"On Route 132...Try our platter Pu Pu.......Good Food For Yoo!!"
1. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all of the Barnstable 1978 graduates! We added a few new members recently and hope for a better turnout in 2007 as we close in on the 30th year anniversary in 2008.
2. The Cape Cod Young Professionals group has regular meetings for anyone interested. A great place to meet and network in the business community. On Cape Cod if you are under 65 you are still considered "young" in our book. Visit their website by clicking here: capecodyoungprofessionals.com
2. Speaking of "young" as we enter 2007 most of us from the Class of 1978 will be turning 47. WOW! People will now describe us as "She/He is in their LATE 40's". Your kids will start putting those inspirational messages around the house so you will not drop dead before you pay off their college bills. We have one on the refrigerator that says:
-EAT LESS!
-EAT BETTER!!
-MOVE YOUR BODY!!!
Gray hairs can be spotted on various parts of the body and a wrinkle for every night of your life you stayed up drinking until 4am can now be seen developing around the eyes. When you tell people you actually remember the last time the Bruins or Celtics won a Championship they tell you they were not even born. But screw all of that! Sly Stallone just made a successful boxing movie at 60 years old! Hugh Hefner is dating 20 year old girls on that E! Network show! In other words we are still relatively young and need to take advantage of these years before we are being dropped off by our kids at The Whitehall Manor Nursing Home on Route 28 with a hearing aid, a box of Depends and an iPod loaded with "classic" 80's hair band hits to listen to while we wait to die. Here are 10 things that we would have done 25 years ago in 1982 without batting an eyelid that we should all plan on accomplishing in 2007 while we still have the opportunity:
1. Make sure you have at least $1000 in credit available on your Visa Card and go to Baxter's Fish and Chips for the orgasmic Fried Clam Plate and wash it down with mixed drinks at Baxter's Boathouse where you will rub elbows with bonafide blue bloods. Forget your cholestorol count but who cares...Cape Cod Hospital ER is only two blocks away!
2. Spend an afternoon at Gringos on Main Street drinking margaritas on the patio and enjoying the best people watching on the Cape.
3. Play darts and drink cheap beer at the 19th Hole in Hyannis for a night.....don't cause any trouble as most patrons carry a shiv or shank they made in craft class at the Barnstable House of Correction.
4. Tan up in front of the bath house at Craigville Beach for a day and get a huge hamburger with onions and cheese at The Barnicle. Not sure if they still have the frozen Milky Ways on a stick but ask. Guys, dont wear a pickle suit like the Canadian tourists do or you could be taken away by the BPD in a paddy wagon for indecent exposure.
5. Cruise Main Street Hyannis and honk at pedestrians you like
6. Go to Barnstable's #1 townie bar Jack's Lounge on West Main St and order their famous pizza at the bar and trade stories about the history of the town with area winos, jezzabelles and ex-cons who frequent there.
7. Dip into the kids college fund and take a limo to the Roadhouse for their out of this world Chicken Parm and a nice bottle of wine.
8. Spend an afternoon at the bar at Keeper's in Osterville and tell them all you are waiting for your yacht to be fixed.
9. Go to the Tiki Port on Route 132 at 1am for late night Chinese food. (Make sure you know where the 24 Hour CVS is so you can get Tums afterwards!)
10. Blow off your diet on a hot summer day with an award winning Lobster Roll at 4 Seas Ice Cream followed by their 3 scoop banana split. (Then go to Puritan Clothing to buy a bigger bathing suit.)