Maine vacation

[chanaleh]

Just to make sure it doesn't go unrecorded:

Sometime in April, the irrepressible jessruth said "I'm going to plan a solo getaway vacation for this summer." Me: "Let me know if you decide you want company..." Her: "Really? I didn't think you'd have time with everything going on this summer!" So... within a week or so, she had picked out the Cliff House in Ogunquit as our girls' spa vacation destination! She found a cheaper package rate for the weekend of July 7-10, so we went ahead and booked it, even though it was likely to be prime apartment- and job-hunting season for me. :-}

We drove up last Thursday afternoon -- it's barely an hour and a half from Boston -- and got in basically four days of watching/listening to the ocean (FROM OUR PRIVATE BALCONY!), chilling and reading by the pool, working out at the gym, and getting anointed and coddled in various ways (I got a pedicure and a facial and, God help me a "red algae detox wrap" with my full-body massage). Plus, on our ventures "off-campus", we found an awesome art gallery/store (the kind that invariably makes me go "I need to MAKE more stuff like this RIGHT NOW!") in Ogunquit, Art & Soul, and rode the Ferris wheel at York's Wild Kingdom in York Beach.

On the whole, not QUITE as epic as our great 1999 Cruise to Bermuda... but a worthy successor!

I took pictures, I'll try (bli shevua, without vowing, as the yeshiva bochur says) to get them posted before departing on this weekend's second-round apartment-hunting trip to NYC.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The Cliff House is a neat place. We stayed there in 2007 for Passover and had a great time.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Seriously? They make Pesach?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

There's a company that does Pesach tours every year, and for a few years in a row they used the Cliff House as one of their sites. It was just before the main season began, so the Cliff House was happy to have people come in to clean the kitchens and prepare the dishes for the business.

Sadly, the company stopped going to the Cliff House.

[goljerp]

Hey, if you're near my shul on Shabbat, my minyan's having a potluck (dairy) picnic :-)