A Mini Vacation

This past weekend was filled with rocks, lobster, rain, yurts and fish. Let me sort this all out for you... Ryan, Aaron's brother was on a break from grad school at Notre Dame, so he came up for a visit. We decided to take him to a few places we had already been. We figured if we had been there and liked it, chances are visitors will like them too!

Saturday, we headed down to Cape Elizabeth, ME. One of Ryan's only requests was that he wanted to see the ocean. I know he has seen both the Atlantic and the Pacific, so I figured he just wanted to see it from Maine's point of view. The day was rainy and cold but we made the most of it. We all had fun climbing over the rocks and watching the waves.

The brothers trying not to get splashed.

Since we were down there we headed over to the Portland Head Light in Fort Williams Park. This is by far the most beautiful lighthouse I have seen yet. Aaron and I were there another time but none of my photos came out.

If you look close you can see an other lighthouse off in the distance to the left.

Saturday for diner, we went to the Five Islands Lobster Co. You have heard me talk about this place in previous posts. I am telling you it is such a great place! I am sure we will take lots of our visitors there. If it weren't for Sara we never would have found it. I am even telling locals about it!

Ryan and his first fresh lobster.

Sunday we packed and got ready to head up to Great Pond, ME. We stopped in Bangor on the way for a side adventure. (See previous post.)

Great Pond is a camping area owned by the Navy. There are cabins, yurts, and campsites to chose from for your camping adventure. We choose a yurt. It is a good mix of a tent and a cabin!

Our yurt included a gas grill, refrigerator, microwave, TV, VCR, electricity, bunk beds, a futon, chairs and a dining room table! Ok, so that isn't really roughing it but we loved it! It was much better than a tent. It rained all through the night most nights we were there and we never felt a drop. The only thing missing was plumbing and that was only a few yards away!

Here is the inside of the yurt. Most of it anyway. Click on picture enlarge it. You can really see the seams on this photo. Sorry!

The ceiling of the yurt had lots of natural light.

We were only there for three days and for the most part we were fishing and eating. We rented a boat from the campground and were able to keep it near our yurt for easy access. It made it nice to be able to go whenever we wanted.

Aaron caught a small mouth bass and a snapping turtle. Ryan caught a pickerel. And if you were wondering, yes they wore these hats everywhere!

I caught a bunch of blue gills. I love using a bobber and a worm mostly because I am lazy. But it can be fun catching the little ones too!

All of us around the fire the last night there. Where we of course made s'mores! Yum!

We made it home Tuesday night safe and sound. We were all really tired from our mini vacation. Isn't that funny how that happens!? It was probably the most relaxed we had all been in weeks but yet it still tuckered us out. Oh well, it was more than worth it! Hopefully Ryan had a good time and left with a good feel for Maine.