Our Mini-Vacation

We just got in from our mini-vacation to Maine yesterday, and we had a great time! I uploaded the pictures to Shutterfly, so if you want to see them, send me an e-mail so I can send you the album. They're also on Facebook if anyone wants to look at them there.

We arrived at the Carriage House at about 5:30 on Sunday evening.

It was great to get back there! Marcia, the owner, greeted us with big hugs and brought us up to our room. It was nice to stay in the same room as we were in before when we were there for our honeymoon.

We went out to dinner at a place called Foxy's.

It was kind of pricy, but the food was REALLY good! So it made it worth it.

Plus, the weather was beautiful, so we sat out on the deck and enjoyed our dinner there.

Our waitress was not the most personable, but she was quick with our food and everything, so we couldn't complain.

After dinner, we went back to the bed and breakfast and walked the beach. It's a rocky coast there, so there aren't any places to go swimming really, which was fine, because it was too cool to go in the water most of the trip. Not a complaint though! It was nice wearing a long sleeved teeshirt on Saturday!

Saturday morning we had breakfast at the B&B. She always makes the best breakfasts! We also hung out with Jimmy, the resident beagel.

Then we headed out to Acadia National Park for the morning to do a little hiking around on the carriage trails. They are relatively flat roads that you can walk and/or bike on, and they go all around in the woods. There is something like 49 miles of these roads, and no cars are allowed on them. They are called carriage roads because they were used only for horse drawn carriages.
That pretty much does it for all of the pictures I have. But after hiking around in Acadia, we went for a late lunch in Bar Harbor, and ate at this great little hole in the wall place called the Thirsty Whale. Good food, and even better prices, which was nice. It was a small place, not very wide at all, but long. While we were eating, it started POURING! I was on a mission to get some salt water taffy, but we couldn't find any, so I didn't get any, and we wanted to get back to the shuttle to get to our car anyway. We did that, and then it took us TWO HOURS to get from Bar Harbor to Searsport - a trip that should have taken only one hour! That was quite frustrating, but at least we didn't have to stop for food or anything. We got back to the B&B and got dried off. We didn't get any dinner until about 8:30, but by then, EVERYTHING is closed in Searsport, so we had to get Chinese food from the only open restaurant we could find! We didn't have plates or silverware, so we just got chicken fingers and crab rangoons, but they were good. We even got to watch our favorite TV show while we ate back at the B&B, since we weren't out like we thought we might be!

Sunday morning we packed up and headed out just after breakfast. We said our goodbyes,

Then headed south to go to Freeport, stop at L.L. Bean, then continue our trip the rest of the way home.

It is definitely nice to be back home, I missed our pets tremendously! And, it was nice to sleep in our own bed again too. I was quite sleepy! I didn't get up until around 8am this morning!

Tonight I'm going to an open house at NHTI to learn more about their Medical Transcription program. I'm hoping to be able to work from home once the baby comes, but I know I won't finish the program fast enough. I'm hoping we will have enough stored up though, so that I can finish up the program, then start working.