Last week was our amazing week-long Maine vacation! We've been looking forward to this road trip since April when we first booked it, and it lived up to all our expectations. I'm not sure where to start, so we'll just go from the beginning. We decided to drive - and thought Saturday should be a safe bet for traffic. Not so much. Our route took us through 7 states and took 9 hours - almost 3 more than planned due to traffic!
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| Welcome to town! |
But once we got to Portland, it was worth every second. Our B&B was an amazing old Victorian home within walking distance of everything in the city - after our drive, we parked the car and let it stay there for a couple nights.
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| Our fabulous B&B |
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| Views of the harbor |
Portland was a very fun city with an interesting music, food, and craft brew scene. Right on the harbor, it had great views too. We had our first lobster meals in Portland...Mike tried to have lobster at every one and was close with a lobster souffle for breakfast one day! The shopping in town was great - lots of hilarious lobster themed items. Gotta love the lobster jokes. :)
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Mike's first lobster - mmm! The first of many. This little guy held his own lemon in his claw.
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I couldn't believe the live music scene too. On Saturday night we caught multiple live performances. The best was nearly indescribable: a folksy, bluesy big band type group that included a full bass and actually had people spontaneously dancing. The music was so great we stayed right up until the end of the set!
Portland is also known for it's craft beer scene (Mike was only a little excited about that!). We checked out a few local hot spots including Shipyard Brewery. They make a blueberry beer in the summer, and I was officially hooked! It was just a taste of the blueberries to come...
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| The coolest ice maker ever! It melted a block of ice with heat and weight into a perfect sphere. |
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| Mike's drink with the cool ice sphere. |
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