A weekend of eating...and a bit of skiing

Snowman's parents came up for their "Christmas present" this weekend. The present being a weekend at our house, complete with a homemade dinner, free xc skiing and a nice dinner out. They drove up to Great Glen on Saturday and enjoyed a ski there. The plan called for them to take a Snowcoach ride, but it didn't work out... turns out the coach they had planned to go up in got stuck in a ditch so maybe it worked out for the best! They followed Snowman home through the backroads of Maine and New Hampshire, over the huge frost heaves on Rt. 119, just in time (before I started without them!) for chicken cacciatore and pumpkin pie made by yours truly (I know, a random combination but yummy).

Sunday morning after a breakfast of banana bread, we headed over to Pineland. It was a beautiful day, although a bit windy. We headed, as is our custom, out into the Oak Hill loop, where the snow was really pretty nice! We made our way slowly along the trails, enjoying the woods and chatting. Snowman and I got in a bit of "up-tempo" skiing by adding on some of the additional loops of the main Oak Hill trail along the way. As we made our way back to the visitor center, we noticed it had gotten really crowded. There were a lot of people out enjoying the skiing today! Always great to see :-) Hungry from all the skiing, we had sandwiches at Foley's Bakery, and then went home to relax a bit and clean up before, yup, you guessed it, eating again!

Our dinner reservations were at Azure Cafe in Freeport. Lots of Italian this weekend! We enjoyed a long dinner complete with an shared appetizer of seafood cake, salad, chicken marsala and tiramisu and coffee for me. Yum! We attempted to walk off a bit of our dinner by wandering through LL Bean. Not sure it did much, but we did enjoy looking at the fish in the new aquarium!

Then, as if we could possibly be hungry again, we capped off the weekend with breakfast at the Broadway Deli in downtown Brunswick. It was pouring, warm (45 degrees) and foggy. Not much else to do but eat on a day like today, right?! :-)

A great weekend! Thanks for visiting guys!