My mom and grandma had made a yummy birthday lunch. We ate and opened presents, then we played in the water. Here are a few picts! I know this is a gross pic, but the water was really cold, we were a little chicken to get in and if we had the camera, the boys wouldn't throw us in! It is always hard for my to dive right in though, the lake is 80 ft deep right off our dock, yeah, that is scary, plus it takes me a bit to get over the swimming with wildlife, and eels thing, my parents would tell you some pretty embarrassing stories from when I was younger and too scared to get in, but we will save those for another time!
The Sunset was beautiful that night, here are a few pictures, but a big warning, I love the Maine Sunsets, so there will be plenty pictures of sunsets! Sorry some of the pics are dark, I haven't had time to lighten them up.
The first Sunday we were there was 4th of July. There is a little town about 40 minutes from our camp that we LOVE to go to on the 4th. They have a town party there is music craft booths, yummy food and beautiful weather. There is a lake that the town is built around. For the 4th people go out on the lake in their boats and crowd around the edges of the lake to watch. They take a boat out into the middle of the lake and set off the fireworks, they reflect off the water and are so pretty. I didn't get any pictures, I forgot my camera at the house, but believe be, it was beautiful and so fun! The weather was great!
The next day was my brothers last day before he went back to school so we went and hiked. The mountain we hiked is the one that is in the sunset pictures. Here is a play by play of our hike, it was pretty hot and took us about 4 or 5 hours from start to end, but this isn't a nice easy hike!
The next day we went to Bar Harbor Maine! We ate yummy food and had fun walking in the shops. We went and stuck our feet in the Atlantic Ocean. Marc called his parents because they were in San Diego playing at the beach and we thought it was pretty funny they were at the Pacific Ocean while we were at the Atlantic Ocean on the other side of the country! Here we are with the ocean in the back ground eating our delicious ice cream. We went through blueberry withdrawals after that trip!
On the drive home we found an LL Bean outlet and couldn't pass it up! They had great deals and we each got some fun stuff! We decided we were going to stop at a fun ice cream place that we love on the way back. We had driven in two different cars, so my brother and sister came with us. We were a little surprised when we pulled up and my parents and grandma were there too. They stopped at the store on the way back and we went on ahead. As we were driving we saw a moose running along the side of the road. It got scared back into the woods but we sat and watched it for awhile.
We always have a work day at camp. Since so many families share it we all pitch in when we are there it make it look great! This last year a new cabin was finished on our land. There were a bunch of trees that had to be cleared so that the cabin could be built. My parents rented a wood chipper and we spent 8 hours clearing trees and plants around the camp. It was so hot that day! We took tons of water brakes and a lunch break but we were beat, and dirty! But since we were right by the lake, we jumped in clothes an all and that was the BEST part of the day! Here we are getting our much needed swim after working all day!
We had so much fun going out at night looking for moose in the boat and showing Marc around camp. Here are a few more pics of how we spent the evenings. The first pic is a loon that swam right by us. There was also a beaver that would swim around the dock at about the same time. It was so fun!
Here are a few more sunset pics and some of us walking across the train tracks. The train used to be how our family got into camp. They would stop and have to carry their bags all the way to camp. The train still goes through camp, but it doesn't stop anymore. The bridge is super scary, if you are like me and scared of heights! I made Marc hold my hand the whole way! I was so scared I would fall!
