For the first week, we stayed at his grandma's place in Bath, ME. She's AWESOME. She even has this cat, Jerew? Juroooo? sp?... Anyways, that cat is a B-R-A-T. She doesn't like anyone. She doesn't really play. She hisses when you try to pet her. She doesn't eat Pop Rocks when you want her to... the only good thing she does is wait by the door for you to come home... but once you get there, she goes off and does her own thing. Ugh. Also, it rained about every other day. On the days that it didn't rain, it was super nice weather. They say it's the worst summer they've had in years!.. But it sure is beautiful over there!
And we did lots of fun things!
we went kayaking and saw a beaver dam!...
we went to the beach a lot and we made the ULTIMATE SAND CASTLE and watched until it got washed away!...
and we went golfing! (my first time!... 9 holes later and whatdya know? I LOVE GOLF!) I'm really not very good yet, but hey, that's what can be expected! Later in the week we also went to the driving range... and I got a golfing glove! :)
On Thursday, Ian and I went with Grammy on the bus with the seniors on their trip to the Christmas Tree Shops, which is a store in Portland. It was like a field trip for the senior citizens! They have a really good program for the seniors.. stuff to do almost every day! (way cool!) And after the CTSs we went to some buffet place and ate... From there, Ian's cousin Kate (who lives in Portland) picked us up and we stayed in Portland and spent a couple days with her & her boyfriend Phil. We walked around downtown Portland.. there's a bunch of little shops where everything is way overpriced. Cute, though. Then we went to the Portland Head Light! There was a little museum inside so we went in and looked around a little bit.. And of course it was right on the water, so there was a GORGEOUS view! (All of Maine is SO pretty though...)
That night we went to Seadog's? for dinner and to the movies where we saw The Proposal (which I thought was really good!)... We stayed at Kate/Phil's apartment that night, and just kinda hung out the next day and then we went back to Bath.
Saturday we spent at the Popham Beach, (Ian's family has a cottage right on the beach... a 2 minute walk and you're at the water!) That night we went to a wedding reception for a girl that Ian's family knew.. We hung out there for like.. an hour? and ate the best cheesecake I've ever had in my life!!! There was music and dancing and everyone was having a great time!.. Except that there are tons of mosquitoes and they SUCK.. (haha)
(there's Ian and I, and Kate and Phil dancing.. you can kind of see Ian's aunt Ginny and Uncle Brian behind K & P)
On Sunday, we went to Eleanor's cottage for a little birthday party. (Eleanor is one of Grammy's friends since grade school!) It was a little shared party for E and a couple other people who had birthdays. We ate some "lobstah", clams, and lots of other things, and we even got rained on a little! I'm really not a big fan of shellfish, so I cracked open my lobster, ate a couple bites, and Ian ate the rest for me :) but cracking it open to get the meat out is pretty fun!
(Grammy, Ian, Eleanor)
Monday morning Ian, Grammy, and I moved down to the cottage at Popham to spend the rest of the week there. It was Ian's birthday! He ran the 17 miles from Bath to the cottage in Popham! It took him 2 hours and 24 mins!!! (WOW! Good job Ian!) If it was MY birthday (which btw, is coming up! Sept 5th!) I would NOT want to run 17 miles. I wouldn't even want to run 1 mile! But he did it! And got a nice big blister on the bottom of his foot to show for it! Grammy and I drove and met him at the cottage. After a few hours we went back to Bath and went to dinner at Maxwells with Brian and Ginny for Ian's birthday. We had ice cream cake and presents back at Grammy's after, then went back to Popham.
(we couldn't find the candles, so he just pretended to blow them out!)
We had really good weather pretty much the whole 2nd week. We spent a lot of time at the beach, of course! Got a lot of reading done and got little burnt. AND! I HATE HORSEFLIES. They're the most ridiculous and annoying little pests!!! We also went to Fort Popham, which was just a fort they used during a few wars (Civil War, WWI, WWII). It really only saw minor action, but its cool none-the-less!
(On the other side of the wall is ocean! There were lots of "windows" where they would've shot cannons through and stuff... interesting!)
Ian's mom flew in on Wednesday, and we were way excited to have her come! She stayed down at the cottage with us, and Grammy moved back up to Bath. The rest of the trip was just a whole lot of relaxing. We went out to eat a few times, and hung out on the beach a lot... Ian and I golfed another 9 holes on Thursday.. and a bunch of Ian's parents' friends came over on Saturday for lobsters and hanging out.. then Ian and I had a bonfire Saturday night... lots of things! Then on Sunday, the trip sadly came to an end. :( None of us really wanted to leave, but it was time to come back to the real world! (UGH!) But the trip was really fun and I LOVE MAINE! :)
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