A Maine vacation

Last year we went to Boothbay Harbor Maine to visit Aunt Ellen for a week.  We spent a lot of time sightseeing, going to see lighthouses in the area, and shopping in the tourist trap section of  Boothbay Harbor.  One of my favorite shops was a glass blowing studio.  I’ve enjoyed watching glass blowers at work; their ability to make those beautiful figurines with molten glass simply amazes me! 

And of course, we had to buy souvenir T-shirts, and walk along the wharf, enjoying the sights and sounds of the harbor.  There are a lot of upper-class ships there!  I always wonder about how it must be to have that kind of luxurious lifestyle!  One afternoon Aunt Ellen suggested that we eat dinner one evening at the Boothbay Harbor Restaurant called Brown’s Wharf.  Brown’s Wharf isn’t just a restaurant, it is also a Motel and a Marina, with all the flavor of Maine that one could hope to enjoy.   Definitely someplace I’d like to go to again!

New cordless phone

I went shoppTecing with my wife today and ended up buying a new cordless phone. This one comes with three handsets, and has talking Caller ID! I had never heard of talking Caller ID before, and I think that will be a great feature for us because our phone rings a lot of the time when it really isn’t convenient to stop what we are doing to go look and see who is calling! That durn things seem to ring at dinnertime almost every night! We don’t like to just ignore it, in case it is an emergency, but most of the time it’s a salesperson that we really don’t want to talk to during dinner! So this will be great – to be able to just keep eating without getting up if we hear that it is not a family member or a friend calling!