Stop 5: New Hampshire

Sad news, our camera has broken. Sigh, so many fun memories not being captured. It works very sparingly, and when it does the focus is horrible. But we're charging the battery right now so cross your fingers that helps the situation.

Let's see, last time we left off we were in Maine and eating a lot of lobster. We went on a hike up Champlain Mountain and saw some amazing views, but alas...no camera. I guess you'll just have to mentally picture a 180 degree view of the bay spotted with islands. Perhaps the best part of the hike were the wild blueberries that ran along both sides of the trail. At one point Morgan came around the corner and there I was, sitting in the middle of the trail eating handfuls of blueberries. That was definitely my favorite hike of the trip. Our final day in Maine was spent doing laundry once again. We got rained on a lot in Maine so we had a lot of damp, dirty clothing to wash. As we were driving out of town we saw signs everywhere welcoming the Obamas to town and cops were swarming the place. It looks like we picked a good day to leave.

New Hampshire is treating us well. We're really enjoying some nice lazy time, our camp site is our favorite so far with lots of privacy and a brook running through the back of it. The creek is a lot of fun with rock slides and swimming spots, we've even bathed in it which Morgan desperately needed. The water is a bit on the cold side (seriously probably 50 degrees) so you can't stay in too long and still feel all of your limbs. Charlie is a compolete water dog now, we went fishing yesterday and he spent the whole day splashing around in the river and trying to eat the fish that Morgan caught. We ate a tasty dinner of fresh-caught trout last night with asparagus. We continue to eat well (probably a little too well for how much we've laid around lately).

Our campground is a few miles south of Gorham, NH so we're relatively close to civilization (they have a WalMart!). It's been raining off and on here so we've had to spend a lot of time huddled under the canopy tent, but we have a deck of cards and plenty of reading to keep us busy. We have 2 more nights here before we head to the Adirondacks on Wednesday. We'll do our best to do interesting things with our remaining 2 days in NH so the blog will be at least mildly interesting. The mountains surrounding us are breathtaking, maybe we'll get out there and explore them this afternoon. We do have a few pics from before our camera broke...once again, here's the link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nikki.mkelley
Hopefully our camera will start cooperating, we'll post again in New York!!