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Aunt Sigh and I went to Portland to the Ace Hardware on Monday and then to the Old Port to just sort of hang around, and I really don't want to forget the whole day. I know we checked out South Freeport and Delia Parker Winslow Memorial Campground, but I can't recall what we did before that in the morning.
Before we went into Ace we stopped at the drum shop there at Union Station Plaze: she had to look at almost everything, she has always wanted to be a drummer when she was younger. Almost bought some zils there (she has taken bellydance and is thinking about taking it back up) but they were very plain and quite heavy seeming.
She's the same in a hardware store as anyplace else - I thought she might be bored, but she wanted to look at everything, she nearly bought a toilet seat for Eor on a whim, and exclaimed in great delight over a pink hammer that was on the counter. :)
Then I drove over to the Old Port and as I was trying to find a place to park on Commercial Street she asked if this was really where I wanted to go, because it looked kind of boring. I said "Boring? You think so? Well, I just want to look at this one garden, I want to see how it's doing." Sure enough, as soon as she went around the corner from Three Dollar Dewey's and saw the tiny garden hidden in between the buildings, and then we wandered around the corner into Wharf Street she was hooked. :)
We had to wander slowly (she'd hurt her ankle on the path at the house in Rockland on Saturday and it still wasn't quite up to a lot, the cobbles were a little difficult, but she didn't complain about that at all, she loved the cobbles) and went through the new Cool As A Moose anex and up their stairs, and she almost bought a pair of pyjama pants for me - black watch with the Cool As A Moose logo - but after we looked through the whole lot I decided that there were no pyjama pants that I thought would actually be comfortable for me - even the extra large looked as though they were too small. :( So we wandered on, up Fore, observed the 'art' which the local shop owners are trying to get rid of (the 'razor blades sticking up out of the ground' which is supposed to represent waves) and then sat on a bench in front of the Regency and looked at the dolphin statue, the patterned cobbles, and their outdoor cafe (very cute, I think it's called something like The Garden Shed, because they just put a little shed over there to stage things in, and a line of tables with umbrellas) and then walked through the Regency, used their bathroom, went down to the spa and asked the price on massages, then fled (omg something like $75 for 50 min.??) and went to Seimper Mas, where she bought me a pashmina (shawl - and a fake one, really, or it wouldn't be so cheap, but I love the colors - mustard yellow, mossy green, and black, with paisleys :)) and some zils, and wanted to buy me several other things, but I told her I didn't need the clinky belt thingy for belly dancing as I have a chainmail skirt already. :)
Good fun. :)
Before we went into Ace we stopped at the drum shop there at Union Station Plaze: she had to look at almost everything, she has always wanted to be a drummer when she was younger. Almost bought some zils there (she has taken bellydance and is thinking about taking it back up) but they were very plain and quite heavy seeming.
She's the same in a hardware store as anyplace else - I thought she might be bored, but she wanted to look at everything, she nearly bought a toilet seat for Eor on a whim, and exclaimed in great delight over a pink hammer that was on the counter. :)
Then I drove over to the Old Port and as I was trying to find a place to park on Commercial Street she asked if this was really where I wanted to go, because it looked kind of boring. I said "Boring? You think so? Well, I just want to look at this one garden, I want to see how it's doing." Sure enough, as soon as she went around the corner from Three Dollar Dewey's and saw the tiny garden hidden in between the buildings, and then we wandered around the corner into Wharf Street she was hooked. :)
We had to wander slowly (she'd hurt her ankle on the path at the house in Rockland on Saturday and it still wasn't quite up to a lot, the cobbles were a little difficult, but she didn't complain about that at all, she loved the cobbles) and went through the new Cool As A Moose anex and up their stairs, and she almost bought a pair of pyjama pants for me - black watch with the Cool As A Moose logo - but after we looked through the whole lot I decided that there were no pyjama pants that I thought would actually be comfortable for me - even the extra large looked as though they were too small. :( So we wandered on, up Fore, observed the 'art' which the local shop owners are trying to get rid of (the 'razor blades sticking up out of the ground' which is supposed to represent waves) and then sat on a bench in front of the Regency and looked at the dolphin statue, the patterned cobbles, and their outdoor cafe (very cute, I think it's called something like The Garden Shed, because they just put a little shed over there to stage things in, and a line of tables with umbrellas) and then walked through the Regency, used their bathroom, went down to the spa and asked the price on massages, then fled (omg something like $75 for 50 min.??) and went to Seimper Mas, where she bought me a pashmina (shawl - and a fake one, really, or it wouldn't be so cheap, but I love the colors - mustard yellow, mossy green, and black, with paisleys :)) and some zils, and wanted to buy me several other things, but I told her I didn't need the clinky belt thingy for belly dancing as I have a chainmail skirt already. :)
Good fun. :)
