Friday dawned sunny and hot, and we returned to the Ogunquit beach. (It's contrary to the Avery family tradition, which dictates Long Sands in York, but we liked the convenience of Ogunquit's geography - being able to grab breakfast in town and walk to the beach, spend a couple hours there, and then walk back into town and eat lunch - with no driving once we arrived.)
As soon as we arrived, Sebastian demonstrated his best yoga down-dog pose -
but he wasn't entirely pleased with the result -
Beach time was great. Sebastian was more comfortable running around and playing in the shallow waves, and he was happy to go with us as we waded out a good distance into the water.
After lunch in Portsmouth and Sebastian's nap, we went to York Beach and played in the town for the afternoon. We went to an old-fashioned 10-pin bowling alley and tried to help Sebastian to knock over some bowling pins.
We went to the amusement park, which is old and creaky but still fun for a small boy. Sebastian was fascinated by the mini-train and really really wanted to go for a ride, but when we put him onboard and left him there he totally melted down. (I think you can see the beginnings of his distress in our picture.)
So we scooped him up and went on, to an amusement ride that Sebastian and I could go on together. There was a funny elevator-ish portion, a moving sidewalk, and a spinning tunnel. We went through twice, and Sebastian had to be dragged away. (Click on the picture to watch the video.)
Steve wasn't feeling well that evening, so Sebbe and I had dinner together at an outdoor cafe called Frills. I had some amazing fried clams. Seb sat on my lap and then wandered around the patio touching the flowers and making shy eyes at everyone. After dinner we took a lovely long walk along the Marginal Way, in the twilight, looking out at the ocean.
Saturday morning we had a terrific breakfast at a place called Cafe Amore - french toast, fruit pancakes, hash, eggs Benedict. We went to the beach for one last visit, and Seb spent most of the time playing in the puddles left by the receding tide - warmer, no waves.
After a final, valedictory stop at Brown's ice cream, we drove down to Boston. We had a hotel right in downtown Boston, on the harbor. We walked into the North End and had pasta at an Italian restaurant, then wandered Quincy Market, and the harborfront (boats! boats!).
There was a carousel set up in the middle of the avenues, and Seb and I took a ride together, waving madly at daddy every time we went by.
Sunday morning we took a water taxi boat around the harbor for 30 minutes - Seb's first time on a boat.
He thought it was great fun to be surrounded by "wa-wa".
We got dropped off at the Children's Museum, which was directly across from our hotel - spent an hour playing with the various exhibits of balls, bubbles, trains - and then packed up to go home.
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