It's amazing how exhausting two days can be when they are emotionally charged.

The ceremony was beautiful and amazing. There was, predictably, a lot of patriotic propoganda, but all for good. What partisanship there was during the actual ceremony was limited to appeals for more boat-building in Maine. Which is good: my grandfather was always very nonpartisan, it would have seriously annoyed me if things had gone off in that direction.

and, you know, those boats are really big. And we got a tour, which was amazing (and made me confirm--not that I ever doubted this--that I could not live on a ship. Ever). It was perfect weather, 60 degrees and sunny, which in maine is a veritable miracle.

Off to work--maybe more later.
- posted by Heidi @ 8:04 AM