Wednesday

This morning found us heading to Reid State Park. In all the years we have been coming to this area, we have not visited this park and after we arrived, we wondered why in the world we have missed out on this great spot!

We were meeting a friend that I had met on-line through an adoption yahoogroup. Felicity and John are waiting to bring home their precious little girl from the Philippines.

Me and Felicity

The day was very foggy and a bit cool, but this did not deter our group. The kids couldn’t wait to hit the water. The tide was going out and the waves were great. Bessie went right in riding the waves back and forth. She was so thrilled. The younger set enjoyed having the waves chase them up the beach.

Rachel and Gabe love the waves

The bigger kids brave the surf

Bri trying to get some sand out of his water shoes

Dan and Fern

The kids lost one of the sand pails in the surf. We thought it might come back up, but it went further and further away. I’m not sure where the tides will take it. Dorothy, keep a lookout of an orange sand pail. It might be washing up on a beach near you!

Dan, Fern and Randy

We had a picnic lunch and a wonderful visit. It was so nice to chat about their upcoming adoption and get her impressions of the Littles after a year. Sometimes we are too close to the situation and don’t always see the improvements they have made.

Dan and Hannah enjoy their lunch

Gabe and Dan making sand angels

We arrived back and the campground and everyone needed a good hosing off. I took some of the kids down to the showers to speed things up and Brian kept Dan and the camper and gave him a shower.

We had a quick snack and then went down to Boothbay Harbor. I was missing one color for my stitching block and I’m almost done! We also went to the greenhouse in town, which has a nice selection of perennials. I picked out of few nice varieties.

We are having a great camping vacation and I’m sure everyone will be sad to see it end.