Relocation

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We have left Vermont and relocated to Los Angeles.

Everything happened so fast that we didn't even get to digest the news and we are here in Los Angeles already. We had moved from a village to a city, from east to west, from cold to warm. It sounds drastic, but we have already established a daily routine, and Wesley couldn't be happier playing in the warm weather. We will miss the autumn maple reddish mountain view, the snow covered cold mountains, and the green forest and trails. At the same time, there isn't much to complain about the constant summer.

Stay tuned, we will update more once we settle.

Maine - Portland

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We knew that most of the people would head to the beach on Sunday. In order to avoid the crowd, we decided to go downtown. We read online that parking in downtown Portland is horrendous; therefore, we went there in the early morning, and arrived the parking lot we found online for $25 all day parking. We parked the car, walked down to the wharf, signed up for the 90-minute Discover tour, then "discovered" that street parking is free on Sundays! Arrrrgg!!

Anyway....

You don't get to see a lot of big businesses in downtown Portland as most of the shops are local businesses. For this reason, the streets are full of these cute little stores that have their own character.

Maine - Ogunquit Beach

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Ian and I have been talking about going to Maine for two years, and we finally did it this summer. Since this is the first time we went to Maine, we weren't sure which beach to go to as there are too many of them.

We stopped at Ogunquit Beach on our very first day, took a stroll at the famous scenic Marginal Way which begins at the Sparhawk Motel and end at Perkin's cove.

There is this hundred year old ceder tree on the middle of the pathway that looks perfectly like it was formed by the twisting winds coming in from the sea.

We stopped at the restaurant at Perkin's cove. Since we didn't do any research on which restaurant to go to, we just random picked one with a nice view. Our only comment for this restaurant we picked is that they made no effort to make the food well. I guess when the restaurant located at a very popular touristy spot, a good chef is not required. We still enjoyed our dinner as this is our vacation time. Look at how happy Wesley was, the food was not our main concern at all.

After dinner, we stopped by the beach. We like how the Ogunquit beach is surrounded on three sides by the water, which created a quiet bay on one side. There are no waves in the way, which allowed Wesley to stand in the water to play with the wet sand.