Today we celebrate the birthday of Susan's mother. She flew out to New England Tuesday evening and has been celebrating ever since. Today Bernice, along with Dick and Dorothy, will drive up to Maine, stopping by Winter Harbor before going to Orono where we will all gather for a big family celebration this evening.
And of course the other big news is that anniversaries are also celebrated this week: Joyce and Carl's middle daughter Melissa and her husband Daniel celebrate their anniversary today, while Susie and I celebrated 24 years of martial bliss this past Monday. More of that in a moment.
This week has certainly seen some crazy weather: tremendous t'storms, lots of rain (Wednesday), up-and-down temps, all culminating in a gorgeous morning today with a champagne sky and a brisk morning breeze in the low 40s.
Naturally Schoodic Point has been packed lately with people eager to come and sit and stare at the open ocean, mesmerized, as if in trance just watching at the endless horizon do, well, nothing.
I can relate to that. It is hypnotic indeed.Anyway, Susie took off this past Monday, our anniversary, and the two of us drove to Bangor to go to the movies. (I also wanted to stop and check out camcorders since mine had finally recorded its last frame. I'm still looking.) We had not been inside a movie theater since Paris and in fact had not been inside a movie theater in the US for maybe a couple of years or more. Naturally we were eager to experience the wonders found inside a Maine theater and so we drove north, away from the ocean.
We caught a matinee of The Bourne Ultimatum at the Spotlight Cinemas in Orono -- probably all of a a dozen or so people in the theater. But they they had recently installed comfortable, stadium seating, the sound was good, the popcorn was fresh and the movie action-packed. What more could one ask for, eh?
After the movie we drove back to Winter Harbor and Susie fixed pizza for dinner. Not a bad way to spend an anniversary, Id' say. And we're already starting to plan for the Big 25 coming up next year. . . .
So today Gerrish's is quietly getting ready for the big Lobster Fest this weekend. Lots of preparation will begin this evening -- although we will be gone after midday Thursday until early Friday morning, spending quality time with family celebrating a most special birthday!
Oh, and for some more random images I shot recently out at Schoodic Point, just click here!
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