Back From Maine

[plumtreeblossom]

The weekend in Maine with beowabbit was over too fast! We got home yesterday afternoon rested and snuggly from our adventure. Our first out-of-town weekend was a delight.

We stayed in a remote B&B in a wee Maine hamlet that featured Finnish saunas and a huge hot tub. Can you believe this was the first time I was ever in a real hot tub? We arrived too late on Friday for sauna and tubbing, but on Saturday evening we joined the lively group of regulars who frequent the sauna as much for socializing as for the general deliciousness of all that heat in the midst of still-snowy Maine springtime.

We only had a few minutes in the sauna because it was so busy, but we spent a long, luxurious time in the bubbly hot tub. It was outdoors, under the night sky, full of interesting folks to talk to. It was a good four feet deep in the middle. It felt soooo good to sink up to our necks in the fizzy heat of the tub, then pop out and sit on the edge to be cooled by the night air, which I would estimate was in the 30s. At one point we scampered out to take a dip in the enclosed swimming pool (icy by comparison!) and Wabbit did better at that than I did. Then back in the tub.

Our room had a canopy bed draped in mosquito netting. We had a number of very good meals in town, with the only culinary downside being that we did not get to have Arby's! Right before we left Boston, I got it in my head that we needed to find an Arby's if we could, because I love it and there aren't any Arby's in the Boston area anymore. We did locate one, and my beloved beowabbit gallantly got us there (twice!) but it was closed both times. Outside of greater Boston, New England is CLOSED on Easter Sunday, just so you know.

Just like in A Christmas Story, we were saved by a Chinese restaurant in Portland when our bellies were woefully empty of Arby's. Then we wandered into an antique shop run by a classic, friendly old Mainer who chatted with us before our final leg home.

Thank you, sweetie, for coming up with the perfect getaway weekend!

Comments

[beowabbit]

Thank you so much for sharing it with me!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

My pleasure (in every sense of the word!)

*kiss*

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

And thank you both in advance for sharing it all with us. 8)