So I’ve checked 2 more items off of my 101 in 1,001
list.
We went on a 4 night trip to Bar Harbor. I haven’t been there in years and my wife has
never been.
We drove up on Sunday to beautiful 80+ degree sunny
weather. Max went for a swim in the pool,
we ate a small dinner, grabbed some ice cream, then explored the hotel room for
a bit. Later on, we drove the Park Loop
Road. We saw a deer that didn’t seem to
care about us. It walked right across
the road, and stood next to the care less than 20’ away for a few minutes. The view from the hotel was great. We were on the ocean side and could see
seemingly forever.
On Monday, we woke up and went to Café This Way to eat
breakfast. I got the Kit’s burrito which
was enormous. I couldn’t come close to
finishing it. We then went for a walk to
Bar Island. Bar Island is accessible by
walking about 2 hours to either side of high tide. We walked across and explored a bit and
walked back. We of course, got another
ice cream did some shopping and spent even more time at the pool. Max didn’t care about anything but the pool. If we could sleep 8 hours and spend 16 at the
pool, he would be perfectly happy.
Monday night we got the news that our house sale fell
through. We were finally relaxing from
all of the stress that has been going on lately. I took a new job, the house was essentially
sold and we were looking for new housing.
This really put a damper on our vacation.
Tuesday we went back to the same café for breakfast and then
made our way to Thunder Hole. It wasn’t
so thunderous so we walked to Otter Cliffs and back along the ocean. We then went and spent a few hours at the
pool. Max is becoming quite the
swimmer. He’s not able to swim on his
own yet, but he is not far off. We then
grabbed dinner and an ice cream and went to Bass Harbor Headlight to watch the
sunset.
Wednesday we hung around the pool most of the morning and
finally tried a new breakfast place. It
was a nice relaxing day with nothing really planned. We drove down to Northeast Harbor and looked
at all the big houses and went out for dinner… ahem and an ice cream. We then drove to the summit of Cadillac
Mountain for the sunset which was fantastic.
I can check this off my list now.
Thursday we stopped for breakfast at the same place we got
ice cream the day before and it was very good.
We then drove all the way home.
It was a 4 night vacation away from home with the family and
even though the house sale fell through, we still felt a little bit relaxed and
would definitely visit Bar Harbor again.
