October 5, 2007 I guess I should update my blog especially after I bitched at my nephew for not updating his.
We are back in the USA, we are now in Ellsworth, Maine and will be here until Sunday morning. When we went thru the border this time they boarded the coach and this time only took the last 2 frozen chicken breasts that we had. When Lee and Vicki went thru they boarded their coach too and took their lemons, so I'm sure this time it was chicken fajitas instead of steak fajitas like last time.
Let me do a quick recap since I last wrote.
Last Sunday we got back into Canada at St. Andrews, beautiful place, wouldn't mine going back there again. In the afternoon we drove into St. Stephen to do some shopping and look around. Monday morning we went to Ministers Island Historic Site, we drove across "the bar" at low tide to see the summer residence of the visionary railway builder Sir William Van Horne. You can only drive your car over when the tide is low, when we went that was between 9am and 1pm, after that when the tide comes back in the road that you drove over is 18 feet under water. It was an interesting trip to make, it just doesn't have enough history, they would be better off selling the island to a private company and I'm sure they could make a great resort out of it, at least for the months of May thru September. At one time is was a hunting lodge, but it would be better as a resort. When we got back from that Vicki, Lee, Ava, and Fleetwood showed up, we were just leaving (Dave, Valley and I) for a walk so we went ahead and left because we knew they needed time to setup and get settled in.
Tuesday, we all went Whale watching at 1:30pm, which was great. We saw Fin Whales, Humpback Wales, Minke Whales, Porpoises, and seals. We were out there until 5:30pm then we rushed to a dinner reservation we had at the Rossmount Inn, not a cheap dinner but a great one.
Wednesday, since we were leaving Thursday, I did up all the laundry and we got things ready for travelling. In the afternoon Dave and I drove back to St. Steven to visit the chocolate factory. St. Stephen is famous for their chocolate, so since we were there we at least should visit what the towns are famous for, as long as they don't cost too much. It was a great tour, actually history, because we didn't get to see the factory, because it has moved now and it's only opened to the public 1 week out of the year, and that's the chocolate week in May. The history was neat to hear plus every corner you turned they had a plate of chocolate out, a big variety. They actually still have 4 women that hand roll the chocolate, just like in the I Love Lucy Show, very neat. That night it was nice enough to have a fire outside of our coaches, great day, a little foggy all day but still a nice day.
Thursday we got on the road at 9am, we really thought about staying because the fog was gone and very sunny and warm, but we had to get going.
That's it for the last 4 days, I'm all caught up.
Today we went to the Acadia National Park, the temp. was 78 degrees and hardly any wind, we have been so lucky with the weather. It's hard to explain the sites that we are seeing, it really is breath taking, pictures couldn't even do it justice but when we post them we try.
In the afternoon after on picnic lunch Dave's camera got condensation on the lens so we took off to Bar Harbor to see if they had a camera shop to fix it. Lee, Vicki and Ava were in their car so they kept going thru the National Park. Bar Harbor didn't have a camera shop, but boy what a place, we decided that tomorrow we are going back there just to walk around and window shop, yuck, mainly just to walk around and check things out. We ended up stopping at a Wal-Mart and buying a new camera on the way back to the coach. With all the sites we are seeing anyway, we really should have a back up camera.