Day 5 and 6: Acadia National Park

Have you ever been in a place where you just can't get anywhere because every time you turn around there's another breathtaking vista? This place is like that. Cliffs, ocean, mountains...really everything you could ask for in a view. Here are a few. Unfortunately, the pictures don't really do it justice.

Mom, Sammy and I did some pretty ambitious hikes. We felt really proud of ourselves for completing them. We scrambled over rocks, pulling ourselves up by our hands, and lifting Sammy up over the high places. Finally we would emerge on the rocky top of a cliff to look out over the mountains and the lakes. Up there the breeze was blowing and we were sweaty but victorious. Seriously, it's hard to say how much fun it was (well, lots of parts during the climb were not so much fun, but overall). This morning we had planned to do one last great hike but it rained. We ended up doing a short one around the lake instead. I will definitely have to go back Acadia. Here are some pictures of us actually hiking. Obviously I was kinda having a hard time choosing.

We also got up on Saturday to watch the sunrise on the top of Cadillac Mountain. I was not crazy about the idea at first because the sun came up at 4:49 am, but it turned out to be beautiful (Mom was right). The only thing that was frustrating was that there was something like 100 other people on top of the mountain as well. And some of them were not so much watching the sunrise as giving a play by play account of what was happening. Be glad these are pictures and not video.

So now we're in Canada and I'm tired of writing. Hopefully I'll get up tomorrow in time to tell you about poorly planned border crossing... much to my disappointment, no Mounties were involved.