Vacation by Number: Maine - The Healthy Slice

1: lobstah roll

2: pairs of lobstah socks. Thankfully only one pair was worn this way.

1: bowl of chowdah

1: maiden voyage to Tim Hortons

3 runs: 1 sucky, 1 stellar, 1 solid

4: ice cream encounters: check out peanut putter paradise from a great place in Bar Harbor.

The absolute best ice cream ever award goes to Salted Caramel from Stone Fox Creamery. Apparently I was convulsing with so much pleasure I neglected to take a photo. Holy cow that was delish!

4: souvenir pounds brought home on my gut/hips, see above

2: prickly sea urchins that made it home with us

2: prickly sea urchins that stink to high heaven

1: uninvited but hilarious Jack Russell terrier that wandered into our hotel room

4: hours before Thing 2 lost her Barbie in the airport

2: days before Thing 2 replaced her lost Barbie with a mermaid doll eerily similar to the one she lost in Florida earlier this year

3: attempts to see harbor fireworks: 1 rainout, 1 fogout, 1 success!

1: badass teardrop cycling helmet tried on

3: people who laughed at me

1: guy who mistook me for an Ironman athlete

30: seconds I considered marrying that guy

1: birthday celebration (Caveman)

1: flip flop lost in coach on the plane

1: flip flop found in first class

1,000+: people who watched harbor fireworks with us

6: peeps who violated blanket ettiquette and butted theirs up against ours. Totally unacceptable by Midwest standards. It hadn’t happened yet in this pic so I have no evidence. See the 9-12″ buffer zone? That’s optimal. Zero space between? Not so much.

1: 4th of July parade,

giant lobster float…

…tractor…

…and deer on the potty included.

4: beauty queens: 1 Blueberry Queen, 2 Sea Godesses and a Lobster Queen

1: Dorky family photo
Thing 2 is wearing a Maine T-shirt, but she obviously marches to her own drummer.