May 13 was our 20th anniversary! We were originally planning on going to Fiji but the girls' graduation trip plans fell through, so we ended up cancelling that and we are taking them to Costa Rica instead. So for our anniversary celebration, we went to dinner at Alder and Ash and then saw Phantom of the Opera. This was my third time seeing the musical. It is my favorite. The next day (Thursday) we left on a little get-a-way to Seabrook--just us and the dog. Seabrook is a little town on the coast with a cute little town center and most of the homes are Cape Cod style and have names like "Seas the Day", "Sand in the Toes", "Rain Oar Shine", etc. We actually stayed in a tiny little one-bedroom cottage. It was so cute! We got there Thursday afternoon, settled in, picked up a pizza and salad for dinner, then took a long walk with the dog down to the beach. On Friday we fixed a nice breakfast in our house then went to the town center and walked around...
We had a busy weekend. On Saturday, we left a little after 10:00 to drive almost 2 hours to my Dad’s. He recently moved into an assisted living facility. After visiting and having lunch with him there, we went to his old place that he and my step-mom (who just moved into a memory care facility down in the Portland area) just moved out of to pick up a mini fridge for the girls (one or the other) to have for their dorm room. We got back home around 3:30, then we packed up to head over to Crescent Bar. We just sold our condo there, so we needed to clear out some personal belongings before closing on Wednesday. It wasn’t quite warm enough to use the pool yet, but we did go in the hot tub Saturday night, and then on Sunday we took a nice walk with Kona and she got to play in the river a bit and run around in some of the grassy areas. It was very bittersweet selling the condo. Paul’s family has been going there for over 40 years, and I started going w...