Monday in Maine
Aug. 11th, 2015 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bex77 Monday 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 before the crush of work to start the semester. 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.
5:30 pm we headed South. There was almost no traffic!
7 pm We stopped at Brandano's, the local ice cream place, for a butter pecan soft ice cream... yum.
This is the kind of day that will keep me warm all the way through to February!
-B
I took a day off from work to have some fun before the crush of work to start the semester. 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.
5:30 pm we headed South. There was almost no traffic!
7 pm We stopped at Brandano's, the local ice cream place, for a butter pecan soft ice cream... yum.
This is the kind of day that will keep me warm all the way through to February!
-B
