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The water was pretty rough. The waves were almost as big as those we saw in San Diego.

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Here is the first of a handful of pictures from our 4th of July Beach weekend. This is the pier at Old Orchard Beach, ME.

My wife is always getting me to try different foods. Tonight it's
Vietnamese food. I'll let you know how it turns out.

A few weeks after coming home from the most mega-massive vacation trip ever, we went on an over night drive to Old Orchard Beach, ME and followed that with a visit to another beach in Nahant, MA.

Trip wise, this is already the summer of all summers.

But where should we go next?

This weekend I am playing with my old band at a party. The next weekend we are babysitting my nephew and my niece. The weekend after that… ummm… I don’t know. Our google calendars have fallen slightly out of date. I assume at some point in the coming months the Mrs and I will be ready to go on another trip. Most likely a day trip.

The obvious choices are another Atlantic ocean spot (although the Pacific is still calling to both of us) or back to the mountains. I mentioned during our stop at Point Loma in San Diego that despite living in New England where there is a light house on just about every street corner, I had never been to an actual real light house before. (the old seafood restaurant in Tewksbury included) Maybe we could go light house hopping? We also once talked about going to look for waterfalls in Eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. That could be fun as well. Then there are those white mountains just to the north of us. We went up there for a couple of short trips over the fall to look at the foliage, but now we could go to look at the waterfalls and the flumes and fun stuff like that. There is also geocaching, which we’ve both expressed an interest in trying out. Now that we have a real GPS system to go along with our iPhones that should be easy to do, and lots of fun as well.

What other ideas are there? We don’t want to spend a lot of money, so anything more than a day trip is probably out. Also, as attractive as the idea is, a big city trip, like a return to New York, is probably not a great idea just because we’d spend all of our money on three card monty and fake rolexes.

So if you’re out there reading this and you have an idea of something inexpensive we could do for a day or so in Eastern, MA, Southern, NH, or Southern, ME please leave me a comment and we’ll consider it. If you don’t have any ideas please leave a comment and we’ll consider that too.

Thanks everyone.

Okay, I have tested out the two things I wanted to test out using Posterous and… well… neither of them translates all that well to Blogger. In fact, neither of them translates well enough for me to really ever use them again. Oh well, it was worth a shot.

You can click here to see the actual Posterous page those emails created, but don’t expect to see much more.

The only other thing that seems interesting is a way to update twitter and my facebook status simultaneously… which I generally don’t do. So I’ll probably just not bother with that one.

Okay, until the next cool looking posting tool comes along, I’ll stick with Blogger as it is.

Okay, so the audio player doesn’t cross from Posterous to Blogger.
That kinda sucks. What about their nice little picture viewer?

See and download the full gallery on posterous

The Sun by Break Even  
Download now or listen on posterous

TheSun.mp3 (4594 KB)

I just set up an account with Posterous in the hopes that I can post
multiple pictures to this blog using their easy email posting function
and their nice little display set up. They also let you post audio in
a nice little embedded mp3 player.
 
Does it work?

Friday morning we left home early and headed up north to Old Orchard
Beach. We spent some time freezing in the water before hitting the
rides. We paused for lunch before hitting more rides.

Saturday we thought we might be able to hook up with my sister's
family but it didn't work out. So what did we do? We went to an
amusement park for more rides.

After a few hours we drove the long drive home for a brief rest before
heading to a cook out in Nahant. We hit the beach again for a while
before heading home. We had planned to see the fireworks, but the
kids were so beat that we didn't make it. We decided it would be best
for all of us to just go home and sleep.

Today we are just flaking out at home a little. This afternoon we are
going to a cook out in Tewksbury and later we are hoping to catch
another fireworks show.

This has been the busiest weekend ever, and it's been fantastic!