Once there, the first thing the kids did was check out the ocean...
Then into the Aquarium we went. No one warned us that this was a one-room Aquarium. We got to see some lobsters, anenomes and trout in the fish tanks, and then pet some Dog Sharks in one touch tank. The far wall had a tide pool touch tank with a Nazi docent who would snatch things away from you if you got to close to actually touching them. (In her defence, she looked about 800 years old. Oh, am I not defending her? Sorry. So that I don't say anything more rude about her, I will end this section.)
After playing with the sharks and the tide pool touch tank, the kids went outside to watch the lobster presentation. We learned lots of cool things about lobster traps (did you know that the place where they put the food is the kitchen and the place where the lobsters crawl into is called the parlor? And that all lobsters have one huge claw, called the crusher and one smaller claw called the pincer? Really!) Nathan got to help with the presentation by putting the bands on a (fake) lobster.
We also got to see a blue lobster. Blue lobsters are very rare. Only one in every one million lobsters is blue!!
After the presentation, we headed back inside for a few more minutes with the touch tank. Nathan really liked the starfish...
Amelia and I checked out the area while Nathan and Dad washed their hands. Amelia found some friends and went swimming while we waited...
We then headed over to the Botanical Gardens. The Garden of the 5 Senses was one of our favorite parts...
Note to self, I want a stone labyrinth pathway when we buy a house....
Really cool basin in the meditation garden...
Can you tell by this picture that Nathan is really sick of "all this stinking walking"?
We ate at The Lobster Shack in Boothbay Harbor. You can get a grilled cheese sandwich, lobster and/or a bottle of Dom Perignon. It is a strange mix of basic, order-at-the-window "restaurant', and high class, $35/lobster establishment. They were featured on the Food Network. Crab Cake Throwdown with Bobby Flay. The food and prices were above average, but not spectacular.We were going to stop and get ice cream on the way home, but we would have had to contend with waking up Nathan...which is NEVER a good idea. Not even for ice cream.
We stopped for a bit of perusing at the Christmas Tree Shop in Augusta on our way back home. I picked up a sno-cone maker for $15.00!!!!!
Once we got home, the heat and the humidity overwhelmed us. I called up to camp to see if Jason and Hallie were there yet...no answer. Called up mom, they weren't coming up this weekend. Guess what? Fifteen minutes worth of racing around and throwing things in bags, and we were ready to spend the night down at camp! We hopped into the Xterra and off we went. The fresh air revived the boy...
We had a great night at camp. We saw two adult loons and one baby loon when we first got down there. We swam, had sno-cones for snacks, Chris BBQ'd some fabulous chicken for dinner, and we ended the evening by the fire pit with two s'mores each and plenty of time poking sticks in the fire. Ah! Camp!
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