Ogunquit, Maine, day 4

Another day, another diner. Cafe Amore was on the recommended list. It had a 20 minute wait, and the food was good. But Cove Cafe was better. We still enjoyed the atmosphere though and great coffee.



on our walk to the cafe.


'Knotical' Barometer. My favorite: 'rope gone: hurricane'



The library. VERY Old and built in memory of a loving husband. Quaint, have I said that before?


inside they had a replica of the library itself. Very interesting. It was worth the five minutes to see it (the library itself that is)


Another recommended outing was hiking Mt. Agamaticus. I thought we just had to do this because when would we ever get the chance to hike without children again? We drove to the starting point (though you can drive to the top). And chose our trail. We kept waiting for it to seem mountainous and it never did. This was the only disappointing thing that we did. Maybe it is because we live in a valley surround by giant Mountains in Asia, maybe because we are also used to blue ridge parkway beauty of a skyline, not sure. But this was not a real mountain to us, sorry locals. Go to Maine for the coastal beauty and laid back lifestyle (though we heard other mountains in Maine were completely worth it we did not have time).

view skyward from the trail





We took the foot bridge to lunch again and a sailboat was going out.


David decided he had to eat a real whole lobster while in Maine. This was his first time doing so, and I have to say, he did amazing. It helped that in our cabin there was a platter that gave step by step instructions. He read this before we left to go get the lobster.


Big red



This was meat he had just pulled out of the claw. what a good chunk. I could not help him at all, I did not even want any of the juices to get on me, who knows what would make me sick. So I cheered him on and he ate almost all of it. He said the taste was okay but probably not his favorite seafood, but then, anything taste good dipped in butter right?



After we washed up from lunch we walked the Marginal way to the beach again. But this time we did not make it to the real beach, we stopped in a little inlet area where people were swimming. We decided we would venture down and see if we could find a spot.


Here I am, though you can't see me. I have my toes in the water.
This day was really warm, so we talked ourselves into actually trying to swim swim, not just jump in and out. And since it was sunny and hot, why not.

We waded out to waist deep (slowly). Then we stayed there awhile (fifteen minutes?). We chatted a bit and gathered courage to take a real swim. By then I said, "this is so weird, my thighs feel hot." David then encouraged me by telling me that was one of the first signs of hypothermia!

I said I had to get moving, so we swam. A real swim. Not long, but under the water, real swimming. We swam some lengths out, and then slowly back in.Yes, it was freezing, but also refreshing, we felt like we really participated in the Maine beach experience, for whatever that is worth.




These rocks were so warmed by the sun that we both sat on them for a while to warm up


this is actually warmer than usual. It is usually mid-50's or so.



and of course we walked the Marginal Way back.



I love this view of walking right off the path into blue waters...

When we returned we talked with our hosts for a while and then went canoeing. This time we ventured even further out and loved every minute of it. We had a snack of ice cream in the perkin's cove area and shopped a bit before driving into town for a late dinner at a pizzeria.
And we had to have one last walk over the foot bridge for some Raspberry Sorbet as the sun set.
Beautiful area, beautiful days, Awesome God.



***The above incredible vacation was made possible by the Smith family and their generosity in a place to stay. And of course top awards go to Poppy, CC, and Laura who watched the girls for us while we were away, they stayed busy (and tired), but they too had a great time. Last but not least: David, who encouraged the whole thing and, I was truly able to relax and enjoy all God had for us during our time.

Oguquit, Maine, day 3

7.16.2010

Finally, I got a run in. I ran through town and then the Marginal way back, so refreshing. We had to go back to the Cove Cafe for breakfast so that I could get the Blueberry deal. After that we packed up some books and decided to actually go sit on a bench on the MW and read the Word and journal some. It was a little overcast and breezy at this point.
By the time we picked our bench in the shade I was quite cool. But we stayed for awhile and took in God's creation. Wow. To be still. This was one of the best things we did the whole time.



A really sweet couple took our picture and showed us how to flip the flash up on our camera (that we have had for 3 years).


We had hot dogs for lunch at this joint that lies just over the footbridge.


Perkin's cove shops and town, quaint quaint, like I said before.


A sailboat going through


Here is our cottage on a hill, right on the water.
We canoed this day, all through the Cove and out into the Ocean. Loved it, and it was great exercise.


view to the water from inside our cabin.

One of the things I knew we had to do was visit the Ogunquit Playhouse, showing 'The Sound of Music.' They use props from Broadway, get real good actors, and are always sold out. So we got dressed up and went to the play. It was awesome.





We ate at a great Italian place and headed for the playhouse (have no idea why this is underlining)









I cannot say enough about how well done the play was. I LOVE musicals, and who doesn't love The Sound of Music? David really loved it too, I am beginning to win him over to a love for musicals. But just that he is willing to do something he knows I enjoy shows how awesome a husband he is. This day was near perfect!

Ogunquit, Maine, day 2

7.15.2010

The bright light of dawn woke us every morning. But we still managed to 'sleep in' some. The acorns dropping on the roof throughout the night had me thinking someone kept knocking on our door. But we got used to it and had good sleep. We decided to walk to a recommended breakfast place right around the corner. On our way we saw all kinds of 'inns' and beautiful, huge houses.



The Cove Cafe. A delicious experience. Glad I don't live in this town, I would be fat, fat, fat!


I ordered the cinnamon roll french toast topped with strawberries. yum.

David ordered the cream cheese stuffed french toast topped with Maine Blueberries in syrup. Speechless is the word to best describe the taste. Both were incredible, but the next day I ordered his. My mouth is watering at the memory. We also ordered full test coffee, I love diner coffee. I got addicted to caffeine in four days, and had to wean myself off when we got home (bad headaches!).


Loved the attitude of the place....




Next we ventured on the trolley ride tour of the whole town of Ogunquit, We got the layout of the land easily.

This water looked gross. This is an inlet. if you were to go up this edge of water and take a left you would be in the Atlantic Ocean. We thought people were crazy for getting near this water and settling in for the day. Little did we know that at high tide this was the perfect spot and the water was clear (though still FREEZING). Crazy.


another view of the inlet above, taken from The Marginal Way. The Marginal Way is the #1 thing to do in Ogunquit. It is a walkway that walks the coast of Maine for just over a mile, it curves up and around, down into little coves, up on rocks, is paved and offers gorgeous views as well as little benches all along the way. Beautiful and romantic. We did the Marginal Way every day at least once.


Yes, people swam in the freezing water. Crazy people.



We walked the Marginal way back to our cabin, changed into our swimsuits and then took the footbridge to all the cutesy restaurants on the water. We ate at the Lobster Shack for lunch. David ate a lobster roll and I ate a BLT (one of my fave sandwiches, and being allergic to shellfish and who knows what else, I stear clear of ALL seafood). David burnt his tongue on the clam chowder and I was just jealous I couldn't eat it!

We walked to the beach and it was jam packed with people. We were not used to this kind of beach, people on top of people. This is because the weather was perfect, it was high season, and there really is not much 'beach' to speak of. Literally every spot of open sand was taken. We sandwiched in for a few moments before I convinced David that we had to at least attempt to swim in the iceberg water. We did it! I wasn't sure we would actually submerge, but once we were out there, no turning back. We jumped in and RAN out! We laughed at our selves and then laid down to thaw out.

After staying for maybe an hour, we took the trolley back to Perkin's Cove and then walked the five minutes to the cabin to get ready for an afternoon of reading, studying the word, shopping, drinking coffee, etc.


we returned to 'breaking new ground' coffee shop and set up camp on their porch on the water. After awhile I did some browsing in almost every shop on the Cove.


We drove into town for dinner, although we could have walked, but we decided we would try to do a movie afterward. We ate at Banditos Mexican Cafe. It was...okay. Wouldn't recommend it. Especially for Mexican food lovers like ourselves.


we used the timer to take this shot...


Lollipops, lollipops. These reminded us of Sophia, who we talked to daily.
We shopped the stores of downtown, LOVED the candy shop. I bought the end of the day reduced price caramel marshmallow thingy, yum.

We were going to see a movie in the Ogunquit theater but since we had never heard of the movie we did not want to waste our money. We decided to go to a later movie in a town about twenty minutes away. Why not? No Kids!

We went to see Karate Kid. We really liked it, being a Chinese setting and all. We were glad for our choice! Day two over.