Hancock Point, part 1

Our lovely friends, the Parkers, were generous enough to loan us their house at Hancock Point for the weekend so we could all be together and celebrate Mom's 60th birthday. Hancock Point is truly one of the most beautiful places I've ever been and it was wonderful to be there.

I took a ton of photos over the course of the weekend, but I've tried to limit it to my favorites over the next couple of posts.

This beach is directly across the street from the Parker's house - they share it with the cottage next to them, so it is essentially their private beach. We spent the majority of our weekend down at the beach, looking for seaglass and shells and just enjoying the sunshine.

The views from the beach are incredibly iconic Maine views - gorgeous everywhere you look!


Myley is a huge fan of Bob and it was fun to watch them interact all weekend. She calls him "my Bob" and just thinks he's great. And he is pretty madly in love with her too.

Marc and his Myley

Cute girl!

Hancock Point, part 2

I LOVE this photo! Two of my favorite people! :)

We (meaning everyone except me and the kids) had lobster on Friday night for Mom's birthday. Myley wanted to see lobsters but was not interested in eating them at all.

My wonderful family! Logan was really sick all weekend, hence the lack of photos of him. Marc is holding him in this photo, but he really felt lousy the whole time. Poor kid!


The view from the porch of the Parker's house. Their family owns the grey cottage in front as well, but it isn't a year round house and was still pretty chilly, so we stayed in the Parker's newer, year round house.

Hancock Point, part 3

Bob and Erin showing off the crabs they found in the tidepools.


Our home for the weekend. Isn't it beautiful? Thank you to the Parkers for generously loaning us their beautiful house!!


Myley playing Angry Birds on my iPad. She was pretty good!

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

The sun finally came out on our last morning in Bar Harbor, so we headed for Cadillac Mountain to see the sights.

We saw this great waterfall on the way up the mountain. It was so beautiful!

Spring has officially arrived in Bar Harbor - the first cruise ship of the season came in on Friday morning. Can you see it in there between the islands?

Looking so posh in our sunglasses...

The Royal Wedding

We just finished watching the royal wedding and I loved every minute of it. I've been looking forward to this for weeks and I was so happy that we were on vacation when the wedding happened so I could watch the entire thing. Bob was very good to me and let me wake us both up at 4am and turn on the TV in our hotel room. He even got into it and enjoyed watching it!

They are a beautiful couple and it was lovely to see them so happy. Very fun!

Hulls Cove Beach

We continued our foggy tour of Mount Desert Island with a trip to the Hulls Cove Beach to look for sea glass.

I love this beach - it is one of my favorite spots on the island. Its a small beach, but the views are lovely, especially on a clear day (not to be confused with today when it was cloudy, grey and foggy).

It was incredibly windy today and we got blown around a lot, but it was still fun to poke around. We found some fun pieces of sea glass - mainly clear and brown, but I found a tiny piece of bright orange glass, and a tiny bright orange shell.

Bob is never happier then when he is poking around in tide polls, looking for crabs and mussels and anything else he can find. Nothing exciting today, but it was still fun to look.

Foggy Northeast Harbor

As any of you who have read this blog know, Bob and I love Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. We've been numerous times in the last year and a half and we'll continue to visit whenever we can. To us it is the perfect place - a reasonable drive away (we love having that much time to listen to podcasts of This American Life), a place we know well so we don't have to be tourists and we can just relax, plus it is just a beautiful place!

My mom turns 60 on Saturday and we're all meeting at the Parkers' house at Hancock Point tomorrow to spend the weekend together. Bob and I decided to take advantage of our April vacation and come up here a few days early. We got a great deal at The Bar Harbor Grand Hotel and we've been enjoying Bar Harbor since we arrived yesterday afternoon. However, luckily our plans aren't dependent on the weather! It has been rainy, foggy and windy the last two days, which put a bit of a damper on some of our plans.

We decided that we wanted to take a boat ride, but we are a couple of weeks too early for the whale watches and other tourist boat rides out of Bar Harbor. So we drove to Northeast Harbor this morning, hoping to catch the mailboat out to the Cranberry Islands.

It got foggier and foggier as we got closer to Northeast and this is what we saw when we arrived.

Needless to say, there were no boats for us to catch anywhere, so we'll have to wait until we are back in August. The harbor was really beautiful in the fog though!