Over A Month Ago...

Here's some overdue pictures from Cassie's visit. I'm way behind in posting these, but she came to visit during the busiest month of the summer and I'm content in using that as my excuse.

We had great weather - about the only real summer weather we got - and took advantage by going for a hike. Somehow we managed to get lost and wound up walking an extra hour or so. Thankfully you can never really get lost in Acadia, it's just not big enough. We just managed to get off of the trail we had intended to take and wound up on a carriage road. Either way it was a gorgeous day and none of us minded.

We also went up to top of Cadillac for the sunset which Joe and I hadn't been able to do all summer. It was gorgeous, as usual, and all three of us enjoyed a beautiful display of colors. I also was able to play around with my camera and I managed to some pretty nice pictures.

You Fish, NOW!!!

Football Saturday's are back! So not only does that mean I get to curl up on the sofa and watch Michigan football (which is thus far looking rather impressive) but it also means more blog posts for you lovely readers! So yes...this is my second post in one day! This has not happened in...we...let's be honest, probably a year. I'm lucky to get a post a week up here now, which is sad. But I'm hoping that after the wedding next week, things will slow down--plus I should have some pretty wedding pictures!

So now I've got some more pictures to catch up...starting with Jimmy's visit to Bar Harbor. We made a fantastic dinner with mussels, clams, lobster and corn--all the good stuff. We started with this:



And wound up with this!



And it was delicious!

I'm not the biggest seafood fan, but I do enjoy a good lobster and some mussels every now and then. I also enjoy actually digging for the clams and gathering the mussels. It's so gratifying to be able to find your own dinner--not to mention it's free! It was a really gray afternoon when we headed out to Hadly Point and the tide was out particularly far-much farther than I've ever seen it. Clam digging was especially easy with more exposed beds, and Jimmy turned out to be a great clam digger, so we wound up with a lot of shellfish.


(notice the matching Michigan t-shirts!)





We also were lucky enough to see some dolphins and a seal swimming around just off shore. It was the first seal I've seen and I couldn't believe how close he was to the shore. We also found some gigantic whelks and a number of baby crabs. Needless to say, we saw a lot of sea creatures in a small amount of time.



It was great afternoon followed by a filling dinner that left us all a bit seafood-ed out. And if that wasn't enough, we went on a fishing trip the next day and came home with 4 more lobsters, about 6 crabs, and a bag full of pollock and mackerel. It was another great day-thanks in part to the seasick patches Jimmy brought for us. The majority of the boat wound up sick from the choppy seas, and we were just about the only ones still fishing at the end of the trip.





All in all, we had a great time with Jimmy! It's nice that so much of our families has been able to come visit. I'm always so excited to share this place with anyone and everyone that wants to come out!