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Lessons for life:
- Maine is still cold in May
- Fire smoke will leave your eyes burning, I don't care how good it smells.
- Camping with friends can only lead to crazy, fun times.
Kelly's weekend adventure in the backwoods of Maine: All I have to say is someone should have checked the weather report. Friday I met Ruhi and Erica at Acadia. We pitched camp, played in the ocean and scrambled along the rocks at the edge of the water. With our creative minds we turned couscos, notdogs and carrots into a yummy caserole and proceeded to perfect the art of marshmallow toasting. I stood near the fire letting the smoke drift into my face, listening to the waves crash and watching my friends, and realizing how happy I was. Also how much I missed my Smith friends. We tried to go to bed early but laughed long into the night.
Saturday we woke up to rain, but got a fire started anyhow (yay to Girl Scouts), and hiked to Sand Beach. It was a beautiful hike, if not a little wet and chilly. We ate fresh bread, hummus and wax wrapped cheese alone on the beach, silently watching the waves crash at the rocks. Without warning Ruhi turns to me and states (very matter of factly) "Kelly what makes you happy" and thus ensued a half hour discussion in which we proceeded to list out so many things. I'll spare the details. We attempted to climb Beehive (a steep ascent with open rock face and metal rungs), but halfway up ran into a rescue team pulling someone off the mountain. We turned around.
Arriving back throughly soaked and numb with cold we headed out to find "a fish shack" (I kid you not). We ate well and drank decaf coffee and fell asleep (not surprisingly) to the sound of more rain.
The second half of the weekend more or less mirrored the first half, we were cold, wet, but extremely content with life. Somebody please remind me that I want to do the AT before I become to old and cynical to appreciate it. I also came to the conclusion that the world would be a better place if everyone were required to spend one weekend a year in the wilderness, but thats another story.