Aliens Attack!

Written by guest blogger Nicky.


After spending Sunday in Portland -- where we toured the oldest cemetary in the city, climbed the Portland Observatory, and visited Maine Meade Works -- we headed to New Hampshire and the White Mountain National Forest on Monday.

The Portland Observatory (it observes ships, not the stars).

The view from the observatory.

Mead.

After an afternoon of hiking, we set up camp outside the park and built a nice little camp fire (Gaby's first of the trip, despite all the camping she's been doing).

Earlier in the day, Gaby had been talking about a series of books that she had read in which aliens come to earth and make first contact with people on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. As we were sitting around the fire, she then went on to say that if she had one wish, it would be that before she dies we discover definitive proof of life on another planet.

Nicky started the fire and kept it going.

Five minutes later, we started to notice an interesting phenomenon in the night sky to our east. Over the hills, the sky started to light up with a series of flashes. Our first thought was lightning, but there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Then we thought it might be fireworks off in the distance, but the flashes went on for way too long. Finally, we determined that the only possible explanation was that Gaby's wish was coming true, and the aliens had arrived. The sky was still lighting up when we went to bed a little after midnight, but the mystery only deepend when we started to hear helicopters circling overhead. I can only assume that Will Smith was called in to control the situation.