Camping in Maine...

Kyle & his mom on the swing outside the cabin (Oh-Rosie too)

Ok, here is our Camping Recap:

We both had Friday off and since Kyle's mom had to work and she was going away with us, we spent the morning cleaning the condo vacuuming, washing floors, dusting, doing laundry, and packing for our trip. We left the condo around 2pm. We were trying to avoid the traffic, but seemed to run into it anyway. We arrived at Kyle's mothers house around 3:30pm. It should have only taken about an hour. Kyle's mother had just got home from work. We gathered her camping gear and were on our way by about 4:30pm. On our drive up we figured we would stop in Kittery, ME for dinner. Kittery is a popular area because they have outlet stores. We had dinner at the Weathervane, a seafood chain restaurant in the southern Maine & New Hampshire seacoast area. http://www.weathervaneseafoods.com/


Below is a shot of the bunk bed inside the cabin.

We left the restaurant and continued our drive arriving in Saco, ME around 7:30pm. We unpacked, settled in for a bit and read for a little while before going to sleep. Yes, there was electricity in the cabin, which we weren't aware of. We thought we'd be reading by candle light or flashlight. We did not sleep all that well. Kyle awoke first at 6:00pm. The beds were extremely uncomfortable! It was still dark out. He set up for breakfast. We had Caitlin's muffins (banana nut), instant oatmeal and coffee (Moriah we bought a french press & it was very handy during our trip.) We then decided to drive north along the coast up to Camden, ME. We had both heard a lot of great things about Camden but had never been. The movie "In the Bedroom" was filmed there and we both remember the scenery being beautiful.

The ride to Camden was nice. It was interesting seeing the coast, towns of Bath, Darmassocata, Rockport on our way to Camden. What a beautiful town Camden is.

A view of beautiful Camden from MT. Battie

We arrived to Camden around noon. There was a craft fair going on. Since we had a small breakfast we decided to have lunch first. We choose a deli style restaurant on the water. We ordered sandwiches, ate and got back out and began exploring. One little note- Eric you will like this. Kyle had his Ohio State sweatshirt on and an older gentleman noticed this and started saying, "OH". We finally figured out he was referring to the Ohio State sweatshirt. He came over and told of someone in Columbus, who had done his basement over to look like the stadium. Apparently you can see it on Utube!

Below is a pretty bridge of flowers in Camden

We first walked though the craft fair area looking over various items, some locally made some from different areas of the country. We continued exploring the downtown and shops and came across a "bridge of flowers." We strolled across it and headed back to the van. We took a little drive and decided to drive up one of the hills that had a view of downtown and the water. Camden is surrounded by hills. We drove up Mount Battie. What a view. You could see the village of Camden, the islands surrounding the town, part of Acadia National park http://www.nps.gov/acad/, which I have been dying to take Caitlin to visit. As we walked around up top, we met other people with dogs. One couple was from PA, their dog was named Boo. What a beautiful Golden Retriever. We also met a dog from Maine that was named Keeper. Her owner was a lobster man hence the name. We enjoyed the view for a little while longer and headed down and back to camp.

Here we are on top of Mt. Battie. Words can't express how breathtaking this view is.

We stopped in Freeport, ME on our way home. For those of you that may or may not know, this is the headquarters of LL Bean. We stopped in LL Bean and walked around. We also visited another outlet store(there are lots of outlet stores in the downtown). We had dinner at Gritty McDuffs http://www.grittys.com/ in Freeport and drove back to camp for a campfire and good night.




The following morning we all awoke about 8am and headed over to breakfast in the campground at Merry Moose. Caitlin and Kyle's mom had blueberry pancakes and Kyle had strawberry pancakes. Breakfast was good. Then took Rosie's annual Halloween photo. We will decide and publish soon not to spoil the surprise for everyone. Rosie was a good dog during her photo shoot. After this we checked out and headed home.



This post would not be complete if I didn't post pictures of the gigantic pancakes we had for breakfast at the "Merry Moose" on our last morning at the campground. I had the blueberry pancakes.

Notice how big this pancake is? It takes up the entire plate!







Ok, below is Kyle's strawberry pancakes, which I wasn't sure I was going to like. They were really good. I'm lucky my hubby is a good sharer!

Yummarooskies!

What vacation is complete without good food and good company ? :)

We have lots more pics from out trip. Let us know if you want to see more and we'll email them separately!