January 12, 2013
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A Day of Pampering in Maine
For Diane & Me
Our day started with a Tai breakfast.
Elizabeth began by cutting a banana leaf into small sections.
Next she added black sticky rice pudding which she prepared the day before.
She made about a dozen of these. (She bought the ingredients at the Asian market the day before.)
While working on the banana leaf dessert, she also prepared a scrambled egg and ginger/tangerine black sticky rice.
This was delicious.
Steaming our black sticky rice pudding.
The finished product.
Another view.
It was a delicious, sweet treat.
(We did not eat the banana leaf.)
Next I took Diane to Elizabeth Nails where we were totally pampered with paraffin manicures and pedicures.
The room was warm and the atmosphere delightful, and we watched the Food Channel as our hands and feet were cared for by the talented staff.
Diane’s hand being massaged just after being removed from paraffin.
I wanted to take more pictures, but that is a bit difficult with both hands in paraffin.
It was nice to be in this very warm place on a frigid-zero-degree-day.
We almost dreaded walking outside into the cold at the end of our hour of pampering.
Our next stop was Morning Glory Health Food Store where we made a few purchases. (Photo from the Internet – obviously taken during the warm summertime.)
Diane chose Frontier Cafe for lunch which is located inside Fort Andross.
Photo and Information from the Internet
For over 300 years, Fort Andross has influenced life along the banks of the Androscoggin River.
1688: Fort Andross established, as a trading post for fur trappers and as a garrison built during King William’s war.
1715: Fort George, a stone fort, is built on the Fort Andross site to protect the settlers from Indians.
1809: Industrialist developers of the Brunswick Cotton Manufacturing Company, harnessed the Androscoggin River’s power at the Pejepscot Falls and built the first cotton mill in Maine to make yarn.
1812: The mill was purchased and enlarged by the Maine Cotton & Woolen Factory Company.
1857: The Mill is rebranded and further expanded as the Cabot Manufacturing Co. succeeding the Warumbo Manufacturing Company.
1890: Maine Street is moved to provide for further expansion of the Mill.
Internet Photo
1930: By the 1930′s Cabot Mill employed over 1,100 workers in the textile manufacturing industry.
1950: The Mill is used for textile and shoe manufacturing and becomes the Verney Mill.
1986 to Current: The Mill was purchased by Waterfront Maine, and for the past 24 years it has undergone constant renovation.
THe decor reminded me of a college restaurant, and Diane said that Bowdoin College is within walking distance.
I was delighted that we could have a table next to the Androscoggin.
More tomorrow night.
Comments (8)
Looks beautiful! I don’t think I’ve ever been to that part of Maine.
@piecedtreasures - It is a beautiful part of Maine.
My mother was born in Augusta, Maine. My grandmother worked in a shoe factory in Maine when she was a teenager. I’m not sure where, but probably in Portland, because that was where her sisters lived. Her mother had died when she was young. We were there in 1964, and visited Portland, and also Millinocket.
@ata_grandma - I don’t think I knew that about you. Would I have read that in the book?
That looks like a magnificent day — I’d love to have been with the two of you at lunch by the frozen river!
@slmret - And we would have enjoyed having you with us!
No, the book was about my dad’s family. My mom’s family lived in Maine. They were Scotch-Irish and came from N. Ireland to settle in N.B. canada.
@ata_grandma - I thought I remembered that the book is about your dad’s family. I just gave it to our granddaughter Elizabeth to read – earlier this week.