Eggplants and Romas On Vacation!

After the long CSA season, we did the unthinkable...and went on an actual vacation! To the beach! Will and I went round and round about whether to take along a watermelon....as fabulous as they are, the last thing I wanted was to haul any part of the farm to the beach. period. In the end, I acquiesed; I said sure, a watermelon would probably be a good thing to have with us - as long as it's not a whole truck full of watermelons that we'll be selling on the side of the road! (we have actually DONE this -long ago on one of our 'family visit' trips to texas...never again!). What I didn't really understand was that Will was actually having much bigger visions about vegetables on vacation. Why not bring a big bag of Roma tomatoes? and hey! Why leave those nice eggplants behind? What could I do? Sure - let's bring tham all! hey - they've never been away from home before...they probably would love the beach!
So here are the two lucky eggplants - winners of the 'go to the beach' lottery. First, they relaxed on the sand and took in the scenery

...then spent some time sunning...although their tans were already fabulous

Here is everyone around their little camp fire - no, they did not sing any songs, but a good time was had by all!

After having been part of the organic farm experience, and then enjoying the 'vegetable vacation of a lifetime', the eggplants met their destiny as a very tasty crabmeat-stuffed eggplant dinner.

The romas made it back to Louisiana, but gave themselves to a tomato-basil-garlic pizza last night...that was ok with them, I think - they did have fond memories of their lives in the garden with their garlic and basil friends.