I had survived four weeks of summer camp away from my family. My reward? My mom and dad surprised me with a week long vacation in a little "Heaven on Earth." It definitely put New England at the top of my list of favorite places to visit.

I was beyond excited. When we got settled in our cabin and I had taken a shower in a real shower, we walked out to the lake. It was amazing and breathtaking. Just like at my camp, there was a dock with two speedboats for water-skiing, knee-boarding, wake-boarding, or tubing. The water was like glass. The resort was enormous!

In the evenings, I would go to the kid's camp they had where they served us dinner and let us play on the big playground behind the lodge. Sometimes, we went in the big red-hall where we could play ping pong, basketball, pool, and video games. It was the first time I got to see a TV in about a month. While I was in this program, my parents would get to go to dinner alone.

Almost everyday we were there, I went swimming in the lake. However, we had to be super safe because there was a big rock right off the beach where leeches liked to live and climb. If you swam over to the dock where the boats were, there were sometimes electric eels that swam around. I swam right next to one without even noticing, until my mom told me. I still have the heebie-jeebies from it. We also took advantage of all the water sports. My mom and dad would water-ski and I would knee-board and go tubing. It was amazing.

One of the days, we went farther into the resort and found an outside dining area where they served breakfast everyday. They made the most delicious blueberry pancakes. We were in Maine after all! After the best breakfast I had ever had in my entire life, my parents rented a speed boat for the day. We took it out and explored what felt like the entire lake. A tube came with the boat, so I jumped at the chance and my parents towed the tube around and around and around until I was water-logged.

A year or two after this vacation, we went back and celebrated my twelfth birthday with some family friends. I wanted to live there. I was never bored, and if I had the chance, I'd go back in a heartbeat.

If you are looking for an amazing, relaxing place to vacation, Migis Lodge in Casco, Maine is the place to go!

"Luxury meets Rustic." -Jodi Grundig