We spent 3 nights and 2 days on Mount Desert Island in Maine.  The first night we arrived to our rental with a tornado warning!  The storm quickly passed and we enjoyed a delicious seafood dinner on Bass Harbor at Seafood Katch.  The following day we were up bright and early since the sun rises sooooo early in Maine!  We checked out the Mount Desert Lighthouse which was right down the road from our rental.  We then headed into Bar Harbor to go whale watching.  Unfortunately, on our way into town we received a call that it was too rough out at sea and they had to cancel our trip.  We took the Bar Harbor cruise instead and explored the sand bar and all that Bar Harbor has to offer.  We also all tried lobster for the first time.  Blake enjoyed playing with it more than eating it! The second day was spent exploring Acadia National Park and driving up Cadillac Mountain which is the highest point on the East coast! 

Day 6 of our New England adventure had us leaving Maine and driving to Salem, Massachusetts. Salem was a bit of a disappointment for us.  We viewed the Salem Witch trial memorial and ate a delicious lunch at Rockafellas, but the Salem visitor center and the Salem Maritime National Historic site were both closed, on a Tuesday! After lunch in Salem we headed into Boston.  We spent two nights in Boston at the beautiful Omni Parker House.  Exploring the city and sightseeing along the Freedom Trail was such a cool experience.   We decided to do a hop-on-hop off trolley on the second day.  I highly recommend this as there is so much history to see all across Boston.  

On the 8th day of our adventure we drove to Plymouth, Massachusetts.  We saw the Plymouth Rock, toured the replica of the Mayflower, and explored Plymouth Patuxet Museum. We then drove to Narragansett, Rhode Island for two nights to stay at The Aqua Blue Hotel.  The kids enjoyed the cute town and how close we were to the ocean.  We spent the last day of our vacation on Block Island.  This was one of my favorite things we did on this trip.  We took a ferry 12 miles out into the Atlantic to Block Island for the day.  The downtown area reminded me of Mackinac Island. We hiked out to Moghegan Bluffs and checked out the South East Lighthouse.  We took a taxi back into town to eat lunch at Rebecca's and then walked to the beach to let the kids swim.  By the time we took the ferry back to Narragansett we were all exhausted.  We grabbed dinner both nights from The Bike Stop Cafe, which we all agreed was the best food we had on the entire trip!  We woke up and drove 13 hours home.  We were completely exhausted from this trip, but we made some wonderful memories! 

My family just returned from a 10 day road trip across all of the New England states.  We had 42+ hours of drive time and covered 11 states.  We spent most of the first day driving to get to Lake George, NY.  This was suppose to be a quick stop for the night on our way to Fort Ticonderoga the following day.  We were presently surprised by how beautiful Lake George was and our hotel was EVERYTHING!  The Courtyard Marriott was the second best hotel we stayed at on this trip.  We were right on the main road with the only roof top seating area in all of Lake George.  We grabbed some pizza from right next door and enjoyed it on the roof with a view of the gorgeous lake.  This is definitely an area I would go back to as it had cute shops, restaurants and you can rent boats to fully enjoy the lake! 

Day 2 had us heading an hour north to Fort Ticonderoga.  We explored the fort and Mt. Defiance.  Both of these are on the northern part of Lake George.  We then drove up to Ben & Jerry's Creamery in Vermont.  After enjoying a delicious ice cream treat we headed to Indian Head Resort for the night in New Hampshire.  The kids enjoyed the pool, hiking along the river behind the resort and using their paddle boats on the lake behind the resort. 

We woke up bright and early to head a mile down the road from our motel to hike the Flume Gorge.  This ended up being the favorite thing we did for almost everyone on our trip.  It was a 2 mile hike and it was absolutely breath taking.  When we finished our hike we drove through the White Mountains and headed to our rental in Maine.  

My photos due zero justice to the beauty that is Flume Gorge.  You need to visit! 

We had the cutest rental on Desert Island by Acadia National Park in Maine.  Stay turned for the next post to read about the rest of our vacation!