Kbunkport, Fortune's Rocks, Old Port

Spent a long weekend in southern maine...

 

Friday --  drove up to maine with my sista – traffic snags didn't bother us all that much because we never ran out of things to talk about. We don’t see each other very often – we talked about life and re-bonded over dunkin’ donuts. Here's happy sis:

                              

Saturday-- great lobster stew for lunch (thanks mom!), mall with mia to look for bathing suits. Tough time choosing – fortunately the salesman decided that I really shouldn’t spend money on more than one suite (“how much swimming are you really going to do this summer?” and “the others will be marked down in Sept anyway”) AND that I should buy the one on sale… interesting eh?  Anyway, I guess I should thank him for preventing me from spending the extra $75. 

 

Evening walk on Goose Rocks Beach. Beautiful night.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday-- motivated early and went to Fortune’s Rocks for a little sun worshipping – I ended up spending around 3-4 hours there, which would have been fine but I missed a few spots with the sunblock. Have some very unfortunate burns now, located on random body sections. Backless dresses aren’t an option until I can even this out a bit -argh. 

 

Fortune's...

 

   

 

Tried a new restaurant in Cape Porpoise for dinner, then decided to walk around Kennebunkport. We spent most of the time chatting with Evelyn and Bob Paine (of the W. Robert Paine Gallery) and playing with their two tiny dogs.  I have a few of Bob’s paintings in my house – of Goose Rock’s Beach and the Goat Island Light House - beautiful.

 

Monday –as much as I REALLY wanted to head back to the beach (sigh) my random burned spots compelled me to stay away. So Mia and I went to the Clam Shack for lunch (real health food)

 

     

 

and then to Portland’s Old Port to hunt for used CD’s.

 

Spent the evening with the homegirls at Michelle’s house – late night hot tub and all. Home by 2:30am – ahhh - just like the old days.

 

           

 

Tuesday – woke up late, biked around the beach with Mia, lunch with friend Ron at Federal Jack’s, errands, then home.

 

me and cap'n ron :)

        

 

 Lobster Time J   We had fresh lobsters from my dad’s boat (the “Spitfire”) with my aunt, uncle and cousin who are up from South Carolina – YUM.  And of course, we saved one for my return-flight lobster roll. 

Fun pics from the weekend...

                           

      

      

          

          

                         

     

                           

back in september!

Swimming in the Alps

Our last day in Mondsee was amazing. Beautiful weather, just a low key, fun day. Started by driving along the lakes to a little place for lunch with a nice view. Then we found a perfect swimming spot on lake attersee - no matter that it was private- the neighbors didn't seem to mind :)

the stairway we braved to get to this perfect swimming spot without permission... but the water called us! look how perfect...

 

4 happy swimmers: 

Post-swim we went back to lake mondsee, rented one of those funny little electric boats (it's name was Heidi - perfect, no?) complete with a crisp bottle of white wine and water (w/gas) for spritzers, and cruised around the lake. Once we found another great spot, we jumped overboard to enjoy our last local swim.

(pics to come)

Our last dinner was at a little place down the road... spectacular, really. The most amazing thing was the soundtrack while we ate - we recorded it so I'll post it here when I get it from matt.

4 happy diners:

view during dinner...

back in the square.... time for one last group-self portrait

 

German Smilies

while in DE mode, i just discovered this site - love these smilies!! 

       

            

and so many more!  http://www.reitforum.de/misc.php?do=showsmilies

Abstdorf: The Wedding

We discovered a new tradition - noon wedding, all night reception. The day's agenda:

--slept in, drove to the church around 11am -- 45 min ride from Mondsee to Abstdorf. Scenic drive along the lakes.

--noon wedding - roughly 2 hours. ceremony mostly in german but some english sections and translation. church was standing room only but we were up front. brief cocktail reception on lawn outside church.

--drove back to hotel around 2. lunch, nap and chill until 6pm for shuttle to reception (another 45 min ride) at Schloss Kogl in St . Georgen.

--cocktails, dinner - ALL NIGHT dancing and late night snacks until 4am shuttle home - roll in around 5am. Watch sunrise from shuttle while listening to drunken guests sing in shuttle microfone.

Beautiful event, fun fun fun dancing and singing and general merriment. Proud we were still standing at 5 am with no (major) injuries or illnesses :)

Church - check out cool double-decker bus w/giant pics of bride and groom across it.

   

Reception at the elegant Schloss Kogl

some details - outside courtyard and dramatic inner stairway/entry:

 

gardens:

elegant dining rooms:

view of couryard:

the garden after dark:

guys vs gals (have to admit, the guys were looking hot!)

 

happy couple:

 

 bussi bussi ciao... (my favorite new austrian lingo)