At Last We Meet

The last time we saw the cottage was September. Since then, it has been knocked down, carted away, and rebuilt.

We've watched all of this progress via photos and movies from Papa Art, but today we got to meet the new cottage in person.

We headed out from Natick early in the morning with a blizzard nipping at our heels. The plan was to make the trip up to Maine and back before the blizzard hit Massachusetts. Snow was already falling as we headed north in Goldie for her maiden voyage to Old Orchard.

We made good time and at around 11:30 we got our first glimpse of the new cottage. We pulled into the snow-filled driveway and scampered out of the car to inspect the construction. We inspected everything inside and out (the furthest we could get inside was the basement). The girls gave the cottage two thumbs up as they played with various bits of dangerous construction materials.

Once Stella and Marni completed their inspection of the cottage, they headed down to the beach. Not surprisingly, the beach was empty (given that it was 21 degrees outside). Instead of people, there were quite a lot of washed up lobster traps and a bizarrely enormous amount of gigantic clam shells.

We snapped some photos and then jumped back into Goldie to warm up. Then... we were off. Heading for home after the shortest visit to Maine in history. We stopped for some lunch and we stopped for some booze, and we didn't hit the blizzard until we were well into Massachusetts again.

It was nice to finally meet the new cottage, in person. "She" looks good. And I don't think it's going to take a lot of time to get use to our new summer home.