Aaron and Meg’s Trip to New England: part 2

In light of not forgetting, I’m doing a photo dump and a list of our activities (basically all we do is eat). 

Saturday 

The sun starts to rise at 4am! 

Walk through Portsmouth 

Breakfast smoothie bagel burrito at the works 

Walk to island point of graves cemetery with headstones from the 1600s. 

Portsmouth and whale lighthouse 

Drive to York along coast -stop at a beach for shells. Spot a big red man of war jellyfish in the water by us. The water is PAINFULLY cold. Like ice. I can only stand it on my toes for 30 second increments! 

Nubble Lighthouse in York. 

Guy catching a huge cod,  fish n chips and ice cream, tide pools with shells/snails/hermit crabs 

Check in at Abracca, a recently restored inn from the very early 1800s. We are the first guests ever! 

Tour with owner, Dole, 😍 gorgeous rooms! Ocean view! 

Coastal hike at York harbor beach  the tide came in inland swallowed up the WHOLE BEACH! A hundred yards underwater in just a couple hours. 

Dinner on the shore at stones throw (salmon and fish taco) right on the shore. 

Ice cream 

Quincy at YW Camp!

(L-R- Ruby M, Addison N, Hannah G, and Quincy) 
I sent Q off to Rocky Grange for 2 nights at YW camp. I wish I could go!  I lived for Girls Camp as a youth and always dreamed of sharing those rich experiences with my own daughters as teens. I’m hoping that my friends who went up as leaders will take loads of pictures so I can live vicariously through their good fortune.  

Update: I was able to take Reese up for a couple of hours to visit with Q. Val and Tia hooked me up with a few pics of my sweet girl. She had a great time. She spent most of  her time with Addison N, Ruby M, and Annalisa (Annie) G. 

Aaron and Meg Trip to New England:

We flew into Boston late Thursday night, not getting to our hotel until nearly 2am Friday. 

Friday morning, we checked out, and hit the town! 

We started with Boston public market where Aaron fell in love with and bought himself a gorgeous sparred maple (and handcrafted in Massachusetts) wooden bowl.  We also found delicious bagels and died over the best pastrami sandwich ever from bean town. Pastrami on toasted marble rye with brown mustard and half sour pickles. So good! 

At the Farmers market we tasted and bought a bunch of rambutan to bring home to the kids, and a bag of California cherries because they tasted like my childhood in June. 

We saw Paul revere statue and the old north church. The bells were ringing at a gorgeous immigrant built Catholic Church so we popped in to watch part of noon Mass with every other Catholic in Boston.  We found mikes pastry for Boston creme pie and pecan salted caramel cheesecake and toured the  uss constitution abd learned about the war of 1812 and “old Iron Sides”.   We drove by the tea party site, and finished up Boston with a stop at Bunker hill.  I’m in love with all of the gorgeous doors and architecture in New England! 

We then drove north to NH and had a lovely air bnb just a short 3 minute walk from the harbor. We are the best fish tacos I’ve ever had (still dreaming about them!) then walked down by the water for dinner with live music and windows open to the harbor at the Striker (where tried our first lobster roll and New England chowder).