Diamond Corner Bed and Breakfast
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Last Day with the Shifrins
Today was bittersweet as it was our last day with the Shifrins and our time in Maine was drawing to a close. Besides, we needed to start thinking about things like getting the kids to the Doctor so they could enrol in school, setting up our apartment and, in general, beginning the process of readying ourselves to get back into a routine and starting school and work!!!! Therefore, what better way to enjoy our final day then to pack up the car and head back down to Dummers ...
Ladies Day Out
... home just before 7pm to a lovely dinner of homemade calzones.
While this was going on, Tim, Brett and the kids made their way back to the camp on the lake and spent the day on the sailboat, tubing, kayaking, swimming, eating hot dogs and hamburgers for lunch and all around relaxing. They packed up the kids and made it home in time to make the calzone dough, prepare all of the fillings, assemble the calzones, put them in the oven and slurp, errr I mean sip, a ...
3 Peaks and 3 Beers
... hard work of the previous hours of walking, we all jumped in the lake and had a delightfully cool and refreshing swim. This cooling process was greatly aided by beer #3. Then we walked back down the hill and the truck for the short drive back to the Shifrin house. It was a wonderful walk and great to get out in the Maine mountains and remember the different scenery and environment provided by northern New England hardwoods. The only complaint about the walk was the aching leg muscles ...
Playing and Building
... to disintegrate so we put them to bed, cleaned up and sat down with coffee, beers, and tea for our second night of board gaming. Tonight we played a favorite of Brett and Sara; Settlers of Catan, This is a risk/monopoly type of game where you accumulate property and resources in order to gain a target number of points. This game took longer but when we all went to bed the game tally was as follows: Tim 2, Brett 0, Sara 0, and Jess ...
Back with friends
... frosting. While the cake was cooling, we went down to join the rest of the crew at the beach and all had a quick swim and then returned home for a wonderful dinner of homemade pizza. Kids and grown-ups hung out and after the kids went to bed, we began our nightly ritual of playing board games. Tonight was Monopoly and it went down as one of the quickest games in history and before you knew it, Tim was victorious.
Adult game tally: Tim 1, Brett 0, Jess 0, and Sara ...
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