Whoopie pies
Vacation is already halfway over and I’m freaking beat! We’ve been doing one day of horrendously tiring errands followed by one day of horrendously tiring fun stuff, which equals one horrendously tired me! But I’m loving it and obviously it’s heads and tails above being at the W word. I’ll give you the blow by blow:
Well, first, I’m obviously the most beautiful woman in the world, a la Helen of Troy, because I had a lovely Trojan Horse (actually 3 of them) delivered personally to my computer. The help desk (J) is not very happy andis convinced I’ve been doing something evil over there (I haven’t!). He’s a computer guy but absolutely hates helping the lemmings (me) with their stuff. So it’s out of commish and I’m using his. He got about up 4:50 this morning (because he does not know how to do this whole “vacation” thing and now I think he’s picking more strawberries).
Yesterday we met up with J’s sister, J, and her boyfriend K up in Bremen, which is a cute little town on Muscongus Bay. They have a camp that they stay at up there that’s a hop, skip, and jump away from a put it on the bay. It is so freaking gorgeous up there!! Oh my loving god. Lobster buoys everywhere… I want to think of a metaphor to describe them but I can’t. Every lobseterman has a different colored buoy to show where their traps are laid and they’re just so gosh darn pretty. Purple with florescent green stripes, Red with blue, blue with red, purple with yellow, etc. etc. etc. hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them, all over the bay. Less fun were the lobster boats pulling up the traps because they don’t care much about running over kayakers. I mean, hell, they’re just doing there job on a Tuesday morning and we’re out pooping around. So we had to keep our eyes open but it was fun anyway. Then we stopped for lunch on Crow Island. We had brought some italians with us (the sandwich, not the ethnic group) and sat on some rocks in the sun. Then a big group of campers showed up so we left. Then, more tootling around and then J wanted to circle Hog Island and head back. Well little did we know that hog island is the longest goddamn island in the world. In fact, it may be longer than the British Isles, I’ll have to check. Going against the tide, against the wind. Saw lots of jellyfish (global warming!). The only thing that kept me going was the promise that “once we get on the other side of the isalnd, the wind will be at our backs and ti will blow us right back to shore). uh huh. so we get to the other side and there are at least 4 foot waves (ahh crap!). Poor J & K were in river kayaks with no spray skirts. IT’s lucky they didn’t die. But we made it around the island, and then it was low tide and we got stuck in mud for half an hour. I got out to push and my shoes got sucked into this quicksand type mud. Finally got them out, after falling onto my face, then got a nice exfoliating scrub on my feet with the combination of mud, mussel shells, and jellyfish that I was stepping on. Finally got back… and you know I’m a mainer now because it was actually wicked FUN! There was a time in my life when it wouldn’t have been.
Then J & K made us burgers and whoopie pies and even though I totally deserved a beer more than any other time in my life, I’m still going strong with the 30 day challenge! I freaking rock my world, I really do. Such self control has never been seen. 4 more days!
What else? Sunday we went to Boston with absolutely no plan (did I already write about thsi?). took the bus down and just tootled about all day. Went the public garden and boston common. Looked at the gorgeous Beech trees (I would kill to have one of those in my yard.) The most beautiful thing in the world. Rode the swan boats on a whim…one of those tourist things that me and J never ever do because we are wayyyyy too cool for that. But, when in Rome. Did a little window shopping, had a crab cake at McCormick and Schmicks and back on the bus. I wore my pedometer and we went nearly 20,000 steps! ON the bus back, they played the movie Enchanted, which I thought was enchanting.
The other days we just did errands. I ripped apart the downstairs bathroom and realized I don’t know how to put it back together. Luckily, as of yesterday my dad officially lives in Maine so he said he’d help me. I also decided to paint it and got the paint - Simple Periwinkle. : ) My favorite color. J’s home, must look busy!
