Sunday, August 30, 2009

Rain in Maine

After yesterday’s late-ish night  we had a very lazy morning.  For over a week the girls had been nagging us to be allowed to watch a movie called “The Wizards of Waverley Place” (a series showing daily on the Disney Channel), so we decided to have a film night with crisps and candy floss.  We all enjoyed the film and nibbles and Hannah & Ellen were pretty tired by the time the film finished (about 10pm) and fell asleep pretty much immediately.

Today we weren’t greeted by warm sunlight, but by rain, rain and rain.  It rained all day non-stop.

For the first time since we left the UK over four weeks ago I felt quite chilly and simply couldn’t get warm and even ended up wearing my thermal top and microfleece and two pairs of socks!  When later in the day we checked the weather we found out it was a mere 52°F (about 14-15° Celsius) and after 4 weeks of hot, humid and sunny weather it definitely came as a shock.

We decided to have a quiet day at home to recharge batteries, our own as well as the cameras’, and to catch up with washing and drying clothes.  Tim caught up with all the computer stuff like backing up photos and videos. 

 The girls decided to play a game called “Lets pack our rucksacks, blankets and pillows and take them downstairs and make a huge mess” – well, actually they had improvised a camping story and had a great time.  (It was just mummy & daddy frantically reminding them not to lose any of their things).

A rainy day offers a good opportunity to do some schoolwork and I asked the girls to write about our day at the fair.  While Hannah got stuck in straightaway, Ellen needed some pointers so answered a few questions about which animals she saw, which rides she went on and what food she had to eat.  She did really well, her writing is coming on nicely and even managed to write several words without any help from regarding the spelling.  To finish off the task she drew a beautiful picture of the big wheel we went on.  I also tried a little numeracy with Ellen, she was getting tired (or so she said) but managed to finish ten sums in no time and was rewarded with some stickers and candy floss (that was one of the words she managed to write).  When Hannah finished her little essay, she moved on to some multiplications and times tables (2, 3, 5 & 6) and shortly after she finished it was time for afternoon snack.

Despite the persistent rain today we did venture out into Camden tonight to try out a local takeaway called Thai Kitchen.  The girls were up for it and chose egg fried rice with chicken and pineapple and Tim & I chose vegetable samosas with sweet chilli dip for starters and Pad Thai (noodles) with shrimps.  After a struggle with the key, we managed to get in and finally have our food.  Both girls tried to eat with chopsticks and had great fun, but unfortunately were slightly less keen on the food itself.  We were pleased, though, that they had tried it.  Both dishes were tasty but I can’t wait to get to Malaysia to try the real thing.  We ended our meal with fresh pineapple pieces (free dessert with takeaway) and watermelon.

We’re hoping for some dry weather over the next few days so that we can explore Acadia National Park and Cadillac Mountain.

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