Downtown Portland, Maine

The first morning we arrived we walked around downtown Portland. We had breakfast at Bintliff's and then tried to get Liam to nap in a nearby park. That didn't work!

We stayed two nights in the downtown Portland Regency and two nights on the Garden Inn waterfront. The Regency is newer and probably the best hotel in Portland, though we preferred the Garden Inn, not just because of what happened to us at the Regency. On the second night in the Regency we were awoken by very loud industrial noises above our head. It went on for hours and hours and it wasn't until about 3am that the technician finally arrived to fix it. We were given a 15% discount for one night and free lunch. We're not difficult customers or people who take advantage, but we do believe in some form of fairness, so because we were so tired and cranky and unimpressed with the discount, we took Micah and Tanya to the free lunch, where we each ordered appetizers, a meal and for some of us, martinis. We'd recommend either hotel in the long run.

After lunch the ladies went to Soakology to get a foot soak in a spa -- a gift certificate from Grandma Arens to Tanya which she graciously shared with her sister. Thanks Grandma Arens!

Later we went to the Portland Museum of Modern Art where Liam experienced an umbrella stroller for the first time, and loved it.