How did this happen?

So, today I turned 31 years old. I don't know how it happened. Where did the years go? I remember when I thought 30 was a long way off. I am hoping 61 doesn't come as fast! Since Aaron had yesterday off (because he got a four day weekend) we decided to celebrate The Day-Before-My-Birthday Day! It sounds weird, I know, but hey this is me we are talking about!

So, we got up bright an earlier to head out to Reid State Park. We read on weather.com that the storms were rolling in early afternoon. We wanted to get to the park and enjoy what nice weather we could. Unlike many of the other Maine 'beaches' we had found, this one actually had sand! As soon as got there the weather started to turn on us. We ended up eating our Subway inside the truck so we wouldn't blow away. But we were so close, we couldn't leave without sticking our feet in the sand. Sticking my toes in the sand was cold and wet! Stupid me wanted a picture taken in front of the water. Of course I wasn't looking behind me and got nailed by a wave. My feet were freezing! I really felt like I had stuck my feet in a bunch of snow! Not wanting to get rained on we left the park.

See how gloomy it was out?

I bet not five minutes later the sun came out and things started to warm up. There wasn't a drop of rain that fell. We decided not to waste the drive out to Georgetown/Arrowsic, so we headed down to Squirrel Point Lighthouse. You couldn't see the lighthouse from the road. We actually hiked back in quite a ways to see it. At the end of the trail you could see the lighthouse far off in the distance. We were up for an adventure so we walked through wet sand, hiked over rocks, and slipped on seaweed to get closer. Just when it looked like we had gotten as close as we were going to get, Aaron tells me to wait and climbs up over a giant rock and disappears. He found a trail that will take us the rest of the way to the lighthouse. It turns out in the beginning of the trail we took a wrong turn and there was an easier trail that would have lead us all the way to the lighthouse.

This happens to us a lot! We always seem to take the harder route. But I kept telling Aaron all day that is wouldn't have been quite the adventure had we taken the easy trail. It was so much fun trying to maneuver our way to the lighthouse!

This is where the trail ended that we took. You can see the lighthouse far off in the distance.

Here is a closer photo of the lighthouse. I took this photo from the same place as the one above. Aaron, as my birthday gift, got me a great telephoto lens for my camera! I am so excited! Now I can take pictures of just about anything.

Our feet in the muck! It was the softest sand/mud I have ever felt. I told Aaron some ladies would probably pay good money at a spa to get covered with the muck we were walking through.

We made it! There was also a creepy house there. You can tell no one lives there but there was cereal on the table and a napkin. I wondered it they put it there to scare people. I didn't want to find out! I told Aaron I wasn't looking in the windows again because I didn't want to see a face looking back at me!

Later in the afternoon we decided to go to the movies. Going to the movies in the afternoon on a Tuesday is great! We were the only ones in the whole theater. We were able to laugh as loud as we wanted watching Baby Mama. It really liked the movie!

To end the day Aaron made me filet mignon, corn on the cob and shrimp skewers. Yummy! I had a great birthday this year. This year was the first time in two years that Aaron and I got to spend both our birthdays together. Deployment stinks like that! I can't wait to see what the 31st chapter of my life has in store for me.