Oh, the joy of early morning flights!
From the title it’s easy to guess--Lyana and Robert went to Maine! We try to celebrate our wedding anniversary by getting away, even for a super quick time. This time, we chose to go to Bangor, Maine--the place close to the famous Acadia National Park. Our friends, the Whites, helped us with watching the kids, and so we were off for an adventure on Saturday morning!
Once we got to Bangor, it felt like we landed in a different country because of how cold it felt!! We had to stand in line outside in the wind to get our shuttle to the car rental place. It turned out that the office was like 10 min drive from the airport which is not what it said when I booked it. Apparently, a lot of people were just as confused as we were, the lines were loong but finally we got our tiny sparkly red car--Chevy Spark! It turned out to be one of Robert’s favorite cars to drive:) It looks sunny on the picture below, but it was not taken on the first day of our stay there.
We drove from Bangor all the way to Tremont on the edge of Mt Desert Island.
Here is our little two story house we had all to ourselves, overlooking the harbor in a very quiet village of Tremont.
That evening was September 14th, our actually anniversary! So we drove to Bar Harbor to celebrate.
Our fancy dinner on this freezing windy night was at Galyn’s. We had lots of seafood and a beautiful atmosphere:) EIGHTEEN Years!! WOOHOO!!
In the morning, we lazily got up, ate whatever we had picked up at the grocery store and drove to the Acadia National Park. The park is drivable around the perimeter, in many places it’s only a one direction flow. First of all, we drove to Cadillac Mt. for the most glorious views!
Then we followed the road pass the Sand Beach, to the Thunder Hole parking lot for some sea view and relaxing by the water.
I love this man!!
We continued our drive and stopped for a very late lunch at the famous Jordan Pond House for some popovers and sandwiches. We walked along the trail by the Jordan Pond.
And then we hiked along a 4 mile trail to see the carriage roads (they used horses on those trails) and cobblestone Rockefeller bridges.
Then we rushed back towards the house where we were staying to see the the sunset at the Bass Harbor Lighthouse nearby, but we practically missed it...although as you can tell, the cloud was covering the sun anyway...
Then we drove to Beale’s Lobster place for some lobster rolls!
Man, oh man....this is my new favorite thing to eat. I just LOVED it!! Every garlicky ounce of it!
Robert had an actual lobster this first night (yes, I say the first night because we went back to this place again our last evening here:)).
On Monday morning, we set out on a short easy walk at the Wonderland Trail. It was an easy out and back trail to the beach. Good warm up for our longer wooded trail later that morning.
We drove a bit further north of the island towards Pretty Marsh, then found the beginning of the Deep Woods trail at the Blagden Preserve. It was tricky to find but it turned out to be a beautiful place for a secluded hike!
The prize for the hike was this!
Yes, a set of red Adirondack chairs for a relaxing break by the ocean to watch the seals and birds...and kiss.
For lunch we drove to another famous lobster place called Thurston’s Lobster Pound in Barnard.
But guess what!!! It was only our second favorite:) Still delicious though!! YUM!
In the afternoon, we came back to our house area as we were taking a lobster boat tour that afternoon and the boat was leaving practically across the street from our house.
It was a very windy and cold outing, so we were glad we had our layers!
We learned SO MUCH about the history of the area and the little islands and families who “discovered” this place as well as about the culture of this area of Maine and lots of information about lobster fishing!
We saw A LOT of seals too! And the views were marvelous! I just don’t know if we can see any seals in this picture:)
Maybe this one? Well, I see one head:)
And our boat caught some lobsters.
Is this one a keeper? legally?:)
I definitely recommend taking a lobster boat tour like this, Island Cruises, especially away from a very touristy area in Bar Harbor (we were in a much quieter area here). I am not paid to advertise, just liked the tour.
On Tuesday morning, we had to check out from our house and drive to Bar Harbor. We walked around for quite a bit, observing all the cruise passengers from the cruise ships docked at Bar Harbor that day and patting ourselves on the back about choosing to stay further away from the crowds. We had a wonderful lunch and then drove to the airport.
Our plane was a bit delayed, so we missed our connection in LaGuardia (apparently it’s our thing now) but we still made it to the later flight to Raleigh, yay! We were happy to see our kids (Katya could drive now so she took everyone home and they put themselves to bed)!
And here is to another year of adventures!
Lyana.
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