June 22, 2005

Well, Kim and I went walking in the rain. blah, tum dee blah, pina colada, blah, blah walks in the rain…

It’s raining here at Bar Harbor. We have booked a ride on a scooner called the Rachel B. Jackson. We are going on a sunset cruise with Spot. $30 per adult and good dogs are free. That’s what decided us on the ship. That good dogs got to go free. The ship is a scooner replica. Their print brochure is better than their web brochure, btw. So you should request it. It is supposed to stop raining by the time we go on the cruise.

Kim is happy to sit around the hotel and knit. She is now thinking very hard about doing a knitter’s week at the Arms for the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops. Knitter’s Week, just like Painter’s Week. We watched SG1 last night. That was good and I saw Iron Chef, the original version, for the first time. That was interesting.

While sitting around is great, we don’t do enough of it, I wanted to go DO something. Puffins are out because of the rain.

She’s shopping for pants and clothing. Kim packs light. We never used to and now we re doing more of it. But it’s tough having only one pair of pants when it is raining. We DO have our bathing suits and the pool at the Balance Rock Inn is heated, not super warm, but warm enough, we need something to change into for the sail. Hey, they have an LL Bean super store here if you can believe it.

I think, even without Spot, the Balance Rock Inn is the place to stay. It’s warm, friendly and comfortable as well as elegant. Plus the view is grand.