Beach and Bean

The beach boys

"Go get wet and sandy!"

The Bean boot

It's another cool and cloudy day in Maine, so we headed by car up to Freeport, Maine, to the LLBean flagship store.  It was just a fun shopping experience.  There were attentive, gray-haired, knowledgeable, customer service people that all had Alaska stories to share.  Tired of shopping, we ventured to the beach again where the kids were again the only ones in the water and Kipp and I watched, shivering, where the surf couldn't quite reach our toes.  They had a ball, especially Trevor who invested all of his allowance in a wet suit for this occasion.  This is a wonderful place to be, I'm sure, when there's sun to mix with the sand.  Tomorrow is our first driving segment of the journey as we head north to Acadia National Park.  Our Nuvi(GPS), Jill with the Australian accent, is talking Kipp through all the intricacies of driving in a foreign place.  (I'm tickled that she's the one getting grumbled at instead of me.)