We were supposed to wake up at around 8 in the morning but in the end all of us only woke up at what.. 10 am? Hehe, but hey, at least it was considered a pretty good rest. The first venue to go was to visit the Bar Harbor Light House. Light house these days .. Just like when I went to cape may, I was at the light house.. too bad I didn't bring the camera then.
Anyways, here are the photos of the day!
Zhang Yi looking all cold as we trudged down to the light house...
Cute Ting! The "Just woke up" look :P
That's me trying to look cute.. I think I look better from the side.
This is the light house.. the closest that I could get to it... not the authentic, old fashioned light house that you would expect.
Anyway after looking at the lighthouse, we decided to make our way down to the Lobster Pound for lunch. Apparently in Maine, the best places to eat lobsters are not the restaurants but the Pound. A pound is like a really casual place where you serve yourself and sit out in the open to enjoy a steaming plate of lobster. Pounds usually have their own lobster catching team of "lobsterman" (think fishermen.. i came up with the term myself). So the lobsters you eat are what they caught!
Take a look at this photo of a really HUGE lobster.. this is the large lobster.. prolly around 1 kg? Eeks.. But we didn't eat so much.. we had 1 small lobster each.. around 12 bucks for one (freaking cheap) and we were super full.. can't imagine how the people around us (they were all eating the 1kg lobster) could finish it.
We ordered corn and crab chowder. Absolutely delectable.
Mussels too! The taste of the Sea..
Here's me with my lobster. Not large but I thought it was enough!
Ting and a lobster!
The carnage. The aftermath.
View from outside the pound. Thurston's Lobster Pound. Check out the lobster cages.
After lobsters, we decided to satisfy Ting's crave for beer and what nots. We went to the bar harbor brewery and tasted like at least 5 kinds of beer (root beer inclusive) I am not a beer person, so I ended up pouring all the extra beer into ting's cup. :P
Here's a shot of ting outside the brewery.
This is me. The reason why I'm so cuddled up is because there were too many mosquitoes around me and I was trying to protect my face and my body. Damn I hate those mosquitoes!
After the brewery we went to the winery and the girls went crazy buying alcohol again. Hehe at least I'm ok.. I only bought a couple of beers as gifts. I bought myself Root Beer though! Root Beer is the best beer on earth!
After the winery, we went back to bar harbor (which i affectionately term it as ba' ha' ba') and then ting was itching for some kind of trekking. So we left ying and yi at downtown and we ventured up cadillac mountain to look at the sunset.
That's me climbing up the mountain (yeah right :P)
A shot that I took of thing, overlooking the sea. Beautiful
That's us! I was really cold. Damn, but i love the weather! I like it cold!
A picture paints a thousand words.
As the sun started to set... too bad we couldn't see the sun proper cause it was too foggy. But nonetheless it was amazing. So romantic.
After Cadillac mountain, we went back to downtown bar harbor and met the rest. We went to this restaurant called Route 66. We went in cause I was feeling hungry and the restaurant looked pretty cool. Like a picture taken out from the 60s. It was cool, the toilets had year book pages from the past plastered on it. The place even had a little train running around the ceiling. Too bad I didn't take enough pictures. Too cold and hungry.
Here's a shot of Ting and I at the restaurant. We just anyhow ventured into this place and didn't realise that it was actually ranked no. 11 (which was pretty good) on the bahaba rankings. Apparently the lobster pound we went to was no. 33! Food here is really awesome.
After that, we went down to a pub to listen to some Jazz. Cover charge was 3 bucks and the used a Sharpie marker pen to draw my hand to signify that I've paid. Sheesh I can DIY it too. But then again, 3 bucks is still alright. There were 3 bands playing and I almost fell asleep during the first one. Hehe the second one was pretty cool. 2 white guys rapping gibberish. Princess from Chicago were their band name. One of the members was gay.. but damn, he was so damn hot!
We ordered some spanish drink which I can't remember what its name was. It had cut fruits in it. As the pub was too dark, my camera couldn't focus and this was the best shot that I could take of the drink. That's why I didn't take more photos.
We left 1/2way after Princess from Chicago started playing as we were all tired. On my way out, as I was walking, in Columbia jacket, track pants and sports shoes (how dorky can that get), a rather cute caucasian guy stopped me. He asked me if i was from Laos. I said no.. and he still started speaking to me in Laos (I believe) I kept telling him that I don't understand him and I gave him a fake british accent and told him that I only speak english and I don't speak Laos at all. In the end he reverted to English, he didn't have an american accent. he asked me where I was from, I told him I was from Malaysia and New York. After that I told him I wanna go and shook his hand and left... can't be bothered. Haha, that's the fun about being picked up. you can just feign an entire new story about yourself and leave feeling triumphant.
This sorta marked the end of this action packed day.
