Portland and Lighhouses

We got up yesterday morning and went to a little place for breakfast called Huckleberry's.  I got blueberry pancakes and have never seen so many blueberries in my life.  I thought they were blueberry patties.  I did find some pancake in it, don't get me wrong...they were good.  We also had a guy sit down behind us that received a phone call and was talking at the top of his lungs.  His friend has just passed away and he was pretty upset.  Just behind him was an old man and his wife and he was one grummpy sucker.  As the guy was talking out of the blue this old guy yells, "keep it down!"  Elaine and I just looked at each other and the gay couple behind us started chattering about how rude it was to be on your phone.  Elaine and I felt sorry for the guy and got to talk to him later.  Interesting start to and interesting day.

This is Kennebunkport which the Bush family owns.  The old President Bush use to go here a lot.  Nice place out on it's own point.  Overall Kennebunkport was boring.  We were expecting a high tourist town but it was pretty dead and blah.  We were excited to leave and get on to Portland.

Portland wasn't much better.  It took us about two hours to go 29 miles.  Every mile the speed limit changes.  Your going 35 then it goes to 25 then it goes to 45 then it goes back to 35.  We just laughed and wondered why we just didn't jump out on the freeway, it was an adventure but something we wish we would have missed.  This is a picture of Portland from our boat.  We did really enjoy going on the boat and it was worth the trip up.

This is the boat we went on.  It was actually really smooth.  The day was pretty windy and we thought they would have cancelled it but they said it was actually a good day to go out.  We stood right there on the front next to the pole.  Very fun.

This was our captain.  He was a riot.  He talked the whole 90 min. we were out.  Who should be president, what is up with muslims, and the complete history of the World.  He actually make it really fun.

Here is Elaine on the front of our boat.  We spent most of the tour up front looking out.

This was an old Civil War fort in the middle of the harbor.  We were really surprised at how much civil war and WWII stuff went on here.

This is a WWII gunnery used to protect the harbor.

Our favorite place to eat.  We ate there three times while we were here.  The food was great and the service was excellent.  We would highly recommend it to anyone coming this way.  They were celebrating their 25th year in operation, we thought it fitting to go!

These are some sunset pictures. It was a gorgeous evening and we just spent the time walking the marginal way and talking.  It was really nice.

We have more pics we'll show ya when we get home.  Beautiful place.