Maine

Today was an awesome day of vacation activities. We woke up early (early according to Mountain Time, that is.) and headed north to New Hampshire and Maine. We went to York, Maine as our first stop and intended to make our way back to Portsmouth, NH to take a brewery tour. That did not happen because York was so amazing that we spent as much time there as we could! I saw an ad for their lighthouse online and thought it looked cool and it was. York was a sleepy beach town with plenty of lobster available to be enjoyed. We ate SO much seafood on this trip that I feel like I should be able to swim much better than I can. :) It was just so nice to be able to eat fresh seafood whenever we felt the need. Yum! I have, however, missed Mexican food and intend to have some when I get back to Denver. HA! :) You know it is bad when I miss Denver's Mexican food- since it sucks. Anyway, I cannot recommend York, Maine to you enough. It was just a great place to spend time. We all loved it! It was by far my favorite part of the trip and it was not even planned ahead of time. 

I was able to mark five states off of my list on this trip: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine. AWESOME! That's my kind of trip. We've decided that I'll be able to mark Vermont when we go to Niagara Falls sometime or we'll swing by there next summer when we come back to Boston to go to a Red Sox baseball game and head back to York, Maine. We just ran out time on this trip and that's ok. We stayed plenty busy! Susie says that she was not annoyed with all of our adventures to different states so that is good.

The roads in New England are something else. They have rotaries (roundabouts) that are just HUGE. They put Carmel to shame. ;) I am simply amazed that we were able to navigate so many towns and all of that East Coast traffic without a single incident. Yay! I think there is some kind of mistake with automakers, too, because those poor folks on the East Coast have cars without turn signals! It is the darnest thing. They also only know how to brake RIGHT NOW and never just slightly tap the brakes. Whew. Those people wore me out. I was so happy to get out of Boston's traffic (which was not even bad at the hours that we drove through town) this afternoon. I was a nervous nelly. 

We certainly had a wonderful trip. I'm now on my flight back to Denver then I'm hopping a quick flight to Colorado Springs. Again- do not get me started on how silly this route is because I could go one for days about it. I'm not looking forward to having an hour to drive once I'm off my flights. I'm exhausted and I just want to crawl into my big bed at home! I have a ton of laundry to do when I get home, too. That's the worst part of traveling: laundry! Thankfully I can get my laundry handled before Jackson comes home with all of his dirty stuff tomorrow evening. I have to be at work tomorrow at 8 so that means I have to catch the 7:15 train. UGH. That's such an early wake-up call. I am hoping that since I've been hanging out on the East Coast for the last couple of days I will not feel too bad getting up at 6 in my real time zone. (Getting up at 6 is not a big deal, I know, but it is when I won't get to sleep until at least 1 I predict.) I get to leave work at 5 to go get Jackson and MacKenzie from the airport. They're coming home. YAY!

The trip was worth being a little tired. Jackson is meeting with the realtor tomorrow to put the Westfield house on the market. Please, please pray that it sells quickly for close to the asking price. We really do not want to have to pay the mortgage on it for much longer. He will also be getting MacKenzie from my Mom and bringing her back to Denver. She has a new, fancy carrying case that she'll be sleeping in tomorrow for the 2.5 hour flight. I think she has had a ball staying with her grandparents for the last couple of weeks. She met all kinds of new friends-both dogs and people- in Susie's neighborhood. While at my parent's place she has even gotten Madison to play with her. That's a real feat!  I think that she (along with Jackson and myself) will sleep very well on Tuesday night. Then it is moving weekend and I have a feeling that I'll be working on Labor Day since the September 15th deadline is quickly approaching. Then next Wednesday school starts again. AHHH!!! I need a vacation. ;) That's our life: never boring and always busy. I don't think I'd have it any other way.