A cold and rainy day!

Monday, September 14, 2015

Reporting today that I’m not going to report about today, as due to weather conditions, not a lot went on!  We got up at the usual time, which was pretty good, keeping in mind that with the Sunday night football game not starting until sometime after 10 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, it wasn’t over until somewhere around 1 a.m.  I now completely understand the frustration of Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg (from Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN) – they have to get up somewhere around 4 a.m. to get to ESPN as their show begins at 6 a.m. EDT every week day morning … no wonder Greeny records everything!  And with tonight’s double-header on ESPN, I think game #2 STARTS at 11 p.m.  Whew!

Not much to be found here at the hotel for breakfast; pretty disappointing, actually, and then it started to rain. 

Back to reversing falls...

However, we headed first to the reversing falls to see how things were going (I think both I and the car can just head there automatically) and enjoyed seeing the water rushing out.  From there, (oh, R says that area residents may be getting the idea that we’re casing the joint!) we went to the big (and enclosed and comfortable) City Market for a stroll.  Very fun; a combination of produce, meats, fish and souvenirs.  And, there is a ship in town!  It’s Royal Caribbean’s Legend of the Sea, so ship people were everywhere in town, in spite of the weather.  After the market, we decided to head toward Alma, which is about an hour and a half further east along the coast, to see what the tidal activity looked like.  Unfortunately, as we were about 50 miles out of town, the fog closed in – and while we didn’t mind the rain, the fog made visibility very poor – and as R says, would we even know what we were looking at? We decided then to turn back, get some lunch, and see if the weather would get any better.

But, first, we went back to the reversing rapids to see the flow going in the other direction – from the sea to the bay.  We must have been closer to high tide because the rapid wasn’t as violent as the outflow yesterday.  But it was still pretty impressive.  Not a place to be caught in a canoe.

More than a bit rainy!

Close to the hotel we found Wok Box which is a “fresh, Asian” eatery; apparently a chain, but the only other one R could find was over 200 miles away, so not sure.  R had spring rolls and a teriyaki beef noodle bowl, and I had potstickers and their Singapore noodles with beef. We were both very happy with our choices.  Then, back to the hotel for a nap and rest until dinner.

Out again about 6:30 p.m. and at last it looks like the wet weather has (hopefully!) passed us by.  We found a small local Italian restaurant named Romano’s; very good, although their portion sizes were HUGE!  I ordered spaghetti with meatsauce and a salad, and R had spaghetti with meatsauce and mushrooms and minestrone, and we now have more than enough for breakfast tomorrow!  Unfortunately, as we had just thought we’d pick up a pizza, R didn’t take the camera, so no photos of this very nice place!

City Market; very colorful and fun!

Loved the mobiles!

Back to the hotel about 8 p.m. just in time for Monday Night Football!  Whoo-hoo!

Back to the U.S. tomorrow, and an overnight in lovely Boothbay Harbor, where we are hoping the weather will be warmer!  So, so much for not posting for today!

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