leebee
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 14, 1999
It's hard to believe that Halloween is on Thursday! We are still having lovely weather, for the most part, for this location at this time of year. It's been in the upper 50s and lower 60s most of the week. We are about a month behind in both temperature and fall colors, which were late but gorgeous this year! Some years, we've had snow by now! I can tell it's mid-semester, though, and I have piles of grading to do an DH is so busy we barely have time to talk! We (very-unplanned) took yesterday afternoon and evening off, though. We had errands to run in Bangor so stopped at Bangor Beer (really nice microbrewery) for lunch. Got home around 4pm to a message from an old, dear friend who was in town for Homecoming. Met up with him and 3 of his old fraternity brothers and Orono Brewing Company (are you catching a theme here ) and spent the rest of the evening visiting. A surprise was when we discovered DD's in-laws were at the same location! Haven't seen them since the wedding last June. One of DD's bridesmaids was there, too! Small town life, right? DH and I had all kinds of work planned for yesterday and last night, and instead we'll be cramming all that grading into today. Oh well... we had a great time, and don't regret it one little bit!
In 2 weeks we'll have been in Indianapolis for our nephew's wedding and be on our way home. Two and a half weeks after that, it'll be Thanksgiving weekend and DD and our SIL will be here! Then there's one week of labs left, one week of check-out from the labs (so I'll be done with teaching), then finals week. We leave for Orlando on 12/21; we decided that we needed a "new view" on Christmas as DD has her own home/holiday traditions now, AND we will be ready for some down time and warm weather. We are spending one day at Universal to see WWoHP, one Disney day (breakfast at Ale&Compass, day at AK w/FP I'd hoped for then over to Epcot for Holiday Kitchens, Candlelight Processional, Epcot forever) on Christmas Eve, and 3 days to relax around the pool/bar, see a dear friend in Cocoa Beach, etc. Back to NH on 12/27 for 2 nights at my annual Cousins' Christmas Reunion, then home to ME on 12/29 and into a new year. I'm pretty sure it's gonna fly by!!
And that's about it from my corner of New England!
In 2 weeks we'll have been in Indianapolis for our nephew's wedding and be on our way home. Two and a half weeks after that, it'll be Thanksgiving weekend and DD and our SIL will be here! Then there's one week of labs left, one week of check-out from the labs (so I'll be done with teaching), then finals week. We leave for Orlando on 12/21; we decided that we needed a "new view" on Christmas as DD has her own home/holiday traditions now, AND we will be ready for some down time and warm weather. We are spending one day at Universal to see WWoHP, one Disney day (breakfast at Ale&Compass, day at AK w/FP I'd hoped for then over to Epcot for Holiday Kitchens, Candlelight Processional, Epcot forever) on Christmas Eve, and 3 days to relax around the pool/bar, see a dear friend in Cocoa Beach, etc. Back to NH on 12/27 for 2 nights at my annual Cousins' Christmas Reunion, then home to ME on 12/29 and into a new year. I'm pretty sure it's gonna fly by!!
And that's about it from my corner of New England!