Tourist

On Saturday Erik was working on the house (yep it will be a theme again this summer) so Alec and I spent the day playing tourist.  We traveled down Route 1 to Ogunquit to walk the Marginal Way path and visit Perkins Cove. It’s touristy quaint. It’s not the real Maine. It was a half-day mini vacation from the mundane.

The Cove

 

Below is Alec checking out the view. And he immediately started in with the questions. What do waves help us do? What makes them go? Where is the sun?  (Good question..the sun was out when we left the house!) I thought I might had made a mistake taking him here. He exhausts my brain sometimes-so I did what any desperate parent would do when I didn’t know the answer “That’s a great question you should ask dad when we get home.”Hey-it bought me a moment of silence until the next round of questions started.  

We saw some wildlife. He(she?) did some quacking at us. It sounded silly. We giggled. He quacked more. It was fun.

This house was interesting –they had great landscaping- fun bright colors and best of all a sign over their doorway that said “Dreams do come true”

And their view from the house was this:

Nice!

There were plenty of benches along the way to stop, rest and take in the view.

We were silly too!

After our walk we stopped in the candy store for some ‘penny candy’. Ummm yeah right. Many pennies later…..

We drove back up Rte. 1 and stopped for lunch at a local favorite that I had wanted to try for years.

Since we had some candy earlier….we took the doughnuts to go after we ate some lunch.

Back in the car, we chose to stop at Mother Beach to play off the candy and lunch.

And the best part of my day? The smiles. We had a great day.