I love Uber! If you sign up using the promo code you’ll get $20 off your first ride, a Total No-Brainer! : http://www.uber.com/invite/kypfk

So last night we had a few adult beverages and left our rental downtown Naples instead of driving with a buzz on. Dialed up UBER on the cell phone and got home safely.  I’ll never understand people who refuse to take cabs or, now, UBER instead of driving drunk. 

Here’s our sweet UBER car that picked us up this morning to go retrieve the rental car-

But anyway I took a video of my screen on my cell phone which shows exactly how it works and why seeing exactly where your car is and the type of car that’s picking you up and your driver’s UBER rating is so cool.


Watch the video of how it all works here-

and some screenshots-

   
 
I love Uber! If you sign up using the promo code you’ll get $20 off your first ride, a Total No-Brainer! : http://www.uber.com/invite/kypfk

From the archives , 2011.

50 Shades of Mother’s Day

An opportunity to learn the fine art of flower arrangement by Celia of Celia’s Flower Studio: Thursday, May 21st from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Admission $35 for instruction and your own beautiful creation. Limited 15 spots, please rsvp to Cynthia by Monday, May 18th. (978)353-9111

77 Langsford St. Gloucester MA • 978-879-4683 • www.flatrocksgallery.com
Open Thurs. through Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment

Martin writes-

Sunday was the 10th annual Mad Hot Ball.  For the past three months, every 5th-grader in the city learned ballroom dancing techniques at school.  On Sunday they demonstrated their steps to a packed GHS field house, and competed for prizes in a variety of dance styles.

Discover Gloucester through its architecture and artists

The Cape Ann Museum will be offering a series of walking tours – Hopper’s Houses, Historic Middle Street and Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester – on Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. beginning on May 2. Tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978) 283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details.

Hopper’s Houses

May 2, May 23 and June 13
American realist painter Edward Hopper first visited Cape Ann in 1912. Returning in 1923, Hopper began working in watercolor, capturing the local landscape and architecture in loosely rendered, light filled paintings. During his final two visits to the area, in 1926 and 1928, Hopper produced some of his finest paintings. This special walking tour will explore the neighborhood surrounding the Cape Ann Museum, which includes many of the Gloucester houses immortalized by Hopper’s paintings.

Historic Middle Street

May 9, May 30 and June 20
Discover Gloucester’s historic Middle Street—an ever-evolving neighborhood packed with four centuries of social, economic, and architectural history. On this tour in the heart of downtown Gloucester, visitors will see surviving evidence of the past and learn about structures and people now gone.

Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester

May 16, June 6 and June 27
Fitz Henry Lane was a Cape Ann artist, printmaker and world-renowned American marine painter. With his subtle use of gleaming light, Lane is generally regarded as one of the finest 19th century practitioners of a style known as luminism. This tour takes visitors on a walk through downtown Gloucester to learn about sites that were part of Lane’s life as well as to look at some of the views Lane painted.

The Cape Ann Museum tells multiple stories, all relating to Cape Ann. Founded in 1873, the Museum’s collections represent the history of Cape Ann, its people, its industries, its art and culture. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.

The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 adults, $8.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.