Bangor, ME

We had an early morning flight and so spent the night in Bangor, ME. Went to the Sea Dog brewery--one of Den's current favorite beers that we get at Trader Joe's. I like the Porter and Den likes the Pale Ale. So when we found that this was one of their brewhouses, we of course had to go. I have to say it was about the best meal we had the entire trip. And the beer was good too. We had comfort food--a cobb salad and meatloaf. It was one of those meals where you try and stop yourself from eating because you are full, but it's so good, you just keep shoveling it in.

En route we decided Ed needed a romp in the park. This was the local place to go. He really seemed to have finally figured out how to go down the slide. Previous attempts have resulted in him tripping up on his feet/shoes and tumbling forward. And he figured out how to push himself forward from the starting line and go of his own volition down the slide. This was a great park, near Broadway and Pine (just off Stillwater)-- in case anyone finds themselves in Bangor, ME in need of a park. It is a huge space and the playground had at least 5 different slides and all kinds of fun toys. [Today at the park we went down one of those spiral slides together--so tight a spiral I was dizzy at the end and it was a short slide. He was grining about like in these pictures].

Course his favorite thing to do was play with the mulch. When we visited the lighthouse on Thurs. he occupied himself by playing with the stones and gravel dust making up the walkway to the lighthouse. He would stack them, move them around between steps and ledges. He started screaming and crying when we picked him up to leave and it was only after we gave him a couple stones to take with him that he even calmed down. Wonder if the rental car folks noticed the rocks in the car door. LIkely he didn't have the same reaction to the mulch. I do think he has a preference of rocks over mulch, but will take mulch in a pinch.