We arrived in Ogunquit with no issues late Thursday afternoon, checked-in, and then went exploring. We got our grub on at a cute little Italian cafe called Caffe Prego. Mmmmmm panini and sorbetto, YUM! It was so nice just to sit, relax, and not be on any sort of time line.
Over the course of our meal, we noticed that the knick-knack store across the street had a cat. Not just any cat, a GIANT rag doll cat. The cat had free reign of the area, going in and out of the store as it pleased. Now, if you know Jake, you know that he love, love, LOVES animals. He wanted to run across the street at start playing with it. At one point the cat (whom Jake has named Mau-Mau, cat-cat in Canto) was just laying in the middle of the side street next to the house. The guys walking back from the beach knelt down to pet the cat. My reaction was "what are those guys picking up? Are they picking up garbage? Oh wait, there's a tail. OOOH it's the cat!" Now, if you know Jake, you know that he love, love, LOVES animals. He wanted to run across the street at start playing with it.
After finishing up our panini's (and sorbetto and cappacino), we took a walk on the beach. We started from the Norseman Resort at the South end of the beach. The weather couldn't have been more perfect; high 70's with a warm breeze. I didn't think that we would walk far. Just a short walk, take some pictures, and then turn around and walk back to our hotel. Boy was I in for a surprise. Once we were started, Jake decided that he wanted to see the houses at the end of the beach. I don't think he had any reference to how far away the houses were (3 miles!). So we kept walking, and walking, and walking.
When we arrived at the first house, he wanted to see them all. "We're here, might as well see all of them." And so we walked some more. Right before the very end (where it looked liked you couldn't walk any further due to a cliff), we turned around to make the return trek. Let me tell you, after walking that far in flip flops on a hard beach, my foot was beginning to hurt. We made it a little over two-thirds of the way back when we decided we wanted to see what was on the other side of the sand dunes. "Hey look, there's a road, let's follow it back."
Oh boy, at first we started doubting our choice, but we pushed on and ended up on the main drag, which was our goal. Along the way we over heard a couple having a fight in their jeep, walked past a cop (who we speculate drove passed us multiple times later in the night), stopped by a small market to pick up water, cheese, and crackers. It started to get dark on us pretty quickly, but we finally made it back to our room and just in time for the finale of Fringe!
This was our "walk":
(Jake's actually kissing my head as I'm trying to take this picture.)
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