7-10-2010 Maine Day 7

We left the Holiday Inn and headed to downtown Bath to find a breakfast place. We saw signs for the Farmer’s Market and walked down to its location by the river. Bought some carb goodies of course. No fruit in the Market – just breads, vegetables and meats. The place we aimed to go to for breakfast didn’t look so cool, so we headed up the hill and found another very busy breakfast café (Mae’s Café). While waiting to sit, a very talkative guy, Bill, introduced himself and his wife, Sue, and then quizzed us about where we were from. Turned out they sat next to us, so the discussion continued onto things to see and do in the Bath area. He and Sue had celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2005 in Acadia and it had rained the whole time they were there. Made us realize how fortunate we have been. Another turn of fortune – just heard this morning that President Obama is taking a week’s vacation in Acadia next week – wouldn’t that have tied things up remarkably! Sue had this cute story of how all of Bill’s shirts have a hole in the side of the sleeve from her pulling on his shirt to get him to stop talking and give people a break. They were a fun couple – hope we turn out that way – we’re close!


We hadn’t been planning on it, but after hearing Bill and Sue talk about the Maine Maritime Museum, we decided to stop and visit it. Went in at about 11:00 and left at about 2:00. Standard museum time for us. It was raining when we left – the skies had turned very black while we were inside. It was very overcast and rain on and off the rest of the day. Sue drove to Brunswick (I had a bad headache) and drove around the Bowdoin College campus (home of Chamberlain of Gettysburg fame). Got a sandwich at Subway and were off to Portland.

Went first to the Visitor Center by the water, which was quite a chore, since there were no signs on the building. We found some walking tours to take tomorrow and then headed for 4:30 Mass at the Cathedral. When we got there Mass was already started – some folks told us the time had been changed just this week to 4 and said we could go to another nearby Church, St. Peter’s, at 5:15. So we poked around the downtown for awhile, went to Mass in the very stuffy old church (5 parishes banded together to act as one).

Then out to the Holiday Inn Express – nice place even if the rug is soaked by a leaking air conditioner in the room. I washed my final set of underwear so I’d have something for Monday. Dinner at Uno Chicago Grill, back to the room to watch Johnny Dep in Public Enemy. Ice Hockey tournament in town – lots of kids, noisy early but they settled down.