At "Camp" in Maine

Joe's mother's family has a "camp" on Branch Lake in Maine. It is a glacial lake that is about 40 minutes from her house (20 minutes outside of Bangor). "Camp" is a two room shell of a building that has one room that is a bedroom, living room, kitchen and a bunk room in the back. Its a perfect little get away for a few days. We spent 4 days and 2 nights there. (Only our family stayed the night). Margie and her boys would come down during the day and play with us. Nana and Bampi would come too!

It was fun to play in the lake, there was a little area of sand next to a big dock that the kids could jump off into the lake from. There were also kayaks and inner tubes to play with. The last day, Jayne and Ken came and brought a floating trampoline, which was a lot of fun too. The water was cool, but not cold. The weather was perfect almost the whole time that we were there!

Josh, Jack and George on the floating trampoline.

Joe loved swimming and playing with the kids.

Michael loved the paddleboat...he stayed on there for hours, giving people rides.

There are two islands on the lake. Joe and I rode the canoe out to the island one day, towing the boys in their kayaks. The rope going from us to Michael was almost always taut, but from Michael to Adam it was often lank. The islands have wild blueberries growing on them, and we found that on one of the islands, the blueberries were ripe, so we were able to pick enough to have blueberry pancakes!

Notice in the next two pictures that Adam is smiling and Michael is terrified.

We were surprised by how quickly the boys picked up kayaking...they got in and were immediately rowing around in the lake.

Joe, of course, had fun diving and jumping and cartwheeling off the dock.

Ellie swam a little, but since it was cold, she mostly stayed on the shore.

It was a lot of fun!