Great Day at Acadia

Jordan's Pond at Acadia

July 9 – No rush to get up today but I finally rousted Bill as the breakfast with our room ended at 10.  We did have plenty of time and it wasn’t what we expected.  They gave us vouchers for the restaurant in the hotel so we could have one of the 3 specials or whatever from the menu and they would charge us only for any overage.  Bill had the eggs, toast, sausage and juice.  I went with 2 blueberry (Maine blueberries) pancakes, crispy bacon and juice.  Passed on the butter and just enough syrup to make them taste good.   We only had to pay the tip, so it was a really nice perk!  Plus I had a coupon from the internet for the room so we did well all around.

From the top of Cadillac Mountain

Once we loaded the car Bill realized he no longer had the Cumberland Farms card in his pocket that I gave him at breakfast.  Geez!  So we brought Molly out last and drove around to the front and I went back in the restaurant and asked if they found a card and she had it.  Great!  Bill dropped me at Wal-Mart across the street to get cat litter while he went to top off at Cumberland Farms. 

The drive to Bar Harbor was only about 90 minutes.  I had another internet voucher for a pet friendly hotel but when we arrived he said they were all taken so my $79 deal would now be $129 per night so I told him no.  Well, I was feeling a little panic as the rooms here are super pricey.  We sat in their lot for a while looking up other pet friendly hotels.  I found 2 that had rooms for tomorrow but not tonight.  Ugh!  Finally found one that would give us AAA discount and their discount for finding them on the net pet friendly site.  It’s a king room with fridge and microwave.  Molly doesn’t like it as well but she’ll adjust.  The room as a funny smell like dampness.  Or course Bill can’t smell it.  The room was plenty big and clean with extra towels and amenities so it was OK.  The gave Molly a plastic water bowl that says Wonder View Inn with a picture of a moose on it.  I’m sure she was impressed.

After we unloaded we headed into downtown Bar Harbor for lunch at Jordan’s.  I had a lobster

Huge beaver lodge in the Park

roll and Bill had a Canadian BLT, which is a BLT with Canadian bacon.  We checked out a shop next door then headed to Acadia National Park.  We did the drive to the top of Cadillac Mountain and it’s so beautiful looking out at the harbors, boats, islands and towns.  We stopped so many times as each curve brought another beautiful view.  It was really windy up there and Bill had to chase our map once.  After we came down we drove the loop tour which runs along the coast at sea level for a totally different perspective.  We saw the Sandy Beach, which truly is the only actual beach on the whole island.  Oh, where Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park are is Desert Island.  There are quite a few towns/settlements and lots of lobstering.  We could see the floats for the traps all along the coast.  We made several stops at locations that I could get different National Park stamps for my book.  I ended up collecting 6 for the day.  Some were at various visitor centers but others were at nature preserves, campgrounds and park run shops.

Jagged rock coast

We were getting hungry again so headed on into Bar Harbor and there were so many people and cars and no place to park that we decided to head away from the crowd.  I found a recommended Lobster pound on the other side of the island so we headed

Different jagged rock coast

there after checking in on Molly and giving her some dinner.   It was OK.  Bill had a crab cake sandwich that totally surprised me.  I went with steamed mussels that were delicious, since I had my lobster for lunch today.  Since we didn’t over eat we stopped for ice cream.  Now that was really delicious and we should have asked about the portions before ordering medium.  Small would have been just fine.  It was cooling down fast outside and I didn’t bring a jacket so we ate in the car then headed back to the room.  Molly had adjusted to her new room!

We didn’t get home til 8:30 so after watching “Suits” I got my shower while Bill read.  Finally am caught up on typing so can head on to bed.