Sorry for the lag in photos lately. My camera is functioning at the moment but it will not let me upload photos to my computer because I am assuming water got into the port and damaged it. I will continue to try to upload photos from friends' cameras for the time being.

Tonight I went to the Cumberland Fair with Matt and Amy and the girls. In Maine, going to a country fair in the fall is a must and I hadn't been to any yet so the timing was perfect. I started by partaking of some hot sausage, kettle corn, cotton candy, and a dough boy--you know, the essentials. Next we checked out some of the 4-H exhibits and ended the evening with watching the girls go on the rides.
I think I had just as good a time watching the girls laugh, giggle, and scream on the rides as I would if I were on them myself!

As of this coming Sunday I will have lived here for exactly a month. I am amazed at how much of a better person I am now that I am here......for so many reasons. I think one of the biggest reasons is I am re-learning how to love people and to be loved. I graduated from college a very scared, bitter, and resentful person. Even as I look at my graduation pictures and I see someone who is not really smiling on the inside. This is the first picture I have seen of myself in months where I look genuinely happy! It's a good feeling.........a very good feeling.

And just in case you were wondering, M wanted Matt to take a picture of us because she thought it was pretty special that we were both wearing purple (: