Maine vacation
Just to make sure it doesn't go unrecorded:
Sometime in April, the irrepressible jessruth said "I'm going to plan a solo getaway vacation for this summer." Me: "Let me know if you decide you want company..." Her: "Really? I didn't think you'd have time with everything going on this summer!" So... within a week or so, she had picked out the Cliff House in Ogunquit as our girls' spa vacation destination! She found a cheaper package rate for the weekend of July 7-10, so we went ahead and booked it, even though it was likely to be prime apartment- and job-hunting season for me. :-}
We drove up last Thursday afternoon -- it's barely an hour and a half from Boston -- and got in basically four days of watching/listening to the ocean (FROM OUR PRIVATE BALCONY!), chilling and reading by the pool, working out at the gym, and getting anointed and coddled in various ways (I got a pedicure and a facial and, God help me a "red algae detox wrap" with my full-body massage). Plus, on our ventures "off-campus", we found an awesome art gallery/store (the kind that invariably makes me go "I need to MAKE more stuff like this RIGHT NOW!") in Ogunquit, Art & Soul, and rode the Ferris wheel at York's Wild Kingdom in York Beach.
On the whole, not QUITE as epic as our great 1999 Cruise to Bermuda... but a worthy successor!
I took pictures, I'll try (bli shevua, without vowing, as the yeshiva bochur says) to get them posted before departing on this weekend's second-round apartment-hunting trip to NYC.
Sometime in April, the irrepressible jessruth said "I'm going to plan a solo getaway vacation for this summer." Me: "Let me know if you decide you want company..." Her: "Really? I didn't think you'd have time with everything going on this summer!" So... within a week or so, she had picked out the Cliff House in Ogunquit as our girls' spa vacation destination! She found a cheaper package rate for the weekend of July 7-10, so we went ahead and booked it, even though it was likely to be prime apartment- and job-hunting season for me. :-}
We drove up last Thursday afternoon -- it's barely an hour and a half from Boston -- and got in basically four days of watching/listening to the ocean (FROM OUR PRIVATE BALCONY!), chilling and reading by the pool, working out at the gym, and getting anointed and coddled in various ways (I got a pedicure and a facial and, God help me a "red algae detox wrap" with my full-body massage). Plus, on our ventures "off-campus", we found an awesome art gallery/store (the kind that invariably makes me go "I need to MAKE more stuff like this RIGHT NOW!") in Ogunquit, Art & Soul, and rode the Ferris wheel at York's Wild Kingdom in York Beach.
On the whole, not QUITE as epic as our great 1999 Cruise to Bermuda... but a worthy successor!
I took pictures, I'll try (bli shevua, without vowing, as the yeshiva bochur says) to get them posted before departing on this weekend's second-round apartment-hunting trip to NYC.