Summer Recap, July Edition

July

We were busy in July! Between working, trainings, wrapping up my online class, and having some visitors come - July flew by! Our first visitors of the month were Randy and Erin, making their second trip to Maine! We had lots of fun doing lots of things! Here are just a few of the memories:

A beautiful sunset on our way home from the Dolphin Marina - our favorite restaurant!

I'm on a boat anddddddddddddd. :)

Seals and birds were about all we saw... but that's ok, we got vouchers to go again, and in August the Lyon's saw some whales!!

My favorite view of the Portland Head Light: from the water :).

I love Erin!

I couldn't believe how much food I had!! Bintliff's is AMAZING.

Friends :-).

The following afternoon we had brunch at the Front Room...and they have the most amazing mimosas!!

We had such an amazing visit with Randy and Erin! After they went home, we had more visitors come the following week! One of my oldest friends Jessica and her awesome moms Jackie decided to vacation in Maine! They came here for the first time, and we had such an amazing time! Here are some memories from their visit:

Whale Watching in Boothbay Harbor!

Nerd alert! This is where they filmed the movie version of the musical Carousel!! One of my favorites!!

WHALE! Right next to our boat - J was the first to see it!

closer than it seems from the picture...she was right there.

Seriously awesome. The 3 whale watching trips this summer seriously fed into my already burning desire to board the Sea Shepherd, and fight the Japanese Whalers....

Seals! They were like puppies, and there were too many to even begin to count. So cute.

Now check out this lobster dinner!

This PT student works hard :).

At Beans!

I'm so happy Jess and Jackie came to see me! I had a wonderful time with them, and I hope they'll vacation in Maine again next summer :).

Summer Recap, June Edition

June

June began with a summer grant writing class that was online. Will got a job working for Mr. Signs, Inc. I transitioned from intern to relief worker at Ray House. Around the 7 we headed home to MI! One of the main reasons we scheduled our trip for when we did, was so that we could go to this guy's open house: 

We're very proud of Mr. Michael Batora :). Duane and Grace are very proud too (pictured here)!

On top of Michael graduating from high school, my mom's birthday fell on the 11th. I was able to be home for this:

63 years young!

I missed her!

And mayyyyyyyyybeeeeeeeeeee there was another very important reason for going home when we did............

Glee!!

Between Sadie, Marléne and myself, we took about 1000 pictures....I'm not even going to bother posting anymore, but most of you reading are probably my facebook friend, so you can check out my album ;). Suffice it to say it was great fun! The only people who weren't there from the actual show were Mr. Schuester, Sue, and Quinn (Dianna Agron was in all the other productions, just sick during this one), so it was very much realistic. They taped Will and Sue's parts so it seemed like the rest of the cast was talking to them. We laughed, cried, sang along, and even got to get our picture taken with one of the Warblers! Definitely awesome!

There were some sibling moments, including a much anticipated basketball game the night before this picture was taken. Look how cute they are ;).

And to wrap up the visit, we had to go to our fav sushi place! I haven't found a place I like as much as AI Fusion here in Portland.......

The depressing after pic....



I won't recap about Anthony again, as many of you know he came back with us. Hopefully there will a post with new details about him coming shortly. :)

One other notable event from June, was that we went whale watching for the first time of the season. We wanted Anthony to have that experience, so Mary came along with us! We did see one, right at the end, but Anthony got a little seasick.......Just a few pictures for you:

June was a great month. It was amazing to go home to see our loved ones, and do some fun things :).

Summer Recap, May Edition

Summer 2011 by the seashore was a success! I'm sad it's over...my tan isn't anything to write home about, and I could always go whale watching another time or two....but overall, it was very full and pleasant. I'm going to break these down by month into separate posts, so that they aren't crazy long with the pictures :).

May

I ended my first year of graduate school, and Will began his job search. At the very beginning Susie and Charlie came to visit, and it was a great time. We're anxious for them to come back! You already got a post about them, so I'm skipping the details and pictures in here :). About a week after they left, my other half Ashley came to Maine! She'd never been, so we had a very busy weekend.

This is Ashley!

Some fun things we did included:

Did Portland things.

Went to the ocean! (these are Ashley's cute feet, not mine!)

Went to Bdubs and watched a playoff game (We didn't win, but we "celebrated" none-the-less)!

After our amazing our first day I woke up to my very first ever migraine...which put a gigantic damper on the rest of the trip, as it included many attempted naps on my part, and then a trip to the Urgent Care. Ash was a great sport, though, and she still did lots of other stuff. Like this: 

Hung out at this place.

Took a trolley to this place.

And most importantly, got a little bffsisterly time in before she had to head back from her long weekend.

Can't wait for her to come visit again!