We have been making the most of our days off and even sneaking in some fun on workdays. A couple of weeks ago we took the four foreign exchange students working here to a minor league baseball game in Portland. Try explaining baseball to someone who speaks little English. There isn’t even a sport to compare it to. Despite their limited understanding of the game we all had a good time. If you have ever been to a minor league game you know of all the entertainment between innings and we took them to Walmart to do their weekly shopping before the game so everyone was happy.
We had a fantastic surprise the next day as one of our “Youth Kids” and his family stopped by to say hello. We have known Andy Neipp, his parents and his siblings since Dan’s retirement and our return to Charleston. He was up this way with his wife Christy and their daughter, Hadley. We were working so the visit was much too short but it was great.
Last weekend our Workamping friends Fred and Sue came up from New Hampshire for the afternoon and showed us around Portland, their former home. They took us to places only the locals know about (I’m sure we will be making a return trip to Tony’s Donuts) as well as showing us some of the most beautiful views of the area. It was another beautiful weather day and we had a great time.
Today we went to Bath, a town that has been building ships for four hundred years according to our tour guide. It is the home of the Maine Maritime museum as well as Bath Iron Works, the shipyard where Zack’s ship, the USS Nitze, was built. We visited both and enjoyed every minute of it. While Dan had been in shipyards while serving in the Navy, neither of us had seen ships being built from the beginning before. It was fascinating. The museum was located on the grounds of a former shipbuilding yard where wooden ships were built. Many of the old buildings remain and had displays of the tools and equipment used in construction of the ships.
Until the next time!
