Jamie and I went to Maine this weekend. The weather was awful! It rained the entire time. It was nice to see his parents, though. We got in around 9:30 on Friday with a ton of laundry. We stayed up too late talking and standing near the wood stove.

Saturday morning began with "breakfast interrogation." Jamie's dad, in trying to be helpful, goes a little nutty when offering food: "Do you want an omelette? Scrambled eggs? French toast? Toast? Bacon? Sausage? Scrapple? Juice? Coffee?" This continues, despite your refusals, until you actually eat something on the list.

He did give us a bunch of apples, though. I think I took too many! I also have quite a few carrots, not sure what I'm going to do with those either. Jamie's mom sent us away with some nice queen-sized sheets for the new bed.

We also went to see the swinging bridge in South Bristol. It didn't swing. Nobody was out in their boats. It was just generally unpleasant weather. Not really cold, but raining and miserable enough to make you feel like you were freezing. We didn't see any seals, either.

After that we went down to Pemaquid Point. (also see this site) The waves are fierce every day, but they were really churning with the storm. Jamie's told me horrible stories about tourists getting dragged to their deaths on the rocks and the behavior of some of the people there was really upsetting me. People had their kids down close to the waves, some even got wet! The water was just falling down onto the point from this huge standing wave, after a few close crashes I decided that I was a little too close and left for my own comfort.

Today I sent out some feelers about Latin tutoring. I've gotten positive responses from two Latin teachers, so we'll see if it turns up any clients.

On a side note, I finished my mom's hat and am about 12" from completing the scarf. I want to make sure I do that this week so that I can block it next week. I demonstrated cabling to Jamie's mom and she said something like "Oh, I can do that." People make things out to be too hard! When both are done I'll put up a picture.