Saco/Old Orchard KOA, Kennebunkport

Great last day!

Beautiful weather (Sophie's hair has never been so easy to manage)!

We journeyed out of the park to Old Orchard Beach area: a beach, boardwalk, arcade, amusement-park and tons of t-shirt shops. Bought the kids skim boards for when we go to the beach back home. (They were very cheap - we expect them to fall apart the first time they try to use them.)

A little cheesey, but the kids loved it. The arcade and carnival-like rides were perfect settings for one of those creepy, suspenseful kind of movies where everyone is having fun, carnival music is playing but lurking in the shadows is some sort of disturbed guy... So like I said, the kids loved it and Evan and I enjoyed (at the time) fried clams (perfect place for them) but can't really talk about them now as it makes me a little sick.

After we had enough of that place (forever) we continued on to Kennebunkport. We looked hard for George and Laura and the gang, but to no avail. Very cute, tony town that had its share of t-shirt shops too, but at least the t-shirt sayings didn't have to be explained to the kids. "Kennebunkport" and "Maine" was pretty self-explanatory.


We made it back to our KOA by 4 and went right to the pool. Most of us swam and just had fun hanging out on our last afternoon. Sophie loves the playground and she and Cameron have played a few games of checkers up at the main house. We ordered pizza and brownie sundaes from the Merry Moose on site and the kids and Evan are now starting... our LAST fire! Evan was trying to back out of making one tonight, but that got shot down pretty quickly. Kids going to an 8:30 movie back at the Merry Moose - hopefully we'll still be awake when they get back!

There is a perky little red-head lurking around camp that keeps biking circles around us asking Michael if he will bike with her, play with her, swim with her, etc. Clearly she has not been taught what a polite brush-off sounds like.

Tonight at dinner we listed our favorite camps according to best view, most amenities, most unique, nicest kids, cleanest pool, hottest showers, etc. Hard to pick an overall winner as they all offered something that made this trip our best family vacation yet...

So Ev, we did it! You did an amazing job of planning this trip, from the RV parks, to the excursions, to driving the Beast to making fire (so manly) and for keeping us all happy, safe and together.

Thanks to all of you for following along... see you around the 'hood and beyond!