Maine

The leaves are starting to change colors up here.

We had a coffee in this Mickey D's.  Look at the decor.

I took a picture of your dad near the Swift River here in NH.

The other side of the Mickey D's.

More of the river.

The Swift River again.

This is the boat we took over to Cabbage Island in Booth Bay Harbor, ME

They told us that Kennedy went to church in this cute little building.

The fourth oldest lighthouse in New England.

Another lighthouse on our way to the island.

We have arrived.

This is the dinner they served us.  The steamers weren't all that great but the Lobsters were.

Guess Who?

We saw this sailboat on the way back to port.

Now we are in Acadia National Park.  It's on an island.

Cadillac Mt.  It has a view of BaaHaaBah (Bar Harbor)

A view from the road down to the ocean.

Another view from the Mountain.

Bar Harbor and some of the Porcupine Islands.

The Bubbles on a rainy day.  these hills were scoured by a glacier.

Don't I look cute?  It's raning pretty hard at the time.

More ocean.  It is really beautiful up here.

Now this is the Bubbles on a sunny day.

Our horses, Betty on the left and Reba.  They are French Draft horses.

This house was designed by a man named Atterbury in about 1920.

That's the "carriage" we rode in for two hours.  It was six miles long.

We've had a great time in Maine.  We spent a whole week there.  It's too bad it's so far away.  I loved it there.  The people are really friendly.  We've seen people stop their cars and let people out of a gas station or a side road when there is a great long line of cars behind them.  It's nice they share the road like adults.  Go figure!

We're in New Hampshire today.  We got the last of Isaac in the form of RAIN last night and early this morning.  But we drove into the White Mountain Natioal Forest anyway.  It is really nice up here as well.  We didn't finish the scenic drive; it's over 100 miles. We're going back tomorrow.  We're not going up Mt. Washington because we will while on our tour.  It starts next Tuesday. 

Well that's all for tonight.  I hope we have better hotspot serve the next time to blog.  I didn't like being patient with uploading the photos.  I'm not good at that.   I hate to wait for anything.  And i had a ton of pics to share.  See ya soon.





We went to Plimoth Plantation Sunday. This is the inside of one of the Indian dwellings.  That is a native woman and her boys. 

This is another native showing how they cooked in 1630 or so.

Another Indian, this one is from Canada.

This is the entrance to the pilgrim village.  Now here the people are play acting 1627.

A replica of a bed from the period.

This lady is a housewife cleaning up after lunch.

The fires were in a corner of their one room houses for warmth and cooking.

This man is suppose to be the preacher for Plimoth.

Another play actor.

And his "wife."

The view of the Atlantic from the fort at the top af a hill.

The fort and your dad.

This is what our camp site looks like in Littleton.MA

A marina in Newport, RI

The houses here are really nice.  But who cleans them?

The beach that the Vanderbuilts could see from their HUGE cottage. We didn't feel like touring any houses.

The pictures got mixed up in the uploading.  Anyway this is the rock outside our house in Groton.

And the forest across the street has been made into a rec center.

This is on the Sub Base there. There is a museum now.  Your dad loved it.

The entrance.

This is the missile hatch like on his old boats.

Some little boy was asking your dad questions about all the cool stuff.

Your dad next to a Japanese sub 

There's our house on Pelican Drive.  Notice it now has garage.

The front yard.

Remember all the bushes that use to be in the front?  All gone.  We think they had just rehabbed the houses around here.

This is Trinity Church in Boston.

The house of the poet Longfellow.  It was used by Washington during the Revolutionary war.

The garden at the Longfellow house.

Old Ironsides.  It was closed because they had a Navy thing going on that day.

It has a nice museum at the Old Navy Yard.

More of the yard

We had lunch here. The place is huge.  There were tons of people here as well.

Dad was tired of waiting for our salads.

The inside of the Old North Church of Paul Revere fame.

The outside of the church.

This is how Boston marks most of the Freedom Trail walk.  We climbed this steep, steep hill.

And we saw a few grave stones.  This one was marked 1785.

We've had a busy week.  And hotspot service had been spotty in Conn.  So we decided to make this blog hold all we've seen since the last blog.  It was fun looking for the old house and going to the sub museum.  We got here in a Mass.on Thursday afternoon.  We made an appointment to go on the tour into Boston on Friday.  I'm glad we did because parking is crazy.  And the drivers were really interesting.  I heard someone say that driving is a contact sport here.

I don't want to go back  because it's so crowded there.  I guess it was just tourists.  We ran errands Saturday and drove to Cape Cod Sunday.  We stopped by and toured the museum about Plymouth.  It's called Plimoth Plantation.  I had a blast.  It's almost to bad I don't teach Thanksgiving anymore. 

Well, that's all we've done so far except eat seafood.  We've had lobster rolls and I ate some scrod yesterday.  Yum!  We leave tomorrow morning for Maine. 

More next week.