The Happy Kampers

Also a part of Rhode Island Friends and Co. are the Kampers.Travis is from California and also works at CVS. Jennifer is from Venezuela, and in her former lives, has been a runway model and a paraglider. In her current life, she is an expert cake decorator, and a wicked good volleyball player, and doesn’t cook anything out of a box. Roxali is four. She likes eating lobsters and playing with the heads that broke off our Chinamen statues (but not at the same time). Her favorite movie is Cars. I’m not sure why. We're like, best friends. It's a good thing she's coming to our Ugly Sweater Christmas Party tomorrow. She makes me feel less Scroogey. Maybe she'll bring "Teddy," who also wears sweaters from the Build-A-Bear store.

 

Yesterday we all went to Newport in the hopes of finding lobsters. We found armadillos instead. I dipped mine in a lot of my favorite food, butter. Dinner resulted in a small mountain of lobster cephalothoraxes, mandibles, and maxillipeds and discussion of vitally important lobster trivia, including: the fact that before the 20^th century lobster was the equivalent of our modern cup-o-noodles, and affluent New Englanders snubbed them and fed them only to servants (who refused to eat them no more than twice per week); and that otherwise, lobster was only good for fertilizer or fish bait; and that if you are caught boiling lobsters in Reggio Emilia, Italy you pay a fine of up to €495; and that the largest lobster ever caught weighed 44.4 pounds; and that lobsters have livers, but are not significant sources of thiamine.