Today is a driving day and we hope you make it all the way to Maine with a little daylight left so we can play before bed. We took the scenic route up through Vermont and New Hampshire and drove through Maine to the coast. It was an uneventful trip except for many bathroom stops and Brandon napped to catch up on much needed sleep. The landscape is so beautiful out here. There is water everywhere, draw bridges, and people enjoying the Sun. The closer to the coast we came, more and more coniferous trees were mixed with into the deciduous forest in a jungle of wetland greenery.
We found a camp site on the beach just south of the Maine border in New Hampshire. The beach was at a place where the river met the ocean, and the kids were able to play safely without worrying about large waves. The water was warm there, and the kids found little crabs crawling around on the shores, nibbling at their toes. Battered planks stock out into the water, showing that the shore was not always as peaceful as it now appears. We let the kids play and made sausage for dinner and then we went for a walk in the moonlight. As we walked we noticed odd lights in the sky heading out towards the sea. At first there was only one of them, but as we walked, we saw more and more until there were six or seven of them floating out over the water. We thought that they were probably some kind of floating paper balloon because over the water the flame went out, and each disappeared altogether. They were quite fun to watch, very different from anything we would be allowed to have in California. It is so wet here that even if one of the balloons fell to the ground, a fire would not start. We know from experience with difficulty starting campfires that wildfires are NOT a threat around here. It takes many matches and a lot of people to get the tiniest flame burning into a fire!
The kids fell asleep to the sound of the waves and the hope of playing on the beach in the morning.
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