After leaving Nobleboro we headed to meet friends for a lunch stop in Belfast before continuing onto Bar Harbor for the night. Coincidentally, Nannie and Grandpa were in the area for the day and got to meet us for lunch too! Our Bar Harbor trip started off in typical fashion when my friend left her wallet in the shopping cart at Target in Augusta... Thankfully someone returned it, but we weren't about to back track for it. As it turns out, when traveling with a large group (2 adults, 6 kids) it is way easier to just have one person pay:)
Our first stop on the island was at the Oceanarium to hear the lobster talk and see the animals. Audrey even got to put an elastic on the lobster's claw! After the wallet incident, everything else went surprisingly smoothly... maybe it just felt that way because our expectations were so low;) We managed to take all the kids out to eat at a restaurant and then let them run wild in the tide pools and across the sand bar. After they were exhausted, we bribed them away from the water and up the hill with the promise of ice cream. I should have known better than to go to Ben and Bills... They aren't really set up to accommodate bigger groups with tired children. Once we embraced the enormous kids sized ice creams, the fact that it cost more for ice cream than dinner and that I would wear more than Audrey would eat for the sacrifice of keeping her on my back we had lots to laugh about... I am pretty sure anyone seeing our moving group of chaos would have thought we were crazy.
In an effort to be economical on this trip we shared a hotel room... maybe we had an poorly thought out moment of weakness or a grand sense of adventure. All I can say is that I am so glad that our kids like each other and we discovered that the kids can sleep anywhere. The sleepover went way better than I had imagined. Five out of 6 kids slept on the floor and Shannon had the whole bed to herself. We did take a picture of just how much stuff it took to sleep over for one night... the positive note here was there were no pack'n plays or baby food involved, so things are getting easier:)
The next day was not great for weather, but given the heated pool we had the place to ourselves. Oh, and once again the Holiday Inn probably lost money with their "kids eat free promotion". All in all it was a fun trip and we made it home just in time to pack for our next adventure!
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