Entries For: October 2008

This is my mom's 75th birthday month and I wanted to make it special for her. I think 75 is a big accomplishment and I wanted to celebrate with her in style. I told her we could go anywhere in the country for a short trip and it would be my treat. After some hemming and hawing she finally eeked out "Well, you know how much I love lobster!" and thus, our destination of Maine was confirmed!

We invited my Aunt Dorothy (mom's sister) and my cousin Diana (Dorothy's daughter) to join us and we had quite an adventure! We ate at great restaurants, did tons of shopping and took the trolley tour into Acadia National Park and stood high atop Cadillac Mountain, the first place in the U.S. where you can see the sun rise! We visited Asticou Gardens, a tranquil Japanese-esque garden in the middle of fishing villages on Mt. Desert Island.

Our favorite afternoon was spent with Captain Karl, an expert captain who sails an 1899 Friendship Sloop in Maine in the summertime and heads south to the Caribbean to charter sail boats in the winter time. Pretty nice life, eh? And for all you single 30-something women out there, Karl's smart, funny and cute and "doing research" as he called the dating scene! :-)

I love travel for a variety of reasons. This trip was filled with laughter, time with my precious family and exploring new places. Mostly, it gave me some great perspective (as evidenced by this photo of me on top of Cadillace Mtn) on life and how I want to live it - totally, fully and completely alive each and every day!