Monday 7/22

Got an awesome night of sleep and a clean shower. Took off for Bar Harbor around 10:30. The route from Bangor to Bar Harbor is kind of like Door County. There are a lot of slowpokes not even going the speed limit when it’s 45. Probably tourist gawkers. I’d be super annoyed if I had to drive this regularly but, being a tourist gawker, it was ok.

Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound

Me.

Andy.

Lobsters.

We had our first lobster at the Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound. While waiting for it to be cooked, we youtubed how to eat a lobster because we didn't really know what we were supposed to do with these things. It turned out pretty well. It was amazing to get full off of just lobster. Unfortunately our hands stunk like lobster after like 4 washings, purell, and wet wipes but it did go away! We learned that they are called lobster pounds because they’re kind of like dog pounds, where they hold a bunch of lobsters until right before they are eaten. Except we don’t eat the dogs at dog pounds. This is a horrible description!

Andy in the hammock. Tiny campsite.

Then we headed to Bar Harbor and stopped at our campground called Hadley’s Point. We had a decent site but it was right across from the playground which was a little loud, just from normal kid noise. It was an absolutely perfect day weather wise – a little overcast mid 70s. We got set up and went to Bar Harbor. Traffic was pretty crazy. We were going down one road, I think West St, and heard a crash behind us and realized someone took off the side mirror of a parked car. Later we saw the mirror on that car’s windshield with a note.

Our first agenda item was to go to the West Street Hotel to check out rooms for the reunion. We were helped by a nice guy named Brian who showed us some rooms. We had a drink at Paddy’s, which is the bar right below the West Street Hotel and walked around Bar Harbor. It is a very cute town with lots of little shops and restaurants. We asked Brian and someone at Paddy’s about food allergies since Andy’s mom has a shellfish allergy and Brian said that most restaurants are very accommodating, even giving away free food sometimes to people with allergies. The woman at Paddy’s said they will cook food on aluminum foil, so it is not on the grill that fish was on.

Then we headed over to the Atlantic Brewery which was out of town a bit kind of by our hotel. It is a nice place. They have a tour which we didn’t do but we did the tasting. It was cool, because someone explains the different beers. Then we spent a bunch of money on merchandise and beer and headed to the restaurant connected to it called Mainely Meats. There we had a sampler meal that we shared. They have good beer. Then we got some ice cream and went back to the camp site. Took a little walk to Hadley's Point to see an amazing sunset and sat around the fire. Perfect day.