Acadia: Day 3 - Monday August 13, 2018

Today has been GREAT!  We slept late (I slept from 9pm until 8am and decided to not take all of my stupid vitamins that Grant’s nutritionist had recommended (he saw a nutritionist a few weeks back who tested him for a million things to see if he was having sensitivities to anything that would cause his tics to get worse.  Then he put Grant on a crazy vitamin regimen and told me I should be taking zinc and vitamin A but it was giving me a really bad headache).

We had breakfast then decided to tackle the Western side of Mount Desert Island (the name of the entire island on which Bar Harbor is located and on which is most of Acadia National Park).  We drove down Hwy 102 and stopped at Echo Lake Beach. 

We took a very convoluted hike up to the summit of Beech Mountain (there was a lookout tower at the top) and then found our way back to the car, inadvertently hiking a little more than 4 miles (it was steep going up!). 

Once we got back to the car, we walked over to Echo Lake Beach (which was beautiful) and had another picnic of pepperoni sandwiches.  We put our hands and feet in the lake (it was strange because on your had, the water felt hot but on Ryan’s feet, she said it was freezing.)

At this point it was around 1:30pm.  So we got back in the car and drove the clockwise loop down through Southwest Harbor, then through the Seawall campgrounds, around to Seal Cove and up past Pretty Marsh.

We drove back to the main entrance so we could take pictures in front of the sign (the sign wasn’t very special but it did the trick). 

From there we stopped at Udderly Heaven for ice cream (Grant milked a cow) The ice cream store was just east and across the street from our motel). Then we went home and sat outside/played catch.

It’s now 5:15 and we’re driving to The Travelin’ Lobster for dinner.  It’s a lobster “shack” so we’ll see.  More later…

Dinner was a lot of fun.  Nick ordered a hot buttered lobster roll and the kids and I ordered crab rolls.  The kids thought the food was so-so, as did I but Nick loved his lobster roll.  We ate outside and it was a nice evening.  

Afterwards we returned to the motel for smores in front of the fire circle.  The kids loved doing that.   

After a little bit of playing catch, packing and cleaning up, Ryan and I settled on the Food Network for a kids’ cooking competition followed by Reality Bites Cupcakes, which was really good.

Then it was off to bed.