Thursday July 16, 2015
Day 63
After a good night sleep, we woke early and headed to breakfast…we had a nice little breakfast, gathered our stuff….back up those stairs….then down…and we are headed to Popham.
I drove through downtown Bath showing them the Chocolate Church…because it’s painted brown. We then went through Main Street and pointed out where momma went up to see the doctor who told her she was “expecting” my sister Penny. I showed them the Bath Iron Works, the Maritime Museum, and the Plant retirement home. Mom said it looked the same that it did back in 1960. Momma wanted to know if the Stage Coach Hotel was still here. She said it was really old and had this huge wide staircase that led upstairs. It only had one bathroom for the entire floor.
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| Jo Nell, Darlene, Mary and Judy (Momma) in front of the Chocolate Church |
Now to Popham Beach to take them to the beach and see the Fort before we caught the ferry to the island. We talked about the riptides, the seals, the temperature change between where we were standing vs the temp on the island. We walked around Fort Popham, took photo’s. When I saw Ethan’s boat, we headed to the dock. Darlene, one of my momma’s, is deathly afraid of water. She did great. The tide was high, but we still had to climb down a ladder from the dock to get into the boat. The ladies did great. I introduced my momma and mommas to Ethan and Brook. We enjoyed the boat ride out, showing them Pond Island first. Then we arrived…Seguin! We didn’t tell Darlene about the dingy ride from the boat to shore…so this was either going to be fun or terrible…she did great, just like she had done it a million times. Tide was high and that meant that we would get off on the rocks which were covered by “lots” of seaweed. Again, they did great, momma only fell twice…dang that seaweed. Bandit was so happy to see her!
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| Jo Nell, my aunt and momma at Ft Popham |
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| Darlene and Mary at Popham |
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| Mary at spiral staircase in Ft Popham |
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| Maritime Museum |
Now we had to get up the hill. They were tired, but troopers and Brook was our hero. He grabbed half of our luggage and one large duffle bag of clean laundry and started up the hill….we took our time. I tried to get up here a little quicker because all the guest that had been on the ferry with us, were now up at the lighthouse.
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| Momma and Jo Nell on the ferry....ready to go! |
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Jo Nell looking out to Pond Island......Mary and Darlene ready to go to Seguin
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| Momma getting on the dingy |
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| Mary and Darlene READY to get on the dingy |
I arrived at the top and the island was covered in kids that were having a blast playing games….what…kids having fun playing games with each other and not on some phone/game machine, etc… They were a great bunch of kids, they said they had been in Small Point summer school and the parents, etc and had come to spend some time here. Wow…as they left almost every kid said “bye” and “Thank You”….how sweet.
All the other ferry visitors were looking around. Larry started the tower tours and I began inviting them into the museum and gave directions to the different trails. I love it when I give info in the museum and then you can “see” people become inthrilled with Seguin!
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| Summer School kids |
Boy it got quiet as quick as it had gotten wild and loud. Another couple of visitors came up later, but they said this was something they did every year…but they still did the tours…
Now I got time to talk to the girls about where everything was…their bedrooms, the bathroom, the kitchen, etc…
Larry made a platter of cheeses, summer sausage, vegetable, crackers and dried fruit….he said he was going to spoil them and he has started out well.
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| Desk set up...Sue worked hard to find the items to replicate the original USCG desk as seen in the photo |
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| Momma and Mary |
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| Sitting around enjoying the day |
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| Chef Larry |
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| Enjoying our food |
While we are enjoying our appetizers…he is in the kitchen fixin Chicken Pot Pie…Blessed!
He calls us to the dinner table and it is laid out and ready with our individual drink orders. Blessing said and we ate! Then we pulled out all the dessert things we bought for the week and put it in the middle of the table…like having a slumber party…poor Larry!!
It’s been a good day…my momma is here with me under the same roof some 53 years since we lived here! Looking forward to finding out some more info from her as we walk around the island…I will share later! Now to watch the sunset in the cold it's 59 degrees.
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| Waiting for the sunset...it's bright, but the sun is going down. |
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A perfect sunset to a perfect day
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