Annual New Year's Eve trip to LL Bean

Paul and I have been going to LL Bean after Christmas for a few days, usually around New Year's Eve, since 2011.

This year was probably the coldest trip yet.  One morning it was -11!  I also had a bad cold which started the day before we left.  Even so, we had a great time with lots of riding because it was too cold to do anything else outside, lol.

This little video showed up on my Google Photos feed and I thought it was cute.  Highlights of our trip!

(If you hit the symbol in the lower right, you can see it in full screen.)

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!

New Year's Eve at LL Bean

I love coming to LL Bean on New Year's Eve. The decorations are so pretty. We must be getting old though; we were back at our motel by 8:30!!



The only thing we bought tonight was a new jacket for Paul. Tomorrow is another day though!!

Happy New Year! (from Maine)

Today was an absolutely beautiful day, sunny and 47 degrees. We took a coastal ride to Orr's Island, Bailey's Island, and Harpswell Neck, including Lookout Point where we had kayaked. It was so nice that we were able to have the windows open at times. This is where these pictures of the little doors were taken.


Little doors














Back in Freeport, we had dinner at a new place called Bucks's Naked Barbecue (the reason they call it naked barbecue is that the meat is served without BBQ sauce and you have your choice of four homemade sauces on the side). Paul considers himself somewhat of an expert on BBQ and he thought it was really good. It's funny, the building that the restaurant is in used to be a shoe outlet and at one time it was the LL Bean outlet store.





We (I) spent the evening shopping at LL Bean.

365/365 - New Year's Eve at L.L. Bean

Today we left for a weekend getaway to Maine and L.L. Bean. I can't believe that we haven't been here since August of 2009. It will be interesting to see what has changed up here; there is always something different at L.L. Bean.

We spent the evening at L.L. Bean. There certainly were a lot of changes. The coffee shop is now downstairs along with books and pet supplies where the kids clothes used to be. I think Paul is really going to like it. There are lots of comfortable chairs. For years their coffee shop was called the Dew Drop Inn and it was in the middle of their furniture department and book department. This made it really convenient for Paul to read until he fell asleep in a comfortable chair. Then they added their Hunting and Fishing store onto the main building and things got really changed around. The coffee shop was put in a little corridor. Anyhow, this new change is really good. I hope it stays like this for awhile.

L.L. Bean was decorated outside so beautifully for Christmas. Here are a few pictures.

Happy New Year!

I can't believe it is 2010! It seems like just yesterday the world was buzzing about Y2K. Last night after we brought Marley home I was flipping, looking for something to watch. I really didn't want to watch any ball dropping or New Year's celebrating, and then I saw the Twilight Zone Marathon. 46 hours of Twilight Zone shows. I remember watching these shows on Friday nights when I was a kid. I loved them. I remember wishing they were longer than 1/2 hour. We watched them last night and turned them back on this morning. We were thinking of going away for a couple of days. Paul wanted to go to an old tavern inn in Vermont for one night (until we found out it was $225 a night). Actually, what I think we both needed was a day to do nothing......except watch the Twilight Zone marathon.

New Year's Eve Tea Party

Year 2009 ended at our house with a tea party. In attendance were Marley, Baba, Big Baba and me - Grandma.

Marley's day care lady gave Marley an M&M cookie bar mix in a jar for Christmas, along with a mix for "Snowman Soup". Marley and I made the bars and hot chocolate and set the dolls up for our tea party. Even the cats joined in!






Marley finished the evening working on her Tinker Toy dinosaur with babies.



P.S. Even the cats joined in the celebration by sitting together for the first time (even though they were a little nervous about it)!