Showing posts with label vacations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacations. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Best $29 investment









In this picture you can only see Carter's leg sticking up!




Riding the inflatable boat in on the waves is the most fun Trey and Allie have had in the ocean. They, along with Carter, enjoyed 2 days of good waves with the boat. After watching Carter get pummeled over and over by waves that crashed over his head, they finally put Carter in the boat while Trey and Allie would fight the waves pulling it out and then hop in and let the waves take them in. I think it was just as entertaining for us to watch them. Sometimes they would get an easy ride in, other times they would barely escape being flipped over and ride a powerful wave all the way in. (afterwards you would here a high pitched "whooooooo" that was Trey) The best entertainment was of course when a wave would catch them just right and capsize them. The only two bummers were that the raft had a hole in it at the end of each day and Trey and Carter knocked heads HARD during one toss over. Trey had a huge goose egg on the side of his head. But he said it was worth it.

Allen helped the little kids enjoy the waves closer in to the beach. They said it was better that a ride at an amusement park.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Maine in the fall


Portland Lighthouse


Belted cows
About to sail in the Rockland Harbour

One of the B&B's we stayed in


David and I love the fall. Humidity is gone, cool evenings, and David would add that it's football season (whatever). We have always wanted to visit Maine in the fall. We kicked around the idea a few months ago and then the idea died. Then about a month ago David says "let's go to Maine". So, after a whirlwind of securing babysitting (thanks grammy and grandpa) and buying tickets, we take off for the southern coast of Maine. We flew into Boston and stopped in the first town in Maine: Kittery. Over the next few day we made our way through the picturesque towns of York, Ogunquit, Kennybunkport, Rockland, Camden, and Bucksport. Maine is beautiful. The port towns are quaint, the people are nice and the scenery puts a smile on your face. We loved this trip and definetely want to go back and visit a little more northern Maine too.