Lots and Lots of Trees

This past weekend i was lucky enough to be able to make a short trip up to Maine to partake in keith's family vacation (this is only bc i have a half day on fridays and monday's are late days so i'm at the clinic from 12pm-1030pm). It was about time for me to make it since keith has already been on 2 of my family's vacations to OBX. Keith's family stays at a campground on Lake Pemaquid in Damariscotta, Maine. The campground was absolutely beautiful and the Lake was incredible. Annndd apparently some donor last year donated thousands upon thousands of dragonflies. this meant that throughout my whole time there i ended up with about 5 bugbites and didn't use any insect repellent at all. dragonflies eat mosquitoes = possibly my new favorite bug :)

keith and nat doing dishes after breakfast

Friday night we stayed with Dan and Holly and their 2 kids Nat and Tivvy who are 17 and 13 and really great kids. Dan and Holly are part of keith's NH family aka the "sunday night crew' and were nice enough to feed us and let us stay with them in their camper, who knew that campers has 2 king size beds? not this girl. the weather had highs in the mid 70's and lows in the high 50's and absolutely zero humidity. it was so refreshing, sometimes i forget how much i enjoy this kind of weather especially sleeping when its crisp :) also reminds me of football season...

friday night we laid out on a dock in the middle of the lake and watched the meteor shower, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, no moon to be seen, no ambient light pollution to speak up and saw 15-20 in about a half hour. we could actually see the milky way. it was awesome.

saturday morning we took a trip to the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse were i got my most northern glimpse of the atlantic ocean.





keith's family and the rest of the sunday night crew arrived on saturday afternoon
sunday we kayaked out to a few of the islands in the lake. about 5 minutes into kayaking keith decided to screw around and rock his kayak, he got one rock in before he flipped it. of course his life jacket was strapped to the front of the boat instead of on his person and proceeded to tread water while trying to right his boat. the best part about all of this, keith's dad borrowed a telephoto lens and got it all on camera :) unfortunately i don't have those pictures yet. Sunday night the trip finished up with a trip to the infamous Moody's diner which had delicious food and absolutely mouth watering pie. the crazy thing was that i ran into one of my moralers-Becky Ellis while waiting to get seated. it is definitely a small small world.

the whole crew a moody's gift shop


why hello there mr. crab

more naturelobster boat, yup i even tried some and liked it more than last time
eh, it's hard to take self pictures with my camera
death trap of awesomeness 4 20-somethings holding on and running around this thing and picking up their feet + centripetal force = a really good time and probably some tetanus