Old Orchard Beach
Mom and Dad told us that we needed to get some sleep because there was a surprise at the next campground. Driving into the campground, we saw three kids who recognized us immediately. The surprise was that we were spending the week with our friends from Boston that we met camping last summer!!!! They also have a camper and were going to camp with us for the week and they were parked close by.
We spent a lot of the time riding our bikes, playing basketball, swimming in the pool and hot tub. The campground even had an arcade with a claw machine that you won a ducky at every time. Two different nights we did family wiffle ball games.
The other big highlight of this week was that Gran came to visit! She took a flight to Boston and then a train that took her all the way to Old Orchard Beach where Eli and Dad picked her up. We did lots of stuff with Gran such as our beach day, checking out the LL Bean Flagship store and eating lobster.
On the third day we had a beach day. We went swimming, the water was freezing cold which was refreshing at the start but once you got in you were freezing. We also got to play with sand toys and make a grave for a dead lobster we found 💀🪦.The highlight of the beach was the shaved ice 🍧, it was delightful to have on such a hot day . I got tigers blood with blue raspberry and the honest review is a 10/10 . The coconut (a part of the tiger’s blood) was the best part . Then we took a trolley back to the camper.
We traveled one day to the most photographed lighthouse in Maine that is part of Fort Williams. It was awesome to see this lighthouse up close and it was by far the best lighthouse yet. There was a lot of history behind it such as; a shipwreck where the ship drove straight into the rocks right next to the lit light house. Our guide said there are rumors that it might have been on purpose but that might be local legend. We also got to see these big cannons that there ammo was as heavy as a cow! They could launch almost 14 miles out from shore which at the time of world war 1-2 was impressive tech but now we have much more crazy tech then back then.
We got custom hats at the pier where they airbrush designs onto hats that you want I got a sea turtle with my name on the side on a teal hat 🧢 My friend Nick got a matching hat and Eli got his favorite, Bluey!
Next is the Famcamp at Hanscom AFB.
Current leg: 189 Miles
Total miles : 606 Miles
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