Downeast Digest: Day 6

Monday, October 10

This was supposed to be the day we flew back home . . . but more on that later.

We got the car packed up (yes, it was still raining) and made a brief visit to the Stanwood Museum and Bird Sanctuary in Ellsworth. It was closed, but we could still walk through. The Sanctuary is 130 acres, with walking paths throughout. They had several cages of injured raptors, including a few sleepy owls who blinked at us. Rosie thought that one of them looked like Old Mr. Brown, from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, so she told him some riddles.

Then we drove to the town of Blue Hill, which had lots of interesting shops and was a nice New England village. We visited a few of the shops, and ate lunch at a nice restaurant called The Pantry. We spent a little time at the dock in Blue Hill, feeding the gulls some of our leftover bread and crackers, and also stopped at an interesting cemetery with some very old graves in the town of East Blue Hill.

We saw the tiniest post office I've ever seen in East Blue Hill. This was a really cute little town.

Then, we headed to Bangor, cruised Stephen King's house for a final time (he still hasn't come out and invited us in for tea!) and stupidly turned in our rental car BEFORE we checked to see if our flight was on schedule. It wasn't, and had been cancelled. We were rebooked on a 2:30 pm flight the following day.

So off to the Holiday Inn we went. Fortunately, they had a shuttle service to pick us up, and to also take us to Seadog Brewery for dinner. So Rosie got one extra day of bouncing on parallel double beds, a treat she only gets to enjoy when we are on vacation.

Footnote: the next day's flight went as scheduled, and we're home and rested now.