Despite being at at a fun place – Fun-O-Rama in York, Maine – we were drained of energy, sweating like sweat hogs, and in urgent need of liquid refreshment.
That’s because our Summer 2013 3M adventure fell on day three of a seven day heat wave that battered New England wit 90+ temperatures and high humidity.
Yucky, sticky. Icky.
Fun-O-Rama is an old fashioned place… that includes no air conditioning. It features an unusual wide open wooden front – built at the turn of the last century – that overlooks Short Sands. The sights, sounds, bathing suit wearing sunbathers and temperatures all come pouring in.
We gave it our best shot, playing a wide variety of retro eighties arcade games and some golden oldies from the Fifties or Sixties that included:
- Ms. Pac Man
- Pinball
- knock out the teeth
- punch the stomach
- air hockey
- skee ball
- dance revolution
- arm wrestling
We even played nine holes of indoor miniature golf:
As we neared midday, we were running out of steam. We didn’t even care about cashing in the tickets that had been won for prizes!
We ran into a famous TV star at Fun-O-Rama, so that was cool (especially for me):
I bought icey drinks, you let me take your picture, then we climbed in the Youk and headed back to the beach house where Grammy, Ainsley, Molly, Jack and Nicole (“Mom” to you Clickman 3M’rs) were eating lunch.
Within 15 minutes we were in AC at the beach house. It was so hot Grammy had to cool things down… there was no sea breeze blowing through, just a stifling land breeze providing no relief.
After a bit of refreshment and sun lotion applications, we hit the beach for the hopefully cooler water temperatures and serious boogie boarding. Good news on the first hope: the water temps were a rare and remarkable 75 degrees plus! Although this is cold to most people, to us true ocean lovers, it was cool but also much warmer than normal.
As far as the second hope – boogie boarding – well, that didn’t pan out. The ocean was like a lake with no waves. Also VERY unusual.
Ahhhh, that feels better!
