Do You Speak Bocce?

"Of course I can, sir. It's like a second language for me."

Yesterday afternoon we had our first pool party and lots of friends were kind enough to join us including Dave and Em, the Thisbe Family, Leda and Demetri, Raf-Oh and Katy, 410 and Jackie, Mel and Mike and Gretchen and Moritz!

We had a menu which relied heavily on The Barefoot Contessa including her potato salad, tomato and feta salad, peanutbutter and jelly bars and frozen key lime pie. Melanie and Mike joined in on the theme by bringing uber-tasty home made coconut cupcakes (also an Ina specialty!) and they also brought fabulous cookies from Lulu. We were also in further sugar shock in the form of cupcakes from the Buttercup Bake Shop thanks to Dave, Em and the rest of the NYC gang.

It was also Sophie-kins first event with people and she did well! When asked she said she had a nice time and really loved meeting everybody but she still wasn't quite sure why she couldn't have any cupcakes.

Overall, fun was had by all (especially the Thisbe Family's Wee Kraken). Folks went in the pool (playing what appeared to be a variant of baseball with wacky noodles) and in an interesting turn of events the bulk of the menfolk appeared to very much enjoy playing Bocce.

All this talk of bocce and all I can think of is "Bocce Balls!" as an exclamation but I can't remember for the life of me what movie that is from...

And, let's not forget that in two weekends it will be time to BBQ in the Hampton! :)