The Forks

Hi, Amanda here. Last Thursday Gramps, Grammie, Jared and I took Callum for his first trip up to The Forks which is a great town about 1 hour from our house. We got up there around 1 pm after having a relaxing morning standing around our kitchen island eating McDonald's breakfast sandwiches. Yum.

For lunch we stopped into Northern Outdoors which is an 'outdoor adventure resort'. They do whitewater rafting trips, tubing, fishing and hunting trips, and also snowmobiling and snowshoeing in the winter. You can stay in the campground or in one of their rustic cabins and after a day of fun you can relax in their outdoor pool or hot tub. I would like to stay there sometime - preferably in the winter so we can do some snowshoeing.

Anyway, they also have a brewpub and restaurant with great food and good beer (according to Gramps and Jared). Their Kennebec River Loggerhead Lager is one of Jared's favorites, if not his #1 pick.
We had a great lunch and even Callum got to sample some of their beer. Just joking.
After lunch we headed up the road to Moxie Falls. There is about a 1 mile walk into the falls, but it's well worth it. Callum did great riding in his Baby Bjorn carrier and I did my best to ward off the mosquitoes and deer flies. Luckily they didn't seem interested in him, but I got pretty much eaten alive. I think we all did. This is me, Jared and Grammie making our way to the falls.

And here is Moxie Falls! We saw a lot of people swimming in some of the pools both above and below the falls.

It was a great day, followed by burritos at our house after we got home. Thanks, Gramps, for remembering your camera and taking all the pictures. Jared and I are hoping to take Kranthony here (and maybe do some tubing!) when they come up next week.

Well, Jared is at the movies tonight with his friend Eric so I'm going to make the most of it and paint my nails, read a book and go to bed early. Goodnight!