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Our vacation at Quimby Pond

Our cabin was better than a dream (if we won the lottery tomorrow, we would buy it---it's for sale!) it had boats, a shower, games, books, a view , total seclusion (yet only 10 mins from town) and that wonderful log cabin smell. We didn't have perfect weather, but we all found plenty to do--and totally unplugged (except for music). Here are the highlights:

• Hiking: we did Hunter Cove, Smalls Falls and some of the appalacian trail. The kids did great, no one really complained (even when it was REALLY muddy---all the better to spot moose tracks) and walked(and climbed) the WHOLE time---Breanna actually spent a lot of time jumping.
• The breakfasts
• Josh's morning kayak ride (with coffee in hand)
• being out there
• campfires (lots of dry firewood provided!), smores, sparklers, and bringing our burnt sticks down to the water to hear the sizzle.
• the bunkhouse
• a vacation "as good as Disney world"
• Fishing (and being obsessed with fishing)
• riding in the kayak (and being obsessed with riding in the Kayak)
• the charcoal grill
• Lucy swimming two miles around the lake (and Josh mistaking her head for a buoy)
• no motor boats
• Trevor, "Mom isn't it just so peaceful out here?"
• Firsts: Breanna's first Kayak ride, watching a first duckling flight, Breanna;s first time peeing in the woods, the kids 1st loon sighting (up close)
• swimming, canon balls
• digging in dirt
• baby ducks
• bugspray (and Breanna's poor swollen eye)
• Lucas: I think we have a little problem here...I'm hiking all the way to Georgia."
• Trevor and Lucas being the "captains" of the boat.
• Trevor learning Sudoku, solitaire and Poker
• The view
• The sunsets
• The stars
• The quiet
• fixing the handrail (Bear Grills style)
• Quality time, savoring every minute (even when it rained)
• not wanting to go home
• booking another 5 days in August:)