Dec 17 2007
Christmas Shopping at L.L. Bean
One of the great Maine traditions in the winter is to go Christmas shopping at Freeport’s L.L. Bean flagship store. The store is open 24 x 7, 365 days a year, but during the Christmas shopping season, you probably don’t want to be anywhere near the place during daylight hours. Even at 8:30 PM on a frigid Saturday night, She and I had to park in the back parking lot and walk a few minutes to get to the store.
I tried to snap some pictures outside, but they didn’t come out very well. If I go up to Freeport again, I’ll bring my tripod so the exposure times can be long enough to actually capture some detail. I included a few of the not so terrible outdoor pics on the photoset. The indoor ones, like this gingerbread cookie display, and the gingerbread L.L. Bean store complex came out much better. If you get a chance to head up to Freeport during the Christmas shopping season, and you have the patience to shop in a crowd, L.L. Bean is an experience not to be missed.