September 27, 2009

Up here, people know where to get the best deals on the freshest lobster. Advertising doesn't need to be ostentatious.

Max stayed with us last night in the motor home, sleeping on the pull-out sofa. He was plenty warm and cozy in the sheets, covered with cotton quilt and L. L. Bean Hudson Bay wool blanket. The blanket we found many years ago in a neighbor's throw-away pile! After dry cleaning, this handsome blanket has served us quite well as we have traveled to the colder climates across the country.

Well, today, Sunday, was cloudy and rainy - gloomy, actually - but Max, Tom, and Lynn had a fun "play-day" all day. Starting off with the domino game "Mexican Train," we then had an "Uno" tournament, followed by a Monopoly Marathon (Lynn once swore she would never play Monopoly ever again; well, that was before having a grandchild).

(This photo was taken at Hyde School, in Bath, Maine, where the Saturday track meet was held. This is also a 9th-12th boarding school, and has an absolutely stunning campus).

We delivered Max to his parents at 5 p.m. at the dining hall at Kents Hill, where we all shared a lovely dinner together. Meals served at the dining hall (3 times daily) are tasty and nicely varied. Faculty, families, and students all congregate at the same time, dine, and have pleasant social interaction. Students from other countries can be heard conversing in their various languages. As an adviser, Brian has dinner once a week with his "advisees", students who come to him with questions, problems, etc. Advisers keep the same advisees all four years that they are students at Kents Hill. This is a great comfort to parents who send their high school teenagers off to a boarding school, out from under their watchful care.

On the walk back to Brian-Christelle-Max's apartment, Lynn collected a beaucoup of bright red, yellow, and orange leaves. (I confess to being a leaf fanatic).