This is a little late, since our second Christmas (Rockland) was eight days ago, but this pesky work thing gets in my way sometimes.

The Boxing Day snow we had early in the week was all gone, so we had another brown Christmas, but it was still nice weather to wander around Rockland. I went downtown at least once every day – I just love walking in Rockland and browsing in store windows (and occasionally buying things).

The “tree” on the left was near the public boat landing and is great. If you look closely, the entire tree is made of lobster traps, the decorations are lobster buoys, and the star is clearly an ironic statement.

On our Christmas II Friday, we waited until the afternoon to open gifts, so I was able to wander downtown in the morning. The sun was warm, but there was about a 15 m.p.h. wind that caught your attention when you came around corners. We all had lunch at the Brown Bag bakery (which I recommend), and then went home and opened gifts. It was a nice time. Mer got me an awesome gift – a Spiderman shrink figure that grows in water! Actually, she did get me one of those, but the really cool gift is to go see a one-man show where the actor does all three of the good Star Wars movies in 1 hour all by himself. That should be grand fun. The other one-man show that I have seen, MacHomer, was a tremendous show, so I have high hopes for fun in February.

I like gift giving (and gift getting, too), so it was an enjoyable two hours of good company (we don’t rush these things). The tree on the right is a bit of anticipation – it snowed on Boxing Day II as it did on the real Boxing Day. Since I find the real snow on the tree to be charming, I used a temporal anomaly to bring it into my blog about our second Christmas.

As hinted at (or directly stated) above, it did snow the next day – about 3 inches or so. It was very pretty. Mer took the opportunity of a relaxed Saturday to go get her hair done in downtown while I ate at the Rockland Cafe. The Cafe was a little greasy for my tastes, so I liked the Brown Bag better. Both locations carry whoopie pies, so feel free to check them out for comparison’s sake.

We left Sunday morning and had breakfast at Moody’s Diner, which was excellent, but we were too early to get our favorite whoopie pies. Who knew whoopie pies would not be ready by 9:00? We then swung by to see one of Mer’s friends from college who lives in Brunswick near Bowdoin College. If you are in Brunswick, check out the Little Dog Cafe in downtown – it is run by Mer’s freind’s husband. We then got on the road for home about 12:30.

So, a great time. I do love Rockland, and I do love Carleton and Leona’s house. I look forward to going back and winning more Skipbo!