NH and Maine Day

August 10, 2015 Monday

8:00am Phil
Happy Monday! Have a great day!

8:01am
Thanks! You working?

8:08am Phil
Yep! 2 1/2 long days so I can spend some time with the boy.

8:09am
Yay!

8:10am
I’m home, plotting a day trip

8:44am
He coming to see you or you heading out there?

9:02am Phil
He is coming here. Getting engaged at the beach

9:08am
Oooh! How romantic!

9:14am
This will make you an instant grandfather, right?

9:27am Phil
Yeah, I guess so

9:41am
What fun! You’ll be great!

10:55am
We’re off to NH and Maine!

11:13am Phil
Have fun!

4:27pm Phil
[photo of his feet up on his desk at work]

4:27pm Phil
Tough day

8:09pm
Finally home. What a day!

8:17pm Phil
Looked awesome!

8:18pm

Maine is so beautiful…

From my private journal

11:32 pm – Monday in Maine

Today I celebrated being alive! It’s been four years since I finished radiation treatment for breast cancer, so being alive seems especially wonderful! We went to NH and Maine!

I took a day off from work to have some fun. It was a perfect day outside – clear, 70s, breezy, so I poked around the internet to find a restaurant for brunch and something fun to do in Oqunquit. Trip Advisor and Yelp were great for me!

11:30 am We headed north.

12:30 pm Brunch – We found the little airstrip in North Hampton, NH and ate at their Airfield Cafe. It was a new find through Yelp (brunch near Seabook NH) and perfect in that “kitchy diner” way. They have a huge breakfast and lunch menu. I had Irish Eggs Benedict with corned beef hash instead of Canadian bacon. And a raspberry lime ricky.

1:30 pm We drove up to Ogunquit, Maine, found parking in the public lot and the cleanest public bathroom I’ve ever seen, then raced to make a boat tour.

3 pm We got on the FinestKind Lobstering Trip for $18 each. Captain Tom did a virtuoso job keeping the boat steady in the waves and showed us how to pull up lobster traps, measure lobsters and toss back the smaller ones and pregnant females. The rocky coastline along there is spectacular!

4 pm Early dinner at Barnacle Billy’s Etc. So so good. We ate outside on their patio with the stunning view of Perkins Cove. I had the lobster stew, bacon-wrapped scallops, and lobster sauté with a baked potato.