I am back (and older)

I am back from our short vacation in the Hamptons and I am one year older (thank you for your birthday wishes, BTW). Of course I am just a few days older than when I left, isn't it funny how we are tricked into thinking that we actually get older on our birthdays? My daughter said something very wise to me after turning 6. She said "Mommy, it wasn't such a long time ago that I was a baby. It seems longer because of all the birthdays, but it was fast". I know, I have a natural born philosopher under my roof! I wanted to tell her "You have no idea how true it is" but of course I shut up for her sake.

Anyway the good news is I am also more tan than when I left as we had great weather for the entire stay. I wanted to post something on the 4th of July but I had ZERO reception there, which always comes to me as a big surprise. This is what I had planned to wear and actually wore on the beach that day, a subtle version of the American flag (cover-up by Joe Fresh, belt by Calypso):

We celebrated my birthday one day early, on Friday night (because yesterday night we were to take the road again to come back to NY). I made a reservation at one of my favorite places in the Hamptons, Navy Beach, which is basically a bar-restaurant on the beach with sunset view. That turned almost into a disaster because it is one of those places where even if you have a reservation you wait for hours to be seated outside (and all the point was to be seated outside on the beach, where they have literally 4 tables). My MIL was loosing her patience and my husband wasn't cooperating either (he wanted to go to another restaurant from the beginning) but luckily I managed to get my hands on a table right before everybody got too upset (after 45 minutes). From there on we had a wonderful evening, the food was delicious and the summer atmosphere is priceless (especially when you know that you are going to be back in the city soon). These are a few picture where you can see what I am talking about:

But I have to say, it is good to be back too, I love the city in the summer. This afternoon I am going to try to go to the movies and see "Before midnight", the third episode of the Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy saga that started with "Before Sunrise". I wanted to go last Sunday already but then I got lazy and watched another movie starring Julie Delpy on Netflix (that I had already seen and I found hilarious), "Two Days in Paris" (much better in my opinion than the sequel "Two Days in New York").
So in honor of miss Delpy and her boho style, I am wearing an old dress that I bought when I still lived in Paris and miraculously still fits me well (in fact, when MIL saw it this morning she said that it is a dress made for me. And she usually spares her compliments):

And speaking of Julie Delpy, I have to share this Madewell tank, because it totally reminds me of something that she would wear in one of her movies (actually I blame the purchase on Wendy and her obsession with Miss Delpy!!!) It is called Linen tank in mountain flower and it was on sale for $34.99 plus 40% off last week (currently soldout on the website but I love all the "mountain flower" collection):

I also want to apologize for my lack of comments on other blogs. Since I switched to Freely I am unable to leave comments from my phone (not sure what I am doing wrong but I hadn't time to really look into it). In particular I want to wish a happy belated bday to GiGi and the other bloggers, like Audreybella, who share my "birthday week".
Have a great Sunday!