Acadia: Day 2 - Sunday August 12, 2018

This morning we had breakfast at the hotel after “sleeping in” until 8am.  Then we drove into Bar Harbor to get groceries and hydrogen peroxide for Grant’s ear.  From there we finally entered the park and headed to the Hull Center Visitor Center to pay for an annual pass ($80 instead of $30 just to get into Acadia) and to get our passbooks stamped and to buy magnets and hat pins.  It was about 10:30 when we arrive at the visitor’s center and it was crowded!

From there, we opted to take the Park Loop Road (you can only drive clockwise) down to Sand Beach and from there we hiked a pretty challenging hike to The Beehive and The Bowl (we were just southeast of Bar Harbor at this point).  

While we were on the hike, my mom texted that Dad made it on his run (inside but nevertheless, it counted!) I started crying and immediately felt better.  It was very humid so the hike was very hard and I was really sweaty but it was fun – lots of metal bars and ladders to get up but interesting and very pretty views from the top.  

At the top we ate a meal of pepperoni on Ritz crackers with cream cheese – a trick Ryan learned in June on her Appalachian Trail hike.  It was good!  We also threw back some red grapes and then moved onto the next stop.

We continued driving clockwise through Northeast Harbor then back towards the motel (The Best Western on State Hwy 3 (we love it).  We played 18 holes of mini golf at Pirate’s Cove which was just ½ mile or so east of our motel.  It was really fun.  Nick finished first, then Ryan, then me, then Grant. 

Then we headed back to the motel and dropped the kids off and Nick and I headed out in search of a gas station, beer and wine.  We stopped for gas and I bought a bottle of Abstract from a “roadside” wine store.  We then drove back into town and got beer at the grocery store and then drove back to the motel.

We chilled by the firepit (which is right outside of our room) and Nick and Grant played catch for a bit. 

After we cleaned up (and I lost 10,000 more hairs in the shower) we drove into town and had dinner at Side Street Café.  It was good but Grant and I both ordered crab cakes and they weren’t very good.  From there, we walked around town a bit and got very average ice cream from a very crowded ice cream store on Main Street.  I grabbed a pair of hiking socks from an outdoor store then we drove back to the motel and I essentially passed out at 9pm. 

It was a relief to know that my dad ran and that he seemed to be doing better today.