Photo by Akira Suwa/Inquirer Staff Photographer
My colleague Jackie Urgo had a good line about this weekend. She called it "chamber of commerce weather." Was definitely nice enough to get everyone down to the shore and then headed back to Philly at precisely the same time, if the jammed up westbound Atlantic City Expressway around exit 7 Monday afternoon was any guide. Away most of the weekend, we got back in time for a little late afternoon time on the beach, which by then had been abandoned. Was good to get the rusty chair out again. There really isn't a better place to take the pile of Sunday papers you haven't read yet. Ok, it was a little windy and required a sweatshirt. But still, it felt like that time again. (Pay no attention to the temperature of the ocean!) The volume on the streets was its usual seasonal shock, and to the gentleman who got out of his car in the middle of Atlantic Avenue to yell at a driver in another car behind him, a woman from Pennsylvania who to her credit just pretended not to notice, a dangerous and unfortunate spectacle that went on until the man's children shamed him into getting back into the car ("Dad, please!), we say: come on, is that really necessary?

Meanwhile, over in video on Philly.com, hosts Gabby and Catherine bring you their first installment of Down The Shore. First episode: The Beach. Gabby and Catherine head for Ocean City. It's a dry town (mwah!), but that won't stop their fun....Check it out.