We left Irvington on Tuesday morning - not terribly early, since we wanted to time the bulk of the drive with Sebastian's usual midday nap. We stopped in Katonah for lunch and then went straight to Boston. Our hotel was right next to a park and playground, so as soon as we arrived Seb and I went and kicked our soccer ball, threw our tennis balls, played with a really cool water fountain, and went up and down the slides. We had dinner at an amazing Afghan place in Cambridge. Amazing. We ordered it to go and ate dinner by the side of the Charles. Sebastian ran around throwing his tennis ball and going up and down ramps and stairs while we devoured the lamb, pumpkin, and ravioli-ish things.
Wednesday, Steve had a bit of work to finish up in the morning, so Sebbe and I hopped on the Boston T train and rode into the middle of downtown. Seb was in heaven. First a ride on a choo choo train and then to be surrounded by traffic and people. We ran around the big central plaza, checked out a statue or two, and watched traffic for awhile.
We then drove up to Portsmouth, NH, where we had a hotel for the night. We were really pleasantly surprised by how fun and busy Portsmouth was - lots of cute little shops and restaurants, and a lot of pedestrian traffic wandering the downtown. We visited the toy store and book store, and had dinner at a brewing company. But before that, we drove to York Beach, Maine, and I got to introduce Steve and Sebbe to the joys of Long Sands beach. The sand was so soft. Sebastian took an instant shine to it, plopping himself down and getting covered.
We ran in and out of the water, walked halfway down the cove, watched some surfers, and investigated other people's sand castles.
Thursday was a very grey and windy day. We drove up to Ogunquit and visited the beach there. It was actually not so bad that the weather wasn't perfect beach weather, since it meant that we had much of the beach to ourselves. Seb has become quite good at kicking a ball and he ran around the beach kicking and dribbling his little ball.
He was fascinated by the long rope attached to the buoys, as well as by the buoys themselves (which he called balls). He piled sand on the rope, tried to move it around, and jumped over it again and again.
Beach time ended when Sebbe accidentally fell into a shallow part of the water. He was running on a sand bar, tripped and fell in. At first he thought it was funny, but then he realized that he was freezing cold and started to shiver and cry. So we hustled off and got him dried and changed. Ogunquit runs trolley shuttle buses around the town, from the beach to town center, then along Shore Road to Perkins Cove. Seb was absolutely fascinated by them - "bus! bus!" was his constant refrain - so we hopped on and rode the trolley up to town for lunch. We picnicked along Shore Road, Seb with some focaccia pizza and us with a fried fish sandwich, clam chowder, and a crab roll. So yummy.
After Seb's nap we went to Nubble Light in York. First stop was Brown's ice cream, where the three of us shared a sample cup of three flavors - blueberry, vanilla with chocolate and nuts, and chocolate with walnuts. We all loved the ice cream.
We then continued up the road and clambered and crawled and climbed all over the rocks overlooking the lighthouse and ocean - Sebastian didn't need any prompting to tackle them.
For dinner, we ordered from Fox's and ate our lobster and corn sitting outside, watching the sun go down.
More tomorrow...
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