Thursday, August 17

Lay Day | Northeast Harbor, Mount Desert Island

Gavin was up early. He wanted to ride the bus. After trying to ignore him for a while, we eventually gave up and dragged ourselves out of bed. That's the royal "ourselves." Heather had already gotten up.

A Day Without Popovers Is Like...

After I had my coffee, we packed ourselves up and headed ashore to take advantage of the showers at the Yachtsman's Building. (Yes, that is what it is called.) There was a line for showers in the men's area, so I checked my email while I waited for an opening. Meanwhile Heather and Gavin walked up the hill to the deli to get her a cup of coffe.

She doesn't like my coffee.

We zipped back out to the boat to leave off all of our showering gear before returning to shore to grab the next bus to the Jordon Pond House. After all, a trip to MDI isn't complete without popovers. They make great popovers, served with about a pound of butter and strawberry jam. Yum. Heather had made reservations in advance this time, so we were quickly ushered out to a table on the lawn overlooking the pond.

After we had gorged ourselves, we took a walk down to the pond to kill some time before our return bus arrived. We caught our bus--barely: it was standing room only--and headed back to Northeast so that Gavin could catch his nap. While he was sleeping, I headed ashore with our second laptop, which doesn't have a wireless card, so that I could take care of some internet-related things at the Yachtsman's Building.

Yes, we have two laptops on the boat. So?

Gavin again slept late, and we had a standard cruisers evening, with relaxing, drinks, dinner, reading, and bed. It was, again, cold overnight.