Mom & Levi visiting!! (Thursday-Saturday)

Thursday, I had the day off, and my Mom and Levi arrived also. Their flight got into Maine at 11:00 AM, and they rented a car and drove from the Airport to the house, so they got here around 2:00 PM. For Dinner, my Mom, Levi, Uncle Art and I all went to McLoons Lobster Shack. My Mom drove us all there in the new car that they rented for the 5 days. It was a nice BMW convertible. Here is a picture of my Mom and Levi in the car. 

 McLoons Lobster Shack is right next to the Wharf that Uncle Art uses for his boat, where we go out every morning, so when we are done for the day, we always see a ton of people at McLoons Lobster Shack eating Lunch. 

This is a picture of McLoons Lobster Shack, it is right on the water. 

I ordered a cheeseburger with American cheese, and a Lemonade. Levi got the same thing, the burger was very good!

From McLoons, Uncle Art drove the car to Harjulas Ice Cream. It is an Ice Cream place right on a big hill next to a river, and they have their own farm across the road also. I got Moose Tracks, and Toasted Coconut, both of the flavors were delicious. Levi got Cookie Dough and Campfire Smores with rainbow sprinkles. 

After we were finished with our Ice Cream, my Mom drove us home. On the way home, she stopped on the side of a certain road, and I got to drive the rest of the way home. It was not that long, but it was still fun driving the BMW for a little bit. It was so smooth. 

Friday, I was back to work. Uncle Art woke me up around 5:50 AM which was way later than usual because I usually wake up around 4:40 AM, so I got to sleep in a bit. We had a later day today, we were going to be done around 2:00 PM. I made a sandwich and packed my lunch with crackers, a bottle of water and a Gatorade. It was very sunny Friday, and I wore a lot of sunscreen. 

In one of our traps, we caught a small Lumpfish, which are fish that can be found in the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific Ocean. They grow to be much bigger, and can be found in a variety of colors, but when they are small they are very cute! Uncle Art always kisses them on the lips for good luck. 

While we are on the boat, sometimes this one Seal will always follow our boat around, eating some of the leftover fish from the bait bags. Sometimes we see it and drop it a piece of Herring and it comes right up to the boat to take it, and it is so cool. They look like sea doggs! I was able to get a picture of one right after giving it a piece of Herring.

They look very pretty. Friday, we found a huge lobster, bigger than any we have found before, and Uncle Art got a picture of me holding it. It was way to big to keep. 

That day we ended up with 488 Lbs of Lobster. It was way more than we thought we would get, we thought we would maybe get 4 crates, but we got 5. Each crate we fill is 90 Lbs, so 4 crates would be 360 Lbs, but we got more than 5 crates, since 5x90 is 450 Lbs and we got more than that. It was a good day, we got done at 2:30 PM, but we did start later than normal, since I got up at around 6:00 AM.

Friday after I got home, I did some SAT prep so that my Mom and Levi could come and pick me up so that we could go to Walmart. We took the BMW of course. We walked inside the Walmart through the Home side, and the first thing that we saw on the right were some 'Maine' sweatshirts. There were some cool colors, and the green one was really bright, and they had a Medium, so I got one. It was very comfortable on the inside, so I wore it when I got home.

We walked through the store, we got some things for Mama and Levi at their house. My Mom got a Hairdryer for the house, and I also got a new hairbrush. I chose the biggest one that I could find, so that I can brush my hair the fastest by having a big brush. In the parking lot on the way out, my Mom spotted this cool car, and she wanted our picture by it, so here are the pictures. We met the guy who owned the car also. He was very nice. 

We dropped some things off at Keag House for my Mom and Levi on the way home. When we got home, we started getting ready for dinner. Uncle Art, Aunt Pennie, and My Mom were going to have fish, but Me and Levi were going to roast hot-dogs over the fire outside. I made a salad with my hot-dogs as usual. 

My Dinner, 2 hot-dogs and a Salad. 

This is the awesome Aunt Pennie salad bar she makes for people to make delicious salads. 

We made our hot-dogs over the fire, then had dinner with everybody inside. The hot-dogs were very good, along with the salad, sweet corn, and spicy sweet potato fries Aunt Pennie made that night. They were very tasty! Right after dinner, somehow, Levi found a frog somewhere outside and decided to bring it in to show us. It ended up jumping out of Levis hands at one point, and going behind the fridge, and I finally was able to catch it. I put it back out side immediately so it could go free. 

We played a few rounds of Left Right Center after dinner, then I went to bed because I had to work on Saturday. I went to bed around 9:30 PM. 

Saturday morning, I got up around 4:50 AM, and packed my lunch, but only with some crackers, because it was going to be a short day. We drove down to the Wharf, and went straight out to the boat, because we had enough bait. 

It was foggy in the morning, and showed no signs of getting sunny. It was foggy and cloudy while we started to work, so I did not have to wear sunscreen, then it started to rain so we put on our rain coats. It rained for a while then cleared up for about 20 minutes, then I had to wear a rain coat again, which was pretty annoying. Finally, it stopped for good, and got brighter. The seal was following our boat again today, and got a lot of our Herring. We were not doing to well today, we had a lot of traps with a ton of short lobsters that we were not allowed to keep, and some with just no lobsters at all in them. 

It never got sunny, it was always foggy and cloudy, and we got done around 11:35 AM. We ended up with around 300 Lbs today, not that good for what we have been hauling, but we cant always get 400 or 500 Lbs. 

My Mom dropped Levi off at Aunt Pennies house around 1:00 PM, and we went Kayaking. We went all the way out to the boat that I talked about in the previous blog post, and then came back. We were out kayaking for about 35-40 minutes. It was fun, not as many bugs as last time Aunt Pennie and I went. 

I did a lot more research Saturday night about what laptop that I wanted to get for school this year in Ireland. For dinner, Levi and I had burgers, which were very good, and potato fries Aunt Pennie made for us. I also made a salad with the Aunt Pennie salad setup that included all sorts of stuff including cucumbers, onions, shredded cheese, and Italian dressing. 

-August 10-12, 2017