We are still having a wonderful time in Maine. The weather here has been perfect. Mostly 77 degree days and 65 degrees at night.
On Sunday, we drove to Rockland, Maine to attend the 64th Annual Maine Lobster Festival. The traffic getting there was unbelievable. Bumper to bumper for 30 miles at one point. One thing we've learned is that you do not want to take Rt 1 or the Interstate on Saturdays or Sundays. But since we purchased these tickets ahead of time, we had no choice but to tough it out. Back to the Lobster Festival; it is a week long festival with all kinds of activities going on to include live entertainment, arts and crafts, carnival rides, parade, 10K Road Race and a 5Kwalk, beauty pagents, and the Navy and Coast Guard gave tours aboard their various ships. It is located right on the waterfront and there is a 2 mile boardwalk along the water that was just wonderful. Since Rockland was 93 miles away from where we are staying, we brought our dogs, Charlie and Baxter with us. We thought they would really enjoy spending the day with us. NOT. Baxter was scared to death of all the people and noise. He wouldn't walk, he just sat down and wouldn't budge. So we decided to take them on the boardwalk where it was quieter. About one tenth of the way, Charlie starts panting and snorting like he is going to drop dead so I had to carry his heavy little butt til he calmed down. Then Baxter decided he was going to take on any dog that passed us, barking and charging like a little fool. We found some benches and thought well we'll sit here and enjoy the sailboats and scenery while they calmed down, drank some water and adjusted to this new environment. While sitting there watching the Navy transport people out to the ship they were giving tours on, I spotted a really neat lighthouse quite near where the ship was anchored. (pic above). It looked like the lighthouse and the keeper house took up the whole rock it was on. I can't imagine living in that house with all that water around me. After a little while Jim and I started down the boardwalk again and Charlie starts his panting and snorting again. This time I saw a faucet along the path and Jim soaked Charlie down. He didn't like it one bit, but we were sitting in a shady spot and I think it wasn't long before he felt really comfortable. He was all stretched out on the grass watching the boats with us. Meanwhile Baxter, the dog from hell that day, decided he's going to take on other the other dogs again. It was quite embarrassing. Jim also found a geocache near where we were sitting so he was a happy camper about that.
After walking the boardwalk we went to the Lobster Dinner Tent. Oh my goodness, lobsters everywhere. They used what is known as the World's Greatest Lobster Cooker which cooks 1,600 pounds of lobser in 15 minutes. Since they cook over 26,000 pounds of lobster over the week long festival, that is a lot of lobster. You could get from 1-3 lobsters at a time for dinner. I got the one lobster dinner and it came with corn on the cob and a biscuit. My non-fish eating husband had 2 pieces of pizzas and was totally content with his pizza. He just doesn't know what he is missing.
After dinner, I checked out the arts and crafts tents and Jim sat on the boardwalk with the dogs. It was such a lovely evening. We had signed up for the concert that evening so about 7pm we put the dogs in the car and they both jumped into their beds like FINALLY they are doing what we want. It was pretty cool by that time so they were quite comfortable and Jim and I enjoyed our time without them. The concert we saw that night was Uncle Kracker. He's best known for touring with Kid Rock and Kenny Chesney. He has 10 top hits such as Follow Me and Drift Away, and It Feels Good to be Me. We really enjoyed the concert. The concert ended at 10:30pm and then we had our long drive back to the camp ground. Since there was no traffic at that time of day, we cruised right on down the road.
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