Not that I didn't believe people when they told me how great Maine was, but I don't know; it's hard to believe until you've seen it for yourself. I mean it's this nondescript state that just sits up on its own, minding it's own business, and not usually demanding a lot of attention. But I'll tell you what, I get it now. Maine is pretty spectacular! Or at least the parts of it that we saw are! I'm sure it helped that we made our first experience with Maine at Arcadia National Park. Our main purpose for hitting Maine was the marathon I was planning on running - but I'm still working up the energy to talk about that so you'll have to wait a bit longer for my marathon update. For now let me share some of the more relaxing, enjoyable parts of our trip.
It always adds a bit more to a vacation when you can go with friends and stay in a beautiful house instead of cramming yourself into a hotel room. It was fun to have some extra time with our great friends the Kyle's (of whom, Amy would be running the maraton as well). With kids and life it always seems like most our visits with friends are short lived.This time they were stuck with us for two days! Yay!
We spent some time in Bar Harbor enjoying the quaint little town,
hanging out at the house
and my favorite part, walking along the sand bar as the tide went out. We tried to make it to the island on the other side, but just couldn't get our kids ourselves to hang on that long.
The girls absolutely loved it. Collecting sea shells, running along the sand, and stepping in puddles. It's kid paradise!
Nouvelle left with an overdose of her daily intake of sodium along with an extra helping of grit; but it was just too fun to watch her fascination with the salty sand.
Cadence LOVED finding cool and different shells and putting them in her bucket.
Sage just wanted to run and run and run.
It was a beautiful time in Bar Harbor. Wonderful enough to make me want to go back and tack on at least one extra day to the trip.
Snow shoeing in winter? Anyone up for it?
Yeah, Maine is kind of a big deal. Loved the trip, I totally want to go snow shoeing!!!!!
Posted by: Amy Kyle | October 20, 2011 at 08:42 PM
I looooooooooove Maine!!! We've been a couple of times up to Ogunquit and Portland, and it's just gorgeous. We thought about moving there after Brian's graduation because we loved it so much. (But then we realized there aren't too many major airports, and that's just a crazy long way to visit home in California! Not to mention that we visited in the middle of summer and I don't think we're quite prepared for the winters there!) I think we'll just make it a frequent vacation destination.
Sounds like the marathon was not so great?? Sorry! Hope you're doing/feeling okay. Call me if I can help with anything!
Posted by: Jacy | October 20, 2011 at 04:36 PM
Such a cute family! Love seeing the girls. Beautiful weather. Glad you have some good memories aside from the Marathon. I'm jealous... I've been trying to get to Acadia Nat. Park for 27 years!
Posted by: Grandmere | October 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM