Camp Day Two

Another beautiful day at camp today. I woke up this morning to this view; literally the first thing I saw as I opened my eyes. I elected to sleep on the bed that is on the open-air screened in porch again. It is about 20 feet from the lake – in the morning fog, you can hear the loons, and the water – it is beautiful and peaceful. The peace ended soon after however as we all took a customary dive in the cold Maine water first thing in the morning. Jamey had to cut the legs off of my pajama pants, and the kids swam in their underpants (it’s a very secluded area) because guess who left the swimsuits in Randolph at Grammy and Grampy’s house (yes it was me, I’m sure no one is surprised). The water was freezing, but we had a great time, the lake floor is a shallow sandy beach for quite a ways, though it gets up to around 20 feet deep in the middle of the cove. I’m told that when they let out the dam, the water level drops dramatically and the island that the cabin is on becomes surrounded with sandy beaches. Now, though it is a drop off of the dock a few feet. Onto breakfast—you can pick fresh blueberries right off of their bushes on the way in the door – what a treat – there are also boysenberries, Avery thought they were called “raisinberries”.

Brianna and Avery put on a dancing show. They danced around the inside of the cabin for awhile until Brianna knocked her front teeth straight onto the edge of a chair. They’ve been wiggly for almost a month now, and the chair helped the cause greatly. She bled for a little while but is fine. I think we’ll lose those teeth before vacation ends.

We fished for awhile but didn’t catch much and Grampy took the kids to pick blueberries on a nearby island – they didn’t come back with much. We think they ate them.
Jamey went fishing in a beautiful sunset, and I captured a few pictures of that.
After fishing, we lit a fire and watched the sun go down over the lake.
It rained last night, and we’ve had cloudy skies today, so Mt. Kitadin hasn’t shown in the distance tomorrow, but sunny skies are forecasted, so hopefully I’ll have some pictures of the mountain to share.

I’ll leave you with a few more pictures of the beautiful solitude that camp offers – I don’t think that it can really be captured, but I hope this will give you an idea of where we have been.