Away it is!

And the winner of the where-should-I-go-for-Christmas poll is...go away somewhere cool! That is fortunate, because about five minutes after I posted that last entry (with the poll), I decided to go away. I still like that it was the most popular choice.

Guess where I've decided to go! Here's a hint:


In fact, I've already bought my plane ticket. Now here is the big question: where should I stay? I've already decided that I want to rent a cottage this time, not stay at a B&B like I usually do. I want a bit more privacy and space. So here are the top three choices right now, in the order in which they were presented to me:

1. A loft "penthouse" at the top of a historic building near town. It has a jacuzzi tub, a private widow's walk, and a private garden.



2. A mildly cute, recently built cottage west of town with a patio and shared yard.



3. An extremely cute, but smaller, cottage north of town with a fenced-in backyard, near the beach and the lighthouse where I scattered my mother's ashes last year.



Keeping in mind that the outdoor amenities will probably be useless in the wintry cold of Christmastime on an island in New England, and that 2 and 3 are about equidistant from town (where I'll want to go to get food and shop and go to church and all) and both farther than 1, and all three are about the same price, which one should I rent?

[Note: I took down the polls because (a) they're moot now and (b) they seemed to be causing the blog to take forever to load.]