Anniversary Adventures in the Fog
Didn't get a chance to post yesterday as we were too busy! Yesterday was our 4th anniversary (although Dietrich is telling everyone that it is our 5th as he just wants it to be). We slept in, something we never do at home. Got up and I made avocado toast, and scrambled eggs with carmelized onions, mushrooms, and horseradish cheese. Perfect. I also put some cut up strawberries on his plate so they looked like 2 hearts, awww how sappy! Haha
Dietrtich is such a sweetie. He surprised me with having a dozen roses delivered to the room. I *love* this picture, it looks like he is a tiny gift Dietrich popping out of the roses! LOL
And guess what! It was FOGGY! Fog Day #3. I'm glad we had good weather earlier in the week otherwise we'd never know we were in Maine. We decided to go exploring so we drove up the coast to Belfast. Hoped to see lighthouses but that wasn't going to happen! The fog is cool in it's own way, slippery and misty and spooky.
The fog would shift and move. One minute you could see the boats. The next minute they would be gone, lost in the fog.
They still use coal up here.
Because we were adventurous, we decided to drive to Camden State Park where there is a mountain look out at 1300 ft. We drove up the auto road and climbed the look out tower. And we saw......
Fog. Thats right, just fog. I'm told by the rangers and by the diaries that this is a gorgeous panoramic scene. I'll have to take their word for it.
We saw the Metgunticook hiking trail near by which had all sorts of cool rock formations, boulders, and cliffs so we decided to hike it, but stay away from the edges with the fog as we had no idea what was beyond it. It was pretty cool.
Came back to the condo, took a dip in the pool, read through more diaries. I've gone through 12 volumes and am on 2003. Going to try and read them all.
I wanted lobster for dinner so Dietrich took me to NATALIES. Wow. 5 star, all fancy, french music playing. The 4 course lobster dinner was more like 8. All gourmet fancy stuff I can't even remember like fried foraged honey comb, earl grey ice cream, hazelnut fritters, white truffle soup, huge lobster claw meat, artichoke salad, raw tuna, foraged greens. I was stuffed by the 6th course even though the portions were small. And they used a salt cellar, and there was a special french guy just to carry the salt cellars around to each table. The salt selection included icelandic brine, indian spicy something, and truffle. Really, just a $20 lobster dinner and a bib would have suited me. I'm not saying what this dinner put him back for 2 people.
To cap off the day we took the annual sip from the Glenfiddich not-for-public-sale sherry cask second fill 92 proof single malt "The Animal" that we bottled in Scotland 4 years ago. I personally bottled this particular bottle, Deek did another. We figure this will carry us through 20 years of annual sips. If we're married longer we need to go back and fill up more bottles.
Then we decided to watch - what else, the 1980 John Carpenter film The Fog. The perfect ending to the day. The fog was already up and over the porch and after the movie Deek wanted to go out there. Um, I think not. I made sure to lock both porch doors before we went to bed.
Dietrtich is such a sweetie. He surprised me with having a dozen roses delivered to the room. I *love* this picture, it looks like he is a tiny gift Dietrich popping out of the roses! LOL
And guess what! It was FOGGY! Fog Day #3. I'm glad we had good weather earlier in the week otherwise we'd never know we were in Maine. We decided to go exploring so we drove up the coast to Belfast. Hoped to see lighthouses but that wasn't going to happen! The fog is cool in it's own way, slippery and misty and spooky.
The fog would shift and move. One minute you could see the boats. The next minute they would be gone, lost in the fog.
They still use coal up here.
Because we were adventurous, we decided to drive to Camden State Park where there is a mountain look out at 1300 ft. We drove up the auto road and climbed the look out tower. And we saw......
Fog. Thats right, just fog. I'm told by the rangers and by the diaries that this is a gorgeous panoramic scene. I'll have to take their word for it.
We saw the Metgunticook hiking trail near by which had all sorts of cool rock formations, boulders, and cliffs so we decided to hike it, but stay away from the edges with the fog as we had no idea what was beyond it. It was pretty cool.
Came back to the condo, took a dip in the pool, read through more diaries. I've gone through 12 volumes and am on 2003. Going to try and read them all.
I wanted lobster for dinner so Dietrich took me to NATALIES. Wow. 5 star, all fancy, french music playing. The 4 course lobster dinner was more like 8. All gourmet fancy stuff I can't even remember like fried foraged honey comb, earl grey ice cream, hazelnut fritters, white truffle soup, huge lobster claw meat, artichoke salad, raw tuna, foraged greens. I was stuffed by the 6th course even though the portions were small. And they used a salt cellar, and there was a special french guy just to carry the salt cellars around to each table. The salt selection included icelandic brine, indian spicy something, and truffle. Really, just a $20 lobster dinner and a bib would have suited me. I'm not saying what this dinner put him back for 2 people.
To cap off the day we took the annual sip from the Glenfiddich not-for-public-sale sherry cask second fill 92 proof single malt "The Animal" that we bottled in Scotland 4 years ago. I personally bottled this particular bottle, Deek did another. We figure this will carry us through 20 years of annual sips. If we're married longer we need to go back and fill up more bottles.
Then we decided to watch - what else, the 1980 John Carpenter film The Fog. The perfect ending to the day. The fog was already up and over the porch and after the movie Deek wanted to go out there. Um, I think not. I made sure to lock both porch doors before we went to bed.
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