The last night

Goodbye ocean

Goodbye beach

Goodbye Maine

Booth Bay Harbor Botanical Gardens

Here we are at the botanical gardens in Booth Bay Harbor. Eddie, Denise, Ava, Kristen, Mark Ellie and Cal


Ellie displays her favorite pose

Brown-eyed Susans

More lily pads

Sisters Ava and Ellie

The view from the gardens

The Simmons family

We ate lunch on the third floor deck outside in a little Bistro

The view from our table

Random Maine

The Wedding Cake house in Kennebunk
built by a sailor for his wife as a wedding present

Ruby red slippers on cute little Ava feet

Cal and Denise's house in Kennebunkport

Denise and I sitting on a stump that had washed up during the remnants of a hurricane the week before

Feeding the seagulls on Goose Rocks beach, if you look closely you can see the gulls catching the bread while it was still in the air

Just in case I ever think I want to live there, this is a fire hydrant, the pole attached to it is so the firemen can find it if the snow gets deep!

A three hour tour

Eddie, Denise and I took a Lobster Cruise

The view as we were leaving the port


The tour guide pulled a trap up complete with lobsters

It was a beautiful day to be on the ocean

Lobsters, little girls and rocket balloons

On Friday night we cooked 7 lobsters in two big pots

The finished product

This is how we all felt

after a delicious lobster dinner

Ellie and Ava relaxed in the new playroom beds

and had great fun

with the rocket balloons

Two very sweet little girls

Stonewall Kitchens

On Saturday we attended a cooking class at Stonewall Kitchens

We had bruschetta

Salad with strawberry vinaigrette

Crabcakes

Shrimp skewers that I forgot and ate before I took a picture

and a fruit cobbler

Kayaking on the Mousam River

The transportation

The lily pads on the water were blooming, they were beautiful

This was the view as we paddled along

The maple leaves are already starting to turn