Summer Memories

Earlier this year we made a list of things that we wanted to do together this summer. We just didn't want the days to slip by and everyone just goes to work and we don't actually end up making our own memories throughout the year. So one of the things on the list was hiking. We have been trying out several new places recently. There are just so many spots that are amazing and beautiful places to go.

One day the girls and Mum met me after work and we went to hike The Great Slide Trail over on Mt. Desert Island. At first we wondered why it was called the great slide trail when it wasn't even very hard.

THEN we found out!! It was wicked steep and it's a good thing we weren't carrying much because you had to use your hands to get over some of those places.

There were rocks to climb under and rocks to squeeze between! So fun! Not for beginners or the faint of heart! It was amazing because there were some rocks that looked like they were just barely staying up on the side of the mountain, but they were solid! There was no way they were moving! It brought to mind the verse that says the Lord will hide me in the cleft of the rock. I love seeing things in creation like that. They bring new meaning to verses like that.

There's no better place for relaxation on a Sunday afternoon than down at the camp on the beach. I wanted to get a picture of this sail boat as it went by, but it was kind of far away, so I decided to take a picture through the binoculars, and this is what it looked like. Kind of pretty, I think.