Maine-A visit to the cabin

This past weekend Sister and I went to Maine to visit Aunt JoAnne and Uncle Craig at their cabin! It was such a fun trip and I have lots of photos to share!

{first stop, Boston. we hopped straight into the car with Aunt JoAnne and headed north for Maine!}

{next, we took a coffee stop at LL Bean headquarters. The campus is huge with 4 or 5 buildings full of everything that represents Maine and the outdoors. Pretty amazing!}

{cute moose!}

We got in late that night, had dinner and headed to bed. The next morning, we started the day at the farmer's market! There's nothing more inspiring than fresh, local food and flowers. I love being out with other from the community in a setting like this!

{Look at those lilies!}

{cute tote bags made out of coffee bean sacks!}

{colorful chard!}

{purple carrots, too!}

The cabin is on Mount Desert Island which is also the home of Acadia National Park. Bar Harbor is also there, which is a popular tourist destination. The land you see across the water in the picture below is mainland Maine.

{this is the view from the cabin!}

{down on the shore during high tide}

Back in the day, the Rockefeller's used to come here to vacation. Around the island there are lots of 'carriage roads' where they would drive through to enjoy the scenery. This was during a time when 'rusticators' used to come up here from large east coast cities for vacation. Here's a link to some history about them.

{they built all these beautiful bridges}

{Bar Harbor for lunch. A cute little inn.}

{love her!}

Maine is know for a number of things: lobster, blueberries, LL Bean, etc...

{Also, Whoopie Pies! Yum!}

{Bar Harbor}

After lunch, we came back and headed out in the kayaks! I love being on the water...it's so relaxing!

{this is shore at low tide}

{Sister and Uncle Craig are carrying out the kayaks!}

{we've never kayaked together before!}

{pretty light at sunset}

{Aunt JoAnne made blueberry crumble for dessert!}

A great first day! More pictures to come...