Done Worse

Well, it’s happened. We snuck away and had a good time WITHOUT the baby!!!

I know. I know. You didn’t think it was possible, but we’re telling you, it is.

How did this all happen? Well, Mike and I were trying to have a conversation while doing laundry,  picking up small bits of food strewn across the floor, blocking the baby from pulling out electric cords and/or shoving his tongue into an electric socket and trying to hear each other over the constant sound of “Buh, buh buh buh, hi, hi, buh, buh buh buh” coming out of the mouth of our beloved babe. It was then we realized: we really really needed some time away.

Fortunately the universe aligned and we could both get time off at the same time my parents were free to fly out and take care of AJ. YAY!

So where did we go? We decided that for once we did not want to fly a long way, we did not want to have to speak a different language and/or leave the country (and yes, I do realize that for us this is rather shocking), we wanted to go somewhere cooler temperature wise, and I wanted to go somewhere I’d never been before. Using biology, chemistry, physics and computer science we created a super half-biological, half- computer programming formula where we put in all of the above parameters and out popped: Bar Harbor, Maine.  (Also, that’s where most of our friends  and family told us to go.)

We had an AWESOME time. I call the trip ‘our non-competitive, non-contiguous triathalon’ as there was swimming, biking and hiking- all at a leisurely pace and none of which required a diaper change or emergency Cheerios. YES!

Highlights of the trip including me discovering Sorbetto- which is a non-dairy gelato that is to DIE for made by Gelato Fiasco out of Maine. The chocolate is sooooo chocolatey it defies the laws of physics. Seriously- I had a hard time keeping my feet on the ground as I ate it. There was the hiking and biking in Acadia National park. There was the eating in many fine restaurants without having food smeared all over our clothes.

And finally, most awesome of all was the bi-plane ride we took to see the whole island. Incredible.

On our last day we had plans to go on another hike, but then we decided to do the most indulgent thing of all for people with small children: read. We sat in a park and we read. We got a sandwich from the local food co-op and we read. We got some ice cream and we read. Then, for a change of pace we went back to our B&B, sat by the pool, and read. Finally, we went up to our room, and read. It was truly a thing of beauty.

Photos from our adventure can be seen here: Weekend in Maine

Photos from the rest of August- including photos my parents took with the boy while we were in Main can be seen here: Awesome August photos