Road Trip Map: Acadia National Park, ME

We went on a bit of a road trip in the van. 1400 miles.

July 9th          Nicks Lake B Loop, Adirondacks NY
July 10 - 11    Lake Harris, Adirondacks NY
July 12th        Wildwood Rest Area near Kinsman Notch NH
July 13th        Canon Aerial Tramway, Mt. Blue State Park, Weld ME
July 14th        Mt Blue SP, Weld ME
July 15 - 17    Schoodic Point, Acadia SP ME
July 18 - 19    Lamoine State Park, ME
July 20 - 22    Moose Tours, Moose Brook State Park, Gorham NH
July 23           Cabot Creamery Cheese Factory Tour, New Discovery SP, VT
Jul 24             Ben and Jerry Factory Tour, Vermont Teddy Factory Tour,
                      Lake Champlain Ferry, Nicks Lake Adirondacks, NY
July 25           Sakana Ya Sushi, Syracuse, and home by 4pm.

We had intended to make some other stops -- various caverns and amusement parks along the way, but the weather and timing did not allow. Luckily the campgrounds had swimming beaches, and fishing/crabbing opportunities to make up for it.

My favorite part of the trip was not Acadia itself, due to lots of traffic and tourists. I was surprised to enjoy Moose Brook State Park and Waterbury Vermont. Both places were loaded with the friendliest people and the best summer weather. No bugs. Clean mountain air. May need to go back there someday. 

Celebrating Early

We are not sure we will be in town or not, so we celebrated her birthday early.

Road Trip Map: Lake Champlain Trip Plan

We are beginning to plan for our next road/camping trip. We are expecting to hit some interesting spots along the way.

• Nick's Lake
• Enchanted Water Safari
• Meacham Lake
• Tupper Lake for July 4th Fireworks 
• A Ferry Ride across Lake Champlain
• camp at Franconia Notch State Park, go on an aerial tram ride.
• visit Santa's (summer) Village. Get on some rides. 
• explore the Lost River and Boulder Caves on a Lantern Tour. 
• Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens 
• Eat lobster. 
• and camp at Acadia National Park where we plan to ride a horse drawn carriage up a mountain along the ocean coast. Apparently that's the thing about Acadia, it has mountains and sea in the same place. 

That is the plan. Weather, van troubles, may change things. 

My daughter's homework this evening

I have no way of knowing what the teachers expect when they ask the kids to draw the answers on their homework. I wonder if they get shocked when she hands in stuff like this, or if there are just some kids that go all out and she's just one of those kids.

Shocked the hell out of us anyway. And I guess that's what counts.

My favorite video from our trip.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3rbmHipwurWbjlKc3JPZFl3cms/view?usp=sharing

Went On Some Rides

Made Some Friends

Stitch and Stitchy

 

Went to Mars for a minute.

We Put Their Service to the Test

Be Our Guest Restaurant Dinner Reservations

We ordered the Grey Stuff...it was Delicious

We visited the West Wing

And visited with the Beast

And Belle

I knew she could do it.

Scholastic Art Awards. Tough Art Contest. Only 1% winners were from middle school; the rest were from high school.

But she did it. Honorable Mention, Comic Art. Her artwork is on display at the museum. Here are pics from the award ceremony. She was, of course, the smallest winner there.

Unbearably Nervous

On the big screen

excerpt

round of applause

museum exhibit