Lobsters and Liquor....It's the 4th of July!

My parents came up to visit for the 4th of July! I cried when I hugged them. The weight of how much work a graduate degree really requires has started to set in, so to let loose with my family was a much needed release. We spent the weekend at my aunt and uncle's house swimming, eating, drinking, singing, and planning a wedding! The whole weekend is just a blur of happy moments: planning wedding stuff on the porch with my mom and aunt; my mom, Kurt and I played marco polo in the pool and it cracked us up the entire time; Kurt playing guitar by the fire, Sparklers to celebrate my aunt's birthday (you can see her enjoying them in the picture below)....the list could go on and on.


Then I had a hectic couple of days where I drove back to Bangor to do the routine sampling and then rushed back down to go to a Kruger Brothers Concert at the Deertrees theatre with everyone! Sampling went later into the day than I had expected, so I didn't have time to stop at home to get a shower. Instead, Kurt and I snuck into a campground so I could shower! The concert was amazing. It was such a wonderful experience to introduce Kurt and my parents to the Kruger Brothers' music, and to do it as a fun Maine experience. Deertrees theatre looks like an old barn stuck in the middle of the woods, but it has amazing acoustics and makes for a very cool concert enviornment. We even got them to take a request! They said that they never do a request, but with a special plea from my aunt and I they played "Take me in your arms" just for us!

It was so hard to say goodbye to my mom, dad, aunt and uncle. I am a very lucky woman to be surrounded by a family that can revive her soul just when she needs it most.