Monday, August 27, 2012

"Barenaked Ladies" in Maine?

A while ago, I got a notice from TicketMaster letting me know that the Barenaked Ladies, along with Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Blues Traveler, and Cracker would be playing in Bangor, Maine. My husband and I had seen BNL at Turning Stone Casino a couple of years ago and it was a fantastic show with many surprises (just one being that Ed from BNL sang a version of "I'm Sexy and I Know It" with Big Head Todd and proceeding to strip down to a thong - shock, horror and hysterical laughter ensued). It was just the excuse we needed to visit Maine. (There is no logic here, folks. Just play along.)
John Popper from Blues Traveler and David Lowery from Cracker perrform.

Todd Park Mohr of Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Ed Robertson, Kevin Hearn, Jim Creeggan, and Tyler Stewart (not shown) of Barenaked Ladies.


First stop, Portland, Maine. If anyone has been thinking about visiting this town, don't second guess it, do it. We all loved Portland. It's a smaller city with many quaint shops in the Old Port section of town. We found a great coffee shop, Mornings in Paris, that we visited both days we were there. We took a tour of the harbor by boat and I discovered I have no sea legs. Aside from that our time was spent eating lobster as many ways as we could and shopping.
Our next stop was to Bar Harbor for one night at a bed and breakfast. After having to share a double bed for two nights, Sean said about the two twin beds awaiting them, "Tonight, we sleep like kings." Where does he get this stuff? Yes, I was a bit worried about a 15 and 13 year old in a B&B. They were given specific instructions, that's for sure.

I was hoping to hunt for sea glass during low tide to use in some jewelry but I wasn't up to it right when we got there and I didn't want to get out of bed that early to look the next day. Next time, I guess. We walked around the harbor, poked about in the stores and had dinner. The next morning we had a delicious breakfast of blueberry and cream cheese stuffed French Toast with blueberry sauce and then it was off to Bangor for the concert.

They wouldn't let me bring home the B&B's beautiful butler's pantry...
Bar Harbor
Tea time!
Our last stop in Maine was Perkins Cove/Ogunquit. It's very popular destination and I wish we had more time to spend checking out all the little shops but after lunch we were all ready to press on home. We ate at MC Perkins Cove. I wanted to check it out as the two chef owners are on the current Top Chef Masters. We weren't disappointed. It was delicious.

Hope you're able to take a trip to Maine sometime. We're hoping we'll get back there some day.


2 comments:

Cindy said...

Michelle, I sure enjoyed your ME trip stories and pictures!! Ironically, we stayed in Maine for 4 days during our trip!! My parents had a condo built (in a converted Victorian) and may rent that as they are now building a new townhouse there... did you see the diner called Becky's? It is within walking distance from Becky's. We took off on little side trips and didn't stay around Portland itself to explore - we'll have to do that next time. I'd love to check out Bar Harbor too - another place we didn't make this time around. That's so cool that you stayed in a B&B (I'm sure the boys were great!) and some yummy meals. That blueberry and cream-cheese stuffed french toast sounds HEAVENLY!! And yae for BNL...Randy said he saw posters for that concert when we were up there. :-)

Michelle said...

Cindy, I saw that you were visiting New England but didn't realize that you went to Maine. So your parents have a condo in Portland? We didn't make it to Becky's. I don't think we went that far going west on Commercial St. We actually stayed in Scarborough but it was a very quick trip in. Loved Portland - I would go back in a heartbeat. Bar Harbor was a lot smaller than I was thinking it would be. There's a few nice antique places on the road into Bar Harbor. We stopped at a house with a barn in back owned by an English couple who were very funny. Found a cheap lid to a Fiestaware teapot. Talk to you later!