{"id":1537,"date":"2011-08-19T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T04:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/maine\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T04:17:13","slug":"maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

This day was happier than the photos and gloomy weather might suggest. To start with, we were staying with the Wing family. Rachel was an IBEX student now ten (!) years ago, and it was a privilege and blessing to spend time with her and her wonderful family. As I mentioned yesterday, our visit with them was made possible by a question on this blog<\/a> to which Rachel responded.<\/p>\n

We started the day in New Hampshire, spent most of our time in Maine, and then returned to New Hampshire. That sounds fairly incredible if you’ve spent all of your life in the Western states or Texas, as it simply isn’t possible to go to one state, do stuff, and then go to another state, all in a single day. But in New England they make everything small<\/em>, including their states. And, to be sure, we only saw the southern tip of Maine. I would love to go back and spend a week<\/strike> month there, and perhaps I ‘ll do that one day when I don’t have a job or a family.<\/p>\n

My photos today are limited and don’t show the fun the kids had playing at the house before we left. They don’t show the tasty picnic that Rachel’s mother prepared for us. They don’t show the playground the kids played on. Nor do they show the fantastic dinner we relished at Rachel’s parents ‘ home. But it’s ok to not take a picture of everything. We were too busy enjoying<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Our primary destination in Maine was the Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth. This is said to be the most photographed lighthouse in the world. I did my part to help it keep that record.<\/p>\n

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Then we had our photo taken with the lighthouse in the background. I think it looks smaller than I was envisioning. This photo does reveal why in many pictures you do not see me or Jonathan.<\/p>\n

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I hope the Wings won’t mind if I share this photo of their beautiful family. The Lord blessed us with their friendship in many different ways. Our kids and their kids bonded very quickly.<\/p>\n

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For the better part of the afternoon we hung out on the beach at Pine Point. Kelli and I watched Jonathan crawl in the sand while the Wings and the kids went various directions in search of all kinds of shells and beach things. They came back with quite a haul, but I have no pictures of that.<\/p>\n

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Is this too many pictures of Jonathan? There is a danger, I suppose, in having a filmless camera that takes 5 pictures a second.<\/p>\n

I ‘ll end with one of Luke and Bethany just playing on the beach. The water was surprisingly warm considering how far north we were. But the air was chilly enough that no one was swimming. <\/p>\n

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It was nice to finally make it to Maine, even if it was only a day trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This day was happier than the photos and gloomy weather might suggest. To start with, we were staying with the Wing family. Rachel was an IBEX student now ten (!) years ago, and it was a privilege and blessing to spend time with her and her wonderful family. As I mentioned yesterday, our visit with\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}