next time you jump for joy...

do it like this:

this concludes my drawn-out "post" about maine. i'll try and make my life more interesting so i can continue some photo posting...

next time you ponder...

you should do it like this:

my love for pizza

as you may know, my all-time favorite food in the entire world is pizza.

if there was only one man left on earth and i had to pick between him and pizza, i'd probably pick the pizza (sorry, husband).

on a deserted island, i wouldn't take a book - just ask for an unlimited amount of pizza.

if i ever developed an allergy to tomatoes or cheese, i may die. because then i couldn't have my pizza.

ok, i think you get the point.

after a rough four hours of bouncing out at sea, we returned to dry land in portland and set out to find a place to eat. we had gathered a few recommendations of places to go, but at that point, anything that fell in the realm of sea food pretty much made us all sea sick again. so we settled on a place called "flatbread", recommended to us by one of my co-workers.

ahhhhh...this was the best.pizza.ever. maybe it was the environment of the place, the genuine organic menu or just the fact that pizza takes me to my happy place - but it was a.maz.ing. seriously. the selection of toppings was breathtaking - and they outlined some of their house specialties as a guideline, but let you go halvsies on your pie and make alterations as you order.

i apologize for the low quality of these two pictures. it took everything inside of me just to hold up my camera...

happy friday!

deserved sea sickness

many of you have probably already heard the in-person story of my husband's sea sickness while we were in maine.

however, what you may NOT have heard is that he ignored my recommendation (aka instructions) to take the dramamine prior to our boat outing! yes, you read correctly. he ignored them. just like he did on our honeymoon with that pink eye...

needless to say, discovering this information really got me going since i so loyally stood by him in silence for 2 of the 4 hours to ensure he didn't roll off the back of the boat!

these photos are SOOC from this glorious day. some would say a pay-back tribute to my dear hubby whom i love.

trail markers

we didn't have a chance to hike around cadillac mountain while in acadia national park, but these rocks are all over the trails as markers for hikers. we loved the views and realized this was our first time experiencing the mountains and the ocean at the same time - and the islands out in the water were amazing. i can only imagine what this view would be like in a few weeks come "leaf peeping" season!

which way?

apparently an icon  around kennebunkport - we stayed at the "maine stay inn" bed & breakfast!

this friday is brought to you by....

...chrysler

this fancy-pants sebring convertible was our chariot for the long weekend (thank you enterprise!) 

aside from the potential for disaster with a soft-top during hurricane earl, it actually turned out to be really fun - riding around the coast with the top down, michael scott style!

bar habor fog

pretty self explanatory. really cool and kind of creepy at the same time considering this view is of the water, islands and boats at 6 p.m...

perfect sunset

going through all my maine pictures seems very daunting, so i think i'll go through and post some one by one this week.

kennebunkport is also home to one of former presendent bush's estates. while we were driving along the coastline to check out his digs, the sunset was just perfect - and so was this little church!

labor day

wow - so the blog has been silent for a few weeks, and i was excited to see kristi and brandt both noticed by commenting a few times on the last blog, which essentially became a creepy "no face" placeholder :)

so out with the old and in with a new post! lots of things have been going on these last few weeks in our life, which have kept me from tending to my attempt at daily photos. i do hope to pick this back up soon because i think the daily photo journal idea was so fun!

this past labor day weekend, we took a long-awaited and much needed four day trip to maine with our good friends eric and kelly (who just got married in june and moved to nyc). it was great being able to spend so much time with them and catch up on life - and of course explore the cute towns while dodging hurricane earl (who actually wasn't too much of a threat other than some dense fog interfering with the smiths' incoming flight).

brandt and i got there a day before the smiths, so we headed up to the bar habor area to check out the seaside city and acadia national park. we also were able to meet up with some other great friends and their daughter for a late afternoon drink! (in the picture below, you will notice the fog rolling in behind us). friday night through sunday morning we spent time in kennebunkport - enjoying the food, cocktails and our own private cottage at a locale b&b. brandt and eric did karaoke that night, to which i did capture some video that may be posted here later...

sunday we headed back to portland and spent 4 hours that afternoon whale watching in the open sea. the picture you see below is probably the only enjoyable moment we experienced on the boat - let's just say the post hurricane waters were extremely rough and some in our group got sea-sick off the back of the boat while the rest of us closed our eyes and hoped it would all end soon. to top it off, we didn't see any whales - but the overall experience was one to remember and in hindsight, very hilarious!

once i get more pictures uploaded, i'll sporadically try and post them!