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So last Friday through last Tuesday I took a mini vacation up to Maine with the girly.  The main reason for our visit was to part-take in the wedding festivities of the girly’s best friend’s wedding (Congratulations Leya and Nathan!!!).  The wedding was a great time which was topped off with a rocking reception.  The reception band was not your typical wedding singer affair and before the night was over the hall was filled with the rocking sounds of Lynard Skynard, Metallica, Nirvanna and the like.  Let me tell you one thing, people from Maine love to throw down, get crazy and have a blast.  I managed to find their MySpace page online.  I would highly recommend giving them a shout if you need a band who can throw down!

The remainder of the trip was devoted to relaxing, handing out with the girly’s family and trying to forget about work for a few days.  One highlight of the trip was making the trek back up to freeport to hit up the LLbean store.  I just love that place! I think whenever you can keep the doors open 24/7/365 on a outdoor clothing and goods store you have to be doing something right. I found this great device that would me to listen the radio and weather alerts, have a camp lantern and charge my cell phone from solar and hand cranking power.  Being a huge advocate for renewable energy sources I think this is definately going to make my Christmas wish list.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed and my eyes out for as good if not better deals

The second big highlight of the trip was that I got to go fishing for the first time ever in Maine.  We went “striper” (AKA striped bass) fishing in the Saco River and had a great time.  I actually ended up catching the biggest fish I had ever caught while fishing so it was quite a big deal to me.  I was also really facinated how we ended up snagging our 1ft long “pogies” (AKA menhaden shad) which where then send back into the river only be gobbled up by the much larger “stripers”.

I had a great time with the girly, her dad and their good friend Rick even though the girly ended up reeling in the biggest fish of the day.  Maybe I’ll beat her next time!