Labor Day Weekend

         Finishing early on Friday was a great way to start the long weekend - having nothing major planned for the weekend, we relaxed on the Friday evening and had moussaka (a new dish for me to try) for dinner. Safe to say I loved it and had seconds!

         Saturday also turned into a day for relaxing and recuperating - having a lovely lavender bath, carrying on with my cross stitch (it has the cutest design on it!) and just chilling until the evening. Our plans had completely changed from movies and sushi out with friends, to them coming over for a Chinese takeaway - we had a whole dog situation going on. We ordered a delightful take away, which came with a cute little thank you box with fortune cookies in. Using chopsticks wasn't really my thing, and I quickly reverted back to cutlery... I couldn't eat my rice one grain at a time. My Uncle found some raspberry sorbet from Hannafords, so for dessert we delved into this and the others had some s'mores ice cream as well, along with freshly picked blackberries.
          Saturday night was quite the opposite to the relaxing nature of the day. With a storm brewing over head, I was struggling to sleep anyway, and then with my mind racing about all the things that are making me anxious and homesick made for quite the disastrous mix. I started talking to my mum and then boom the internet got frazzled and I went into a state of panic, as all I wanted to do was talk to my mum about everything going on. To add into the mix I had to get up early on the Sunday, which when you know you have to get up, your body never seems to want to sleep, even though you do!

        Yesterday we got up bright and early to travel down to Portland for a reptile show. One detour and 2 hours later we got there, and went to see our friends who had a table at the show. Reptiles really aren't my thing, but I made the most of looking around at the animals, but kept a decent distance incase they jumped at me (which they didn't).
       After spending a little time at the show, we left to grab some lunch at a Portland restaurant called Silly's - we had some great food and a great time, and I would recommend it to anyone visiting Maine (especially if you are veggie, they have lots to accommodate everyone).
        Our last two stops before we left for home were Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, to have a looky see at some gluten free foods, and to pick up some general shopping. Our cheeky purchases included, cookies, tea and lemonade, sheep's cheese, kelp pasta, dried seaweed, sheep's yogurt, cinnamon and raisin bread and more that I can't remember.

        Happy Labor Day! I'm not doing anything to celebrate, but I'm glad we aren't having a bbq as we would be snorkelling in this crazy rain storm. So instead I'm relaxing and rebuilding my energy for going back to work tomorrow, with all the campus no doubt being extremely full and crazily busy!