Day 1 in Maine- "Tasting"

OK, so here is the first post from our vacation to visit our friends. Christine had a great idea... each of us are going to post our very favorite pictures and describe the day from our perspective. It should be fun to see the differences. I had a REALLY hard time choosing which pictures to post. Check out her version by clicking her highlighted name above...

Now, the afternoon we flew in we had a little adventure. Ted and Noah picked us up in Boston and we were on our way to their house where Christine was slaving in the kitchen to make us a yummy spaghetti dinner. We were an hour into the 3 hour drive when the van decided it needed a break, so we took a little detour into a town in New Hampshire (I can cross this state off my list of places to visit now!). We had a lovely impromptu dinner at a little cafe (although, it was not as yummy as the spaghetti waiting for us back in the kitchen) and browsed in a nice little home decorating store while we waited for our new driver (Christine) to come south to rescue us. We thought we did a good job of entertaining ourselves inconspicuously, but apparently we were fooling ourselves... As we left the store, one of the guys made a crack about a male employee (who was on the phone for the last few minutes we were in the store) saying he looked like he was calling the cops on us. We all laughed and walked out to find a police cruiser slowly inching past the storefront keeping his eyes on us the entire time! (the center was closing soon and we were about the only people in the area.) I guess we were not buying anything so... Christine got there JUST in time! Boy, those Yankees are a suspicious bunch! ;-) On our first full day they took us to the Sea Dog Brewery where they brew their own beer (and do some cooking too). We went to do a little "tasting". Here is the gang (minus one awesome hostess) in front.
Above is Sampler tray of their very own beer.

This was Harry's face throughout pretty much the entire tasting!


Harrison is ready to taste anything right about now!




Sophie is doing a little "tasting" of her own! What a cutie pie!

I "tasted" some Maine Blueberry Pop and REAL New England Clam Chowder while I was IN New England! How cool is that!?! Campbell's has nothing on the Sea Dog!

This REALLY IS Blueberry pop! Looks like Noah has been hitting the Sampler Tray too!

After we got home from the Island, the girls let the hens "taste" some of their feed too!

Maggie is thinking about "tasting" the Southern visitors or the hens, I'm not sure (not really, but the night before for sure!) . She really warmed up to us pretty quickly. What a beautiful, well-behaved dog.