vacation: day 12

Posted on August 4, 2011 by emily

Just another down day, otherwise known as Emily’s Catch Up On Life-a-Palooza

Today I…

- washed dishes

- vacuumed my room

- brewed more kombucha

- made my bed

- put away all of my clean clothes (and, in a more or less directly related way, restored my treadmill to full working order)

- virtually shopped for a new iPhone case

- watched Buffy with my sister

- ate a great deal of barbecued meat

Also…I love this video. Props to Hannah for sharing it.

vacation: days 10 & 11

Posted on August 3, 2011 by emily

We like to take ‘down’ days in between our epic vacation road trips, so Tuesday (Day 10) was, for the most part, a relaxed day at home with good food and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.

Hannah and I did go out to run a few errands, and stopped in at PetCo because…well, cute things.

This hamster was sound asleep on his back. KILL ME NOW.

At the grocery store we bought cheeseless pizza fixings and coconut ice cream, and Hannah got a mosh-ready monkey from the toy vending machine.

Day 10 was pretty sweet.

{ newburyport }

We finally made it to Newburyport today (Day 11). The traffic was significantly less zany, and the weather was absolutely perfect. Newburyport is one of my favorite cities in New England, and having photographed it many times, I only pulled my camera out once today: when we took a break from walking and shopping, and laid on the grass near the docks. Pine trees and blue skies. This is New England in the summer.

vacation: day 9

Posted on August 2, 2011 by emily

We headed out in the late morning, first to Newburyport, but then the southbound traffic got a little…jam packed.

So we decided to go north instead.

We went up through Freeport, did a little shopping at Mexicali Blues, and then headed over to Georgetown.

The Maine coast can appear a bit ‘bumpy’ from afar, but up close it’s really quite fragmented. Islands and inlets make driving around the coast a far different experience than it would be in, say, California.