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| Night 1 in the 1960s. |
This year's Maine vacation started under a cloak of secrecy.
The Shepards snuck into OOB a day early in order to help with Nana Bev's surprise 80th birthday party. As far as Nana Bev knew, we were not scheduled to be in Maine until Saturday. But, after an overnight stay in a
1960s motel in Sturbridge, Mass. on Thursday, we slipped into Maine on Friday to join Toots and Glenn.
The party went off like clockwork on Saturday and Nana Bev was duly surprised.
Sunday was a warm sunny day and everyone went to the beach. That night we went to our first-ever
Old Orchard Beach Raging Tides baseball game. Loved it (and we won in extra innings).
We did our usually OOB stuff until we headed to Mt. Washington on Thursday. The girls splished and splashed in all the Mt. Washington Hotel swimming pools until dinner.
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| The portrait. |
On Friday we met with cousins Claire, Larry, Randy and Steven as they coincidentally started their Mt. Washington Hotel vacation. While we were waiting for the cousins to arrive, the girls sat for a portrait in the hotel lobby.
When we returned to the cottage Friday evening, cousins Randy and Rochelle were waiting for us. Randy and Ro stuck around for fun in the sun until Saturday afternoon. On Sunday we went canoeing in the
Scarborough marsh. We were very happy to get back to dry land.
On Monday morning Daddy's taxi didn't show up, so he had to drive himself to the airport at 4:45 am.
On Friday Daddy missed his flight back to Maine and had to hang out at JFK until the next flight... 3 hours later. By missing the flight he (I) also missed connecting with our honored guests Theo and Cindy who had just flown in from L.A.
Theo and Cindy stayed until Monday and thoroughly enjoyed their stay (despite Stella and Marni).
And on Monday, Daddy flew off to NYC again.
So ended week 2.
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| Helping the Chef for Nana Bev's party. |
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| Cooking. |
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| The surprised birthday girl. |
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| The food. |
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| Glenn giving instructions on how to eat. |
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| Dressed up for Nana's party. |
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| Eating on the hammock with Lilly. |
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| The cousins and their tongues. |
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| Best buddies. |
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| Cousins (and Papa Art). |
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| Spilling out into the side yard. |
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| Helping Nana blow out the candles. |
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| Our first-ever Raging Tide game. |
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| This ball came whizzing past Marni's head. |
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| Baseball fashion. |
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| Crabbing. |
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| Snoozing at the Mt. Washington Hotel. |
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| Hot mama, poolside. |
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| Hot chocolate time on the hotel porch. |
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| The beauties. |
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| Enjoying ice cream at our new place, Garside's. |
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| Sleeping beauty. |
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| Enjoying the beach. |
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| Fun in a rain storm. |
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| Beach babe. |
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| The girls and Ro at the Lobster Shack. |
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| Canoing in Scarborough. |
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| Theo, Cindy, us and 6 more friends. |
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| Cindy playing Monopoly with the cheaters. |
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| Dinner at Fore Street. |
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| A little B.U. reunion with Eileen. |
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| At the Portland Head Light. |
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| Torturing Cindy. |
