Seawall Beach

Ryley had another day off!  Yeah!  We spent the day hiking Morse "Mountain" to Seawall Beach.  You can only get to this beach by doing a 2 mile hike, so it's pretty deserted.  And it was gorgeous.

Poor Logan.  Had to have his picture taken again.

Mia found a barnacle

There were lots of these little driftwood shelters built around the beach

The only beach in Maine where we have found Sand dollars!

At the lookout point at the top of the "mountain."  The water to the left is the Atlantic.

Random huge cruise ship that passed by one of our favorite beaches (Willard) that night.  Look at how tiny it makes all the sailboats look!

End of summer....

  The nights are getting chillier, and the days are... well, sometimes the days are 64 and sometimes they are 89. :)    Here's a little of what we have been up to:

Fort Williams, watching an oil barge

I was making bread bowls for some soup, and Logan and Mia asked for some.  Logan made a man.  I was so proud.  He did it all by himself!

Mia "madeaman" too. :)

How Logan insisted on going to the beach.  In his "vacation hat" and "spy glasses"

Yes, we drug that seaweed the entire length of the beach...

Lightning Bolts the Robot.  Brought to you by Mia-naptime creations.  After making him Logan said, "Mom!  He can be my big brother!  Now you don't have to make me one!"  Glad I got out of that one. ;)

How Mia fell asleep.  For two hours.

Because we love Portland Head Light.  I told them they could close their eyes because the sun was bright.

The bouquet my cuties made me.

Logan the monkey

Ryley the crazy-adult-on-the-kid-swing

Dinner

What Logan looks like whenever he catches me taking his picture

Skipping rocks

Oil barge

Lobster bake, Raspberries & Plums

What we have been up to this weekend:

First, a silly little face

Pirate ship playground at Winslow Park for the annual resident lobster bake!

Check out all that lobster.  The one with the tinfoil and seaweed on top was also full of lobster.  

Ry was in heaven

So was Mia... she likes to hug them.  I was grateful they had burgers.  Ry is grateful I think lobsters are gross... it means he gets mine. :)  But really, lobsters are the bugs of the ocean.  You have to crack their shell with tools and wipe their poop off the meat before you eat it.  And sometimes their eggs.  Icky.

Beach at low tide... and a Mia tushie. 

He told me, "One smile, mom, and then I'm not smiling anymore for pictures."  

Fun park next to the ocean

Ry had to work on Saturday, so we went raspberry picking!  It reminded me of all the summers we would visit Grandma & Grandpa Poulsen's house, and Danny and I would try to beat each other out the door to eat all of the raspberries.   The dog in the corner is Arrow.  He belongs to the owners of Dole Orchards, but follows us around whenever we come here.  Logan and Mia love him, and I like the company. :)

Rows and rows of raspberries.  

There were tons of other yummy things in season, but Logan and Mia both requested to pick the plums.  We were all surprised to find these yellow plums!

We experienced another "Maine first"... whoopie pies!  They are a pretty big thing here... two big cookies with some type of frosting in the middle.  You can find them everywhere.. there are trucks that drive around and sell them.  They even have whoopie pie festivals.  This one was pumpkin with cream cheese filling.  It will definitely not be our last whoopie pie....