Bowling!!

Hello Mom!  Still here in Maine, seeing and doing new and different things!

Today we helped Michele (our host mom) make lunch for everyone!  We made Chicken Salad sandwiches and some sliced peaches!  It was TASTY!  After lunch we went BOWLING!

Bowling is a pretty popular American leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball.  It's this big, heavy, solid ball with three holes drilled on the top to stick your fingers in.  

The target is to knock over these 10 pins at the end of this looong hallway, type thing.  

We watched mostly - and helped keep score of course!  Ha Ha!

They have to wear these real funny looking shoes while they play.  I guess it's to protect the wooden bowling lane surface or something like that.  

We thought the shoes made a comfy spot to sit and watch the game! 

Guess what we are doing next??  

We are going to the MOVIES!  Woohoo!!!

See you later, Mom!  Love ya!

Our New Host Home!

Hi Mom!  We have been having great fun just enjoying nature and the beauty of western Maine!  One of our favorite things to do is sit out on the front porch and just watch nature!  Michele and Aaron, our hosts, have a house here in West Newfield on 30 acres of land!  Their house is set back from the road down this looong drive way!

Another thing we enjoying doing is sitting on the front porch swing!  Weeeeeeeeeeee!  It's so nice just to sit and listen to the birds and smell the fresh air!  Maine has some of the freshest and cleanest air in the United States!  It sure is much better than being inside that box when we were traveling here!  Hehehehee!

Michele showed us around and we looked at some of her pretty flowers and bushes.  Did you know that Maine is known for their abundance of wild blueberries??  We LOVE blueberries!  Maine produces 25% of all lowbush blueberries in North America.  It isn't time to pick and eat them yet but we were happy just enjoying the other vegetation that surrounded us.

Boy, we were thirsty after all the nature stuff, so Michele shared with us one of America's favorite beverages: Coca Cola!  It took a little effort but we were able to manage getting some good gulps of the carbonated delight known to most as Coke.  We think we are going to like our visit here....as long as they keep supplying us with this tasty drink!  

We Made IT!

Wow!  What a long journey to the USA but we are here and it's amazing!  

We have landed in a little town called West Newfield in the state of Maine.  We are staying with Michele and Aaron and their family!  This is going to be great fun!  But first, we want to tell you what we have learned about where we are!!

Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.

As for where we are in Maine....Newfield is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,328 at the 2000 census. Home to Willowbrook Museum Village, Newfield is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford metropolitan statistical area.  West Newfield is a populated place located in York County at latitude 43.644 and longitude -70.924.  The elevation is 518 feet.  York County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).

Newfield was part of the large tract sold on November 28, 1668 by Newichawannock Indian Chief Sunday (or Wesumbe) to Francis Small, a Kittery trader. The price was two large Indian blankets, two gallons of rum, two pounds of gunpowder, four pounds of musket balls and twenty strings of beads. The township was surveyed and first settled as Washington Plantation in 1778. A number of settlers had been soldiers in the Revolutionary War. It was incorporated as Newfield on February 25, 1794, and by 1859, the population was 1,418.

The Little Ossipee River runs through Newfield village and once provided water power to operate two gristmills, two lumber mills, a barrel stave mill, a shook mill, a planing mill and a carding mill. West Newfield (specifically where we are at) had a sawmill, gristmill and stave mill. There was an attempt in the community to mine silver and iron, but it was not profitable. By 1880, the population was 995. Newfield would be heavily damaged by the Great Fires of 1947.

Check out additional info here if you want!

We are happy, safe, and will share what we learn and see soon!

Thank you for letting us visit Maine, USA!!!