, this is the way to get a massage, looking out over the marsh lands, the sky soft and rich in the distance.

Our "drop off" dinner featured some amazing pork tenderloin, grilled asparagus, and excellent sweet potatoes, along with a salad picked from fresh greens on the property. Yum! Alan picked a great in to go with and a fine evening was held by all.