If you are in school, and you get Spring Break, you are supposed to head to the beach, right?
I went to the Maine coast! I spent a few days hanging out at my sister's house in Bar Harbor. She's renovating a house nearby to rent as apartments in the summer. She's ripping out floors and painting...
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I avoided helping, hung out in her lovely family room...
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... and local cafes...
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... drawing comics for school!
I wandered around town (mostly boarded up) looking at the beautiful houses.
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Then I headed down to Ogunquit, just in time for St. Patrick's Day.
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I was in desperation mode, having missed my fall ocean-fix this year (I started school!) and just standing there, looking at the waves went a long way to heal my brain.
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And sitting by the fire pit drinking Salted-Caramel Bailey's with Vanilla Absolut vodka... (mmmmm!)
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My friend Debbee was able to join me for a day and the OgunquitTangle Zentangle retreat was also going on at the hotel, so I never got the chance to get lonely.
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When we checked out, Debbee wrote this great entry in the room's journal:
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Then we roamed around town - the chocolate shop...
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And the Art Galleries...
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Abacus is one of my favorites! I REALLLLLLY want this amazing cabinet. And I want to design and build a house to go with it!
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I had such a wonderful vacation.
I hadn't realized how badly I needed it - as if the extreme depression I'd been experiencing wasn't a clue, right? I'd have to say that the instinct to "run away" is not something to be ignored.
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