camping was great!

we left on saturday morning at about 9:30 and headed straight for Orland, Maine. well, we did stop on the way at a walmart in rockland to get our tent! fortunately they had a few in stock, and we got a nice 6 man and a queen-sized air mattress. phew! if they didn't have a tent, we would have been in trouble!

(here's the tent, with me and my big fat butt!)
just that one stop though, then we were back on our way. the drive took about 2 hours, and then there we were. i guess i'd driven through orland before on my way to bar harbor, but i never noticed it! the campground was beautiful though.
it's on a beautiful pond with a little pebbly beach, it has a cute little playground, and the kids just played and swam nonstop. oh yes, and the monkey bars. nina and maggie LOVED the monkey bars.
maggie would do this thing where she would climb up a 3/4 of the way to the top (they weren't very tall, maybe 4 feet high), and sit down on one bar, grab the bar in front of her, and then drop down. i couldn't watch! i was so afraid she was going to hit her face or dislocate an arm or something, but she didn't. and she loved it. so i let her keep on doing it, but i pretended it wasn't happening.

ethan had a great time too. he went kayaking on the first day, and fishing and canoeing on the second. he was in charge of our fire, too.
plus, he got to sleep in his own tent when our friend jenn left early because the her kids weren't falling asleep.
sleeping in our tent went well though, as well as sleeping usually goes for us anyway. maggie and nina and i were on the air mattress, and nick was on a mat that jill loaned him.

on sunday, we played for a while in the morning and then headed back to boothbay. it was so hot that we couldn't wait to swim. we did stop at the bucksport bridge on the way home, which was so amazing, and i'll put pictures up tomorrow.