At the end of the day, looking like a zombie.
Today we stayed “home.” It’s so nice to have no firm plans for the day, to be able to stay in one place, to play with the kids without worrying about driving somewhere, no trying to figure out where to stay, just staying in one place. This morning the mosquitoes seem to have gone somewhere else. Maybe they are plotting their attack for tonight! But we are planning to play at the beach all day.
The kids seem to have a little playground kid pack and they’ve been busy planning a soccer game and other things. The kids here are older than I would like them to be for my kids, however I’m really happy they are nice kids. Probably anything my kids learn from these kids won’t harm them too much in the future. My kids are at least following the rules about coming to tell me where they are before they move on to something new. At one point, Kiki came running frantically to me saying that she needed $0.25 in order to buy a piece of candy like all of the other kids. It was pretty cute and so if course I gave her twenty five cents. It has been really fun to see her find kids to play with at campgrounds and developed her social skills with respect strangers.
Brandon took each of the kids to kayaking. Kiki went first, then Judah, then Sunshine. On their kayak adventures they jumped into the deep water, found lobster traps, and Popi got an amazing work out!
The Screamer and I played on the beach while the kids were kayaking, and met some sweet girls from Holland who travel to the United States every summer to visit their grandparents. They spoke perfect English and were so polite. And of course the Screamer charmed them. He splashed around as the tide came in. On the Maine coast, when the tide comes in or goes out the water level change is so drastic that rivers and inlets completely empty, and the entire shoreline raises and lowers many feet in a very short time. Before we knew it, the Screamer was up to his neck in water when just minutes before he had been on dry land! It was pretty interesting to watch. The water is so calm here that we are able to skip rocks across it and the kids can play without any concerns for waves carrying them off. It is all so beautiful!
After swimming, we came back to camp and chatted with our neighbors. They just came back from the local Celtic festival in Belfast, and we were inspired to go to it. So we gathered our kids from the camp rat pack, fed them some dinner, and headed to town.
Belfast, Maine, is like a living post card. It’s the stuff of travel magazines and tour books with brightly-colored boats and buildings bordering a perfect bay, surrounded by rolling hills and vintage stone buildings. It is a step back in history.
Most of the festival had closed up for the night by the time we got there, so we settled down on the hillside to watch some Celtic singers while the kids rolled down the hill and played leap frog (they are really into playing this right now). Then there were fireworks over the bay, and by the time it was all over, the kids were about to drop.
However, we couldn’t leave without visiting a local brewery, and Brandon already had his eye on one. While enjoying our snacks and drinks, we noticed some people on their boat lighting floating lanterns and letting them go! Now we have proof that what we saw last night was unlikely to be UFOs. What a perfect ending to a perfect day!
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