Our trip to Maine and Acadia Nat'l Park

Before we headed to Maine, we stopped in New York for a couple of days to spend time with Grammy, Andrew's grandma. But then on our way back from Maine we stopped there again for a couple more days. We decided to put all of our time in New York in one big post....so stay tune for that amazing post and proceed to this one....

On our way to Maine....VERMONT! The Green Mountain State. And that it definitely was!

We stopped by the birthplace of Joseph Smith! There is always such a special spirit at any of the church history sights. This one was not different in any way!

Montpelier, VT #27!
It was absolutely beautiful! We loved the inside of it as well!

Welcome to New Hampshire. The state of no sales tax.

But no worries they get around that in other ways....they may not be a sales tax, but there is an EAT IN tax!!!!

Here is Maine! We were a bit dissapointed in this state sign! LAME!

Oooooohhhh....more ice cream.
We don't know what it is, but the ice cream in the East is so much better....you can make whatever soft serve flavor you want. This here is German Chocolate!

Augusta, ME #28. We got there too late, so we couldn't go inside, but we still loved it here.

This is us peeking inside to see what we could see.

We made it.
Acadia National Park.
We spent a couple of days here with the most amazing tour guide ever.....our brother! DAVID!!!The first night there we camped out.

Margie got this zucchini in New York on the side of the road for FREE. She saved it and gave it to David to use in some of his cooking for the camp.

In the morning, Andrew could not get out of the tent because the zipper was stuck. He looks so sad.

David works at an Oceanography camp so he showed us around to all the cool things. We got to hold a SEA CUCUMBER!

This is David holding a sea urchin.
The participants that morning got to disect sharks.

This is at Sand Beach. The only natural sand beach in the park. All the other sand beaches have the sand brought in.

Andrew is a SEAWEED FOOT MONSTER!!!
One of David's favorite things to do is to look in tide pools. It soon became one of our favorite things too. Once we knew what we were looking for.

Ahhh....picking blueberries. That was so much fun! They were EVERYWHERE. David will do whatever it takes to get his hands on some blueberries!Hmmm....Right off the bush into your mouth! LOVE IT!

What a great thing to do as brother and sister...picking blueberries.

Then for the LOBSTER dinner. This was Margie's first experience at lobster and it definitely will not be her last. Thanks David for such an awesome treat!

It was kinda sad that the face was still attached....

David let us cook in his kitchen. What an honor.

This is David in action.

Look Margie made a new friend.


Day two in the park started with the sunrise. We went up to Cadillac Mountain, which is the first place that sees the sun in the United States. BEAUTIFUL!

After the sunrise, Andrew and Margie went to eat breakfast at this cute little restaurant while David went and prepared breakfast for his little campers.

We also went on a nice stroll on the shore. It was so peaceful and gorgeous.

Andrew really wanted to get up on the rock...and he did!
We went to the shark museum in Bar Harbor. This is a jaw bone of a Right Whale. It was really big.
Then we picked up David and headed out to a light house. We have fallen in love with light houses. While we were hiking on these rocks, Margie broke her flip flop. She hiked barefoot for a little bit and then she wore Andrew's shoes till we got back to the car.
There is the light house. We love it.
One of our favorite pictures of David.
We then went to another place and looked around in the tide pools. David found a little crab.
So did Andrew...but his was dead. We named it little Crabby. They were friends.
Next stop...the amazing gardens. Thula Gardens.

Then Andrew and I went and picked some more blueberries, while David went and ran some errands for the camp.

When we met back up we went to our last stop in Acadia National Park. Sea Anemone

Cave. You can only get to it during low tide. But it was something amazing! We were very glad we stopped in to see the beauty. This is one of David's favorite places.

It was really sad to have to say good-bye to such a beautiful part of the country. We can definitely see why David loves to go up there each summer. If only we could go every summer, we would.