Tuesday, July 2

After another evening of good sleeping aided by cool temperatures and soft rain showers, we started our day with peanut butter & chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon...a breakfast of champions! While I prepared breakfast, Jason rode the bus to the airport and picked up a rental car. He came rolling back to camp in style in a 2-door, bronze, 2012 Fiat—the extreme opposite of the 31' motorhome we are accustomed to! Brooke and I took over the back seat as I didn't even want to witness Jake's attempt to get into the backseat of it. The best quote describing the car was my dad's “it looks like a pregnant roller skate.” It was a cool, drizzly day so we found some excursions that would accommodate the less than desirable weather conditions. We left the Bar Harbor area and headed to the little town of Prospect, Maine. Prospect has a bridge that was completed in 2006, and has an observatory built into one of the supporting towers of the suspension bridge. The bridge itself is quite pretty, in addition the 50 second elevator trip to the top of the 420' tower lead to a panoramic view of the river and surrounding area below. It is the only structure of its kind in the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere and holds the title of the tallest bridge observatory in the world. At the base of the bridge is Fort Knox. The fort, which is built from granite was completed in 1869 after 25 years of construction. The fort was open for all visitors to walk and climb throughout. Sample living quarters were set up, along with cannons and cannon balls complete with instructions on how to fire a cannon for all to read and take in. It was an impressive structure and interesting piece of history. The next thing on our agenda could not be completed much to our disappointment, a restaurant that our friend recommended was supposed to our lunch time destination, until we looked online and found out that it is closed on Tuesdays...seriously? As an alternative we stopped at a local joing called MacLeods. Jason and I had Penobscot River Reubens, which consisted of haddock, cole slaw and swiss cheese. They were delicious! The kids stuck with more traditional fare...a burger and pizza. Since the weather was still not good for much, we took a drive down a peninsula in the area to a town called Brooklin. In Brooklin we found a beach area where the tide was out. We spent some time walking and exploring the shore finding all sorts of shells. The evening hours were spent eating dinner and relaxing before we took a dusk tour of the area looking for a bull moose...a creature we have yet to see on our various trips. Night time was spent playing cards before turning in for the night, and praying for nicer weather for Wednesday!