Did Anybody Say Rearview Mirror?

Hope everyone enjoyed the 4th - here's wishing all of our friends and family a happy kick-off to the summer; may the days be sunny and spirits high. A special wish to Alexia for continued progress and bright and happy days... you and your family are an inspiration to us all.



We spent the majority of the day yesterday in Bar Harbor. After many back and forths of whether we should take the shuttle service downtown or travel Beast-style, we opted for the latter. We knew it was risky due to high traffic and limited RV parking, but decided to brave it. It all would have been so successful if we (and when I say we I mean Evan) hadn't knocked the rear-view mirror off of a parked RV as we searched for parking. It was quite a bang and so far on this trip it's the only thing that has completely silenced the kids other than sleep. Our RV was unharmed but its driver became a touch tense as he beautifully steered the Beast to its spot.




We did what any New Yorker would do and left an apologetic note with our phone number. We haven't heard from him/her. Weird, huh? Sincere apologies all around.

Bar Harbor is a great town with great inns - lots of shops (Evan's favorite) and multiple ice cream stores (which helped with the tension). Village Green was festive with a pops concert and the harbor equally so with entertainment, ships, boats, etc. At low tide the islands across from BH are walkable - but you only have 90 minutes to explore otherwise you're waiting 6 hours for the next tide change.




Ate at a great restaurant/pub called MacKays that offered one of the best dish of mussels we've ever had (tho if we were w/o kids, we would've eaten at Havana.) It was here that we realized Michael can no longer order off of the kid's menu (Cameron stopped years ago) because the portion of steak he received was laughable.





Cameron happily took pictures of all the Hancock streets we encountered: street, lane, road... Mr. Illium would be so happy. (According to Cam, Hancock was the only one who signed the D of I on July 4th - everyone else signed it some time in August. Now I didn't Google this to see if he is correct, so please refrain from commenting if this is inaccurate!)

The fireworks were colorful (what else does one say about fireworks? ) and the red, white and blue day was a great one. The rearview mirror mishap became a distant memory... AND we beat the shuttle back to camp.