Summers End

The kids start back to school next week and I cant believe how fast the summer flew by us. It’s amazing to me how time just runs together some times. Rich and I wanted to take the kids on a camping trip and we had a couple planned this summer. One we canceled due to the weather so last weekend was our last chance. Friday afternoon we headed out and started our trip to Acadia National Park on the Maine coast. We got a later start than we wanted but besides a couple of traffic backups the drive wasnt too bad. It took us a good 5 1/2 hours to get there so it was dark when we set up.

Sometime in the early morning it started rain and I was really hoping it was just passing through. We climbed out of the tent somewhere around 8 and the rain had slowed to a drizzle so we started breakfast. By the time we finished breakfast it was raining steadily everyone was getting wet and cold so we hopped into the car and cruised around the island. We stopped at this really cute lighthouse where a Coast Guard family currently resides:

Luckily by lunch time the sun came out and we had a wonderful day. We visited Thunder Hole but we arrive right at high tide and the day was calm so we didn’t get to see any huge wave explosions but it was very exciting to watch. After that we went onto Otter point. This I believe was by far everyone’s favorite part of the trip. While we didn’t see any otters we did see tons of tide pools. They were a lot of fun to look into. Some had barnacles, all had plant life but a couple even had baby fish. One in particular was about two inches long and had a stripe down the middle of it’s back that was almost glowing blue.

Here is Gabi at Otter Point showing off a crab shell she found:

Here are Miranda and Payton and one of Rich and I:

Sunday The day was just as beautiful and the ride home was smooth. The next time we head up to Acadia we are going to take a longer vacation, two days are just not enough!