Yep, you read that right, I took a mini vacation in the town that I go to school in. And boy, was it lovely.
Here's why:
My beautiful mama came to visit me on Friday and I was able to spend the weekend with her at this fabulous bed and breakfast just three minutes from campus. I got to sleep in a fluffy bed and was provided three delicious meals each day. Quite the change from my normal COA weekend of scrounging for food (that is an enormous exaggeration).
It was really nice to get away from campus, though. I love COA, but sometimes it gets to be too much (I'm an only child, you see).
My mom drove the seven hours on Friday to arrive in Bar Harbor at about nine. I went over to inn not totally expecting to end up sleeping over, but before I knew it, I was crashed on the bed watching Portlandia at nine and there was no way I was moving. And so began my vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine.
On Saturday, we snowshoed into the park and got a little lost like the tourists we were and eventually ended up back in the car driving over to Eagle Lake.
Our evening ended with a lovely drive to Somes Sound and the snow began to fall.
Once again, we found ourselves lost and confused in the flurries, but this time we were in the car. Clearly, iPhones aren't good for everything.
When we finally got to our inn, we parked our car in the already snowy parking lot and walked to Side Street Cafe to eat the burgers we'd been craving all day. They were absolutely delicious and come highly recommended from two burger lovers from Vermont.
It kept blizzarding all night and the next morning, the outside world looked like this:
I'm a powder loving downhill skier...I love how in Bar Harbor, I have to distinguish downhill and cross-country, whereas where I'm from in southern Vermont, most people downhill ski…anyway, I was absolutely in my element. The snow was fluffy and all I wanted to do was put my skis on and find a hill. But somehow, it's not totally worth it to me to climb a mountain for just one run. (this is a super cool article for those of you who also love downhill skiing)
Tangents are fun, right? Anywho, we played on and off during my study breaks and watched my dad's friend's daughter in the olympic boarder cross which was sufficiently awesome. (check her out! she's super cool.)
So, you're probably wondering if there is a point to this super long post. And YES! There is!
I wrote this in retrospect of my absolutely lovely weekend with my mother thinking about how many things I don't think of doing when I'm sitting in my dorm procrastinating (because, yes, I am, in fact, a very awful procrastinator). Sometimes, you need to get away from the place you are in order to see something like this. It's almost as important to get outside and play as studying for that biology test on Monday is (and yes, you may be wondering, I do have a biology quiz on Monday. Hooray! Or not.). Moral of this long story:
Don't waste your time this weekend watching cat videos, waste it right here, in our beautiful backyard.
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