Saturday, December 29, 2012

Annual trip to LL Bean for New Year's Eve Weekend


Today we left for LL Bean.  We have been coming up here for New Year's Eve weekend for quite a few years.  It always seems so relaxing after the hustle and bustle of the holidays!  Luckily we got here just as the snow started. 


On New Year's Eve day we took a ride down one of the legs of a penninsula to Orr's and Bailey Islands.  It was a beautiful sunny day. 



We stayed and watched a beautiful sunset!


We spent the evening at LL Bean.  Everything was decorated so beautifully: they even had fireworks.  It seemed weird watching fireworks in the winter, but we were bundled up.
 


On New Year's day we headed home taking old roads down the coast.  We stopped at York Beach and got out to look at Nubble Light.  It was so cold and windy that we didn't stay out there too long.


Then we took a walk on the beach.  It was actually warmer on the beach than at Nubble Light. 





Someone wrote this on the beach.


Happy New Year everyone!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Throwback Thursday - Happy Birthday Chris


Chris and Deb, 1990

My friend Chris's 65th birthday is this month.  Her daughter sent out a Facebook message saying that she and her sister wanted to make a scrapbook for their mom's birthday and asked if anyone would like to write a well-wish, memory, photo, etc. to contribute to it.

I sent this picture and wrote the following:

Chris,


Here we are, you and I, sitting at your little white metal kitchen table having coffee. How many hours do you think we sat there, solving all of the problems in the youth group? I loved sitting at that little table. Thanks for being such a big part of my life at that time, and also for so many of our church kids. You had a way of being a role model without them really knowing it. They just thought of you as a friend they could talk to. Nothing really rattled you and they knew it, and that is why they could talk to you about things they would never talk to their parents about.

You were then, and continue to be, one of my favorite people!

Debbie Radtke

Happy Birthday Chris!  I hope you enjoy your 65th birthday scrapbook.