September 6, 2007 When I told you we were in Ellsworth Maine I didn't mention the RV part we are staying at, it is Patton Pond Camping Resort, and it's a pretty nice place. We don't have paved roads but there is a lot of walking around you can do it looks nice and it has a really pretty pond you could go out in if we were here before the season closed.
Today, Dave and I left at 9am to go back to the Acadia National Park and see the things we missed, because of the camera problems. We told Lee and Vicki we wanted to see the sites then we were going to Bar Harbor to walk around and have lunch. They had said that was there plans too so we would call each other later and get together. Dave and I ended up seeing the sites we missed and were in Bar Harbor by noon. The place was crowded because they had 2 cruise ships in so Dave and I just windowed shopped. Around 1 we stopped at the Opera Cafe and had coffee, very cute place, it's a help yourself to coffee, danishes, chips, soups and different snacks, microwave available, juices, sodas they had all kinds of things. Oh, plus it was an Internet cafe too, on each table was a little note pad that you wrote down what you drank or ate and when you left you paid, very neat. Dave and I did more walking around and window shopping and ended up finding a new lamp for his desk. If gives off more light plus has a sailboat on the base, you would have to see it, it's cool.
Lee called us at 1:30 and said they had just gotten to Bar Harbor and were going to do shopping around and then eat a late lunch/early dinner about 4pm we said we would see them back at the Rv's. We wanted to have lunch then, my fault, they had said the day before a late lunch/early dinner, but since we had gotten going so early that was just a little to late for us. We ended up going to lunch at a place called "Chowdas" which one of the locals had recommended to us once we asked. It was a little out of town and had really good food she had said. Well she was right about the food, but we didn't know we were going to get it for free, if we had we would have ordered the full seafood meals, but we had just ordered 2 lbs of steamed clams and 2 cups of clam chowder. The only reason it was free is because when one of the waitresses had walk by, after cleaning off a table, she dumped some of the stuff off her tray on my back. It wasn't much, will see if the mark comes out of my skort, if not had just said this morning it had stains on it already and I was going to throw it out. Lucky thing, plus it was a great lunch. That's about it for today, we head out again tomorrow.