Acadia National Park - Day 5

Another slow day around here catching up on work. Our RV spot is so shaded that it seems pretty dark all morning and that, coupled with a later than usual bed time, kept the kids in bed until almost 10:00. I woke up at 7:00. When I walk in there, I find they are actually watching Netflix on their Kindles and Brady is just laying there.

After breakfast and cleaning up the potato soup dishes from the night before, I start getting everything ready to drive over to the dump station because the grey tank is full and the kitchen sink is starting to back up.

This doesn't really sound like a big deal, and it's not, but it is still a pain in the butt. You have to move everything out of the way that will get crushed by one of the four slide-outs. This includes a box of books, a rug in the kitchen area, a tower fan in the kids' room, and a few other things hanging on the walls. You have to put down the roof antenna, close all the doors, turn off the lights and air conditioner, and actually put in the slides. Then, outside, you have to hook up the truck to the fifth wheel, raise up the leveling legs, stow away the wheel chocks, and unhook the water hose and power cord. There are probably other things I can't remember right now.

After driving slowly over to the little dump station, you wait there for ten minutes while everything pours down the drain, and then wash everything off and stow away the drain hose. Then, drive back to our spot and undo everything you did above. Like I said, not hard, but a pain. I think it took about an hour and a half.

The kids have been bugging us to go to this ice cream shop right next to the park called Udder Heaven (www.udderheaven.com). Pretty clever name, I thought. We tried to go last night, but they closed at 8:00 and it was after 8:30. The shop is actually two businesses down from the park on the main road, but there is another private road from inside the park to the back of the shop that makes it feel like we are special somehow. I get a heath ice cream and all three kids get cookie dough. For the first time on this trip, I think, I get to say that, sadly, it wasn't very good. Mine was OK, but the cookie dough ice cream had loads of these chocolate chunks, very little cookie dough, and, actually, little ice cream as well. It was kind of like eating broken up chocolate bars with a little ice cream on top. It looked good, but made you feel sick quickly. On the bright side, since we ate this so late in the afternoon, we just snacked for dinner!

They also had this cow thing outside that you could actually milk into a bucket, but it was just water...I think.