Well, it’s been a fairly eventful first week in Maine. We had a good trip out here, no delays, no incidents. Miah, Summer, Donna and I left Montrose Saturday afternoon to head to Utah. We spent the night at my sister-in-law Hope’s house and got up at 5am to catch our plane to Chicago and then to Portland. Summer really liked riding on the airplane. She got a little scared when we landed because she didn’t know what was goin
g on, but we explained it to her and she was fine again. She slept almost all the way through the second plane ride out, which was good, cuz she was REALLY tired. We got to Portland at around 5. My Mom and Dad met us at the jetport and we stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way up to Dover, of course. Mmmmm…. Munchkins!
In the morning Meg had a doctor appointment and she was going to come over to visit before she went back to work. Well, she didn’t make it to the house. I woke up at 9am to Donna knocking on our bedroom door saying that Meg was in the hospital having the baby. 
Evidentially she had been in light labor for quite a while and didn’t know it. I couldn’t believe it! I told her to wait for me, but I didn’t think she would take me that seriously. ha ha. We got to the hospital at about 9:30 and a short 7 hours and 40 minutes later Alexis Leia Young was born. 7lbs 6oz 20 inches long. She’s ALMOST as cute as Summer was.
Tuesday morning Miah and I went to Orrington to visit his buddy, 
Warren. He’s got his own bike shop (<—Kelly’s Sport Shop)and he’s Canadian, so he’s a pretty cool guy. We hung out at his shop for a while and then we all went out to lunch at Ruby Tuesday, it was quite fun. Monday Miah went back again to pick up one of Warren’s bikes that he was nice enough to let us borrow for the week. I went over to Webber when we got back and got to see some of my old friends from work. It was nice to get back in touch after being away for so long.
Wednesday night Summer was very, very snuggly. And then she was very, very warm. Somewhere along the way she caught a little bug. She had a fever for about 4 days. After the 3rd day or so she 
started to have a cough, too. The fever broke the morning I took her to the doctor but we went anyway to make sure nothing more was going on – she had a little fluid behind her ears, but nothing much. By the time day 7 came around she was back to her normal wildness.
On Thursday we got a bunch of lobster and some scallops for Miah’s birthday. Summer loved that. She liked seeing them moving around and being able to touch them. Luckily she didn’t seem to mind it when we cracked them open to eat them either. We all really enjoyed our little mini seafood feast.
Tuesday Miah took me to Greenville on the bike he borrowed from 
Warren. We went out to lunch at Kelly’s Landing down by the water in Greenville Junction. (The fried clams were awesome. After lunch we decided to go over to Currier’s Flight Service and take a plane tour of Moosehead Lake – something we never did while we lived in Maine. It was really cool. We got to see Mt. Kinneo, Beaver Cove, Sandy Cove and a few other places that are pretty cool, especially from the air.
Miah and I got to go out to Bangor for our anniversary on Thursday. It was nice to get out for a while, do some stuff we used to do all the time. We went to Bullmoose Music and wandered around the mall for a while. Also went to Bangor and Brewer Goodwills! Yay! We went out to eat at Longhorn Steakhouse. That was REALLY good. They have awesome ribs there and the sweet potatoes were some of the best I’ve ever had… and I love sweet potatoes.
Friday was pretty busy for everybody. Donna and Mom went to Bangor shopping with Summer for most of the day. Miah and Dad took a couple canoes out to Brans Mills and went fishing. I worked on packing up my car so it would be ready to get picked up…. eventually. I managed to get a hold of my cousin, Josie and we went out to ice cream and hung out for a while. Later on, after 
everybody got back Miah and I took Summer to the playground in Guilford to meet up with our friend Crystal and her two kids. It was a lot of fun. We got to hang out for a while and Summer and Brianna, Crystal’s oldest, ran around and played.
Then it came time for our visit to be over. 
Meg and Josh came over Saturday morning with Kelsey and Alexis to say goodbye. We got some really cute pictures of the three girls together. Mom, Dad, Miah, Donna, Summer and I all made the trip to Portland. We 
ate some lunch and headed to the airport to catch out flight out. We said our goodbyes and headed to check in. Good thing we got there early – it took about half an hour for them to issue us NEW ticket numbers because Orbitz messed up and never ACTUALLY gave us ticket numbers for the flight home. After that episode it was a nice uneventful trip home. I have found my favorite airport that I’ve been to. The Detroit airport is a very cool place. They have a tunnel between the concourses with music and lights that pulse and change color, a giant jumping fountain and the train runs above the hallways. 
We spent the night at Hope’s house again and headed home Sunday morning.
It was a great vacation but it’s always nice to get home again.
Oh, and my Fiero has finally been picked up and is on its way out here right now!
