The only one on my block

While spending the evening with my parents in Pinehurst, I received a very exciting gift. My bedroom down here is nautically themed and filled with books, paintings and knick-knacks relating to whaling, pirates, sailing and sea life.

Each time I stay here I usually find a few new books or little items my parents have picked up for my collection. This time, my dad presented me with several excellent items. In addition to a ship's model and glass decanter from the New Bedford Whaling Company, I got a blubber hook that was supposedly actually used on board an old-fashioned whaling ship. I cannot tell you how much that excites me.

Herman Melville is one of my favorite authors (as you will notice in the title of my blog) and I love anything to do with the era of New England whaling. I told my parents that if it wasn't so dangerous, I'd sleep next to my blubber hook. I couldn't find a good picture online, but it looks like the thing the murderer runs around with in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

I figure I'm one of the few girls my age who gets excited by whaling memorabilia and the only kid on my block with a blubber hook.