The Maine Event

Where to begin?

Saturday mom, dad, Alex, Chris and I spent pretty much all day in the car, driving from VA up to CT. We stopped in Branford for dinner at a great pizza place called Mario's. Mom and I split a white pizza with tomatoes, basil and garlic. Alex and Chris each got a steak and cheese sub and Dad got a meat lover pizza. We shared all around and everything was ridiculously good. We took the left overs and got back in the car to find a hotel. For reasons unknown to anyone on the eastern seaboard, all the hotels were booked up from CT to Massachusetts. We ended up driving all the way into Boston for a place to stay. We landed a sweet suite at a Double Tree for the night and snacked on the fresh cookies from the lobby.
This morning, we got up and headed into Boston to see the USS Constitution and a couple other battleships. After an hour or so, we hit the road and headed up to New Hampshire for lunch at a great little water side restaurant called The Blue Claw. Mom got the fried shrimp, Alex got chicken fingers, Chris got a clam strip sandwich, Dad got long neck steamed clams and I had Prince Edward Island steamed mussels. The seafood was out of this world good. I don't think I've ever had such tasty mussels in my life. The rest of the food was nothing to sneeze at, either. Mom and I each had a Seadog Blueberry Wheat Ale and dad sipped on a Landshark Lager.

Sadly, we finally ate all of the food so we had to leave...

We drove the rest of the way to Maine and checked into our little cottage in Bar Harbor where will be for the next few days.

Adventures to follow...