Back from vacation...
...and, yes thank you, we had a lovely time. I love our family vacations, lots of places to play and lots of time to just spend as a family. We hit a few places over the past week and a half... Herkimer, NY (home of the Herkimer "diamond"), Bar Harbor, Maine and Kennebunkport, Maine. So given the vacation, this post is going to be picture heavy. Here goes...
I don't alway dress my children like they're joining the witness protection program but it was extremely sunny and we were in an open pit mine in Herkimer. We found some nice 1.5 cm "diamonds" (actually double terminated quartz crystals).
Total boondoggle for me. Here I am in front of Webs (Hear the angels singing??), the east coast's biggest yarn store located in Northampton, MA. Major kudos to DH for taking all the kids to lunch so I could seriously focus on the acre or so of yarn. I wandered the aisles, jaw agape, for about the first half hour before I could even start to focus on a project. Ended up with Webs' own Colrain yarn in caramel for the cabled jacket on this page.
On the bar in Bar Harbor. Yup, finally dawned on me. Hello? The town is named for the sand bar exposed at low tide that connects the town of Bar Harbor with the Porcupine Islands. Color me clueless because, though I've been there twice before, I never made the connection. Kids were total happy campers poking about in a couple of tide pools off the sand bar.
Sometimes you can take a tourist board theme too far. This ice cream shop had lobster flavored ice cream. Um, yuck. The rest of the homemade flavors were extremely tasty though.
"I am Alexander H. Phillips. I own a mansion und a clock." *
Family at Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park. One of the few pictures we have of all of us to prove we do travel as a group. Thank you random passerby. (Thunder Hole was distinctly un-thundery, more flushy and glubby. But Flushing Hole wouldn't attract the tourists, would it?)
Ahhhh, the Kraken!!!
On top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. Yes, it was that windy. Yes, there should be a amazing view of the ocean behind them. Yes, that is a sock I made.
And a couple of quintessential Maine shots in closing.
On top of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park.
Bar Harbor, Maine.
*Extra points to readers who know the source of that slightly altered quote.
I don't alway dress my children like they're joining the witness protection program but it was extremely sunny and we were in an open pit mine in Herkimer. We found some nice 1.5 cm "diamonds" (actually double terminated quartz crystals).
Total boondoggle for me. Here I am in front of Webs (Hear the angels singing??), the east coast's biggest yarn store located in Northampton, MA. Major kudos to DH for taking all the kids to lunch so I could seriously focus on the acre or so of yarn. I wandered the aisles, jaw agape, for about the first half hour before I could even start to focus on a project. Ended up with Webs' own Colrain yarn in caramel for the cabled jacket on this page.
On the bar in Bar Harbor. Yup, finally dawned on me. Hello? The town is named for the sand bar exposed at low tide that connects the town of Bar Harbor with the Porcupine Islands. Color me clueless because, though I've been there twice before, I never made the connection. Kids were total happy campers poking about in a couple of tide pools off the sand bar.
Sometimes you can take a tourist board theme too far. This ice cream shop had lobster flavored ice cream. Um, yuck. The rest of the homemade flavors were extremely tasty though.
"I am Alexander H. Phillips. I own a mansion und a clock." *
Family at Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park. One of the few pictures we have of all of us to prove we do travel as a group. Thank you random passerby. (Thunder Hole was distinctly un-thundery, more flushy and glubby. But Flushing Hole wouldn't attract the tourists, would it?)
Ahhhh, the Kraken!!!
On top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. Yes, it was that windy. Yes, there should be a amazing view of the ocean behind them. Yes, that is a sock I made.
And a couple of quintessential Maine shots in closing.
On top of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park.
Bar Harbor, Maine.
*Extra points to readers who know the source of that slightly altered quote.
"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht. " So how many points do I receive??? I laughed out loud at the "KRAKEN" ( this must be said with a loud booming voice). The last picture made me teary eyed. That is the ship from my honeymoon. Oh nea some 10 years ago. ( does that sound Mainey? Piratey??)
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You get 14 quadrillion points! Plus 2 for being amused with my kraken picture.
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Y'all are jerks. How the hell am I supposed to compete, when A) the prenominate quote was originally voiced a score of years before my birth, and
Like I said, y'all Fabians are jerks.
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James - Clearly you spent too much time watching Ren & Stimpy and not enough time watching Bugs Bunny. That quote was voiced in 1956, well before us old fogies as well. Check out Elmer Fudd on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Fudd
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I did: I DID spend too much time watching Ren & Stimpy. As an adult, I indulged in a nostalgic viewing and it turns out it's not at all funny (unlike Calvin & Hobbes, which is, if anything, much funnier). But that still doesn't excuse what was clearly a rigged contest.
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