As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are pretty well satiated when it comes to food. But, I wanted to include a couple of shots of the French food we consumed at last night's dinner. This was the appetizer. It was a cold lobster and scallop thing with a cauliflower puree mixed in with the lettuce. Pretty good.
Bubby enjoyed her carmelized onion and goat cheese tart, and I had some escargot. She even tried one of those, but later reported that it did not play well with the other food she had consumed (sounds like psychosomatic indigestion to me).
Our waitress asked if we were celebrating on the cruise, and Bubb spilled the beans. Of course, we had to have a really nice looking, but not particularly tasty, cake and a lovely rendition of "I Love You Truly" by the wait-staff. The music was nice, and brought a tear to Bubby's eye.
Upon returning to our room, we found this small animal near our pillows. Don't know what s/he is, so you can draw your own conclusions.
On Saturday morning, we landed in Bar Harbor, Maine. In typical Eves-Traveling-mode, we immediately started walking around and found a grocery store. Bubby engaged a man there and got the straight scoop on who has the best chowdah in town. He recommended a place called Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. To get there, we rode a free shuttle service, partially financed by LL Bean, that leaves from the village green at Bar Harbor and goes all over the park. We rode to the end of the Jordan Pond line, just because it was fun, and free.
This is the Lodge at Jordan Pond. We arrived without incident and were promptly seated for lunch.
On the recommendation of our friend from the grocery store, we ordered seafood chowdah and popovers. The chowdah was really, really good, and loaded with "things". The star of the meal, however, was the popovers. Bubby, who knew nothing about New England popovers was in heaven because you eat them with a little butter and jam and they are served piping hot! We ate the two (each) that came with the meal and decided that we could bear the shame of eating one more each. Bubby is interested in trying these at home and even bought a cook book that contained a recipe. You will probably all be the beneficiaries of our popover experience in the near future.
Following our Jordan Pond experience, we rode the shuttle to Sand Beach and Northeast Harbor. I took this photo of the boats in the harbor and just as I was rushing back to our departing shuttle, our friend from the grocery store walked up! He was taking some guests out on his sailboat, and had, in fact been buying the ingredients for their picnic lunch when we first met. We thanked him profusely for the tip, and rode the shuttle bus back to Bar Harbor.
I did get one photo of Bubby standing outside a stately home on the seashore walk. We seem to spend a lot of time looking at stately homes during our travels.
Buboppy
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