Speidel Siblings

So it is already June! I can't believe it. I let May completely go by without posting a thing. My sister Doree came to visit at the end of April- mostly to see little Nathan, although she claims she wanted to see me too. We made sure to do one thing a day. We went to the arboretum for a picnic, to the zoo to see the elephants especially and a funny little orangutan that was sitting in the middle of a cable wire with his butt to us and only people underneath; to the Amish market for some fresh watermelon and Philly Cheese Steaks, and to Arundel Mills to do some outlet shopping of course. We also did a lot of baking and movie watching- it was quite a fun time! Sister time is the best!
My brother Jake and his family moved back to Maine after being in Guam for a year and a half, so of course Nathan and I had to take a trip to see them. Cousin Riley (just turned 3) was so excited to see Baby Nathan (BN as Jake calls him). She would always comment on his "baby hands" "baby feet" "baby nose" and baby everything. She even helped feed him and every morning would come in to our room and lay next to him. She pushed him in his new umbrella stroller, until she decided she would rather push her own cabbage patch doll. Jake put Nate's hair in a mohawk and Riley keep yelling at him to put it down- she doesn't like change. We saw some beautiful lighthouses and New England scenery. We also got homemade ice cream everyday and went to the beach. Nate loved eating and squishing the sand, but we didn't dare go in the water because it was too cold. Sanford is definitely out in the country and I enjoyed going to sleep while listening to the chirping of the bugs. I also enjoyed the Speidel's new TiVo- quite an awesome invention. Someday we'll get one. I guess we should work on getting a house first. It was really nice having all the space that goes along with a house. What a concept to have more than 1 room! I felt like I was living in the lap of luxury.
My dad and brother took us to the little Sanford airport. Airforce One actually flies into it when the Bushes come to stay in their Maine beach house. My dad got Nate a shirt that said, "My grandpa's airplane is faster than your grandpa's airplane" which of course he had to wear to the airport. We did have an unfortunate event that happened on the trip. My brother wanted to show me the PBY (a huge and very old airplane built for WW2 that he flew from Alaska). He had injured his shoulder lifting weights and was told to be careful with it, but of course as he was climbing on top of the PBY, he fell through a hatch that was on top of the plane and tried to catch himself with is bad arm. In the process, he dislocated his shoulder. It took the EMT's 3 hours to build ramps up to the airplane to transport him off of it. He was in such pain and I felt so bad for him. His arm finally went back into place after he was on morphine and his muscle was able to relax. Needless to say, that put a damper on the trip. He is doing better though, but might have surgery for it to properly heal. Poor guy!