A DAY WITH FRIENDS

September 12, 2015


We got up this morning and had breakfast in the Windjammer before going off on our “Tour of Maine Lighthouses.”  Then it was off to the Platinum Theater to await the call of our group.  We got on bus # 5 (after some confusion – theirs, not ours) and headed out to see 3 local lighthouses.

Ed, who led our tour gave an excellent history talk throughout and did a credible job of communication, after we asked him to turn his microphone up.  Tim, the driver, was never able to get the airconditioner working, but since it was only 67 degrees outside, it wasn’t too bad.

After stopping at our second lighthouse (where we had only 20 minutes – same time limit as the first one) Bonnie said, “You are going to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, arent’ you?”  If you seen Jurasic Park, you know the reference.  We thought that we would get to go inside and climb up the lighthouses to look around, but we couldn’t even walk out to the second one, even though lots of other tourists were doing so.  Must keep to the schedule you know (sounds better pronounced as shed-ule, rather than sked-ule).

At the third light house, low and behold, the door is open and a uniformed guard said, “You need a ticket to go up.  We are calling groups every 15 minutes.”

So I went to get a ticket.  It was 11 a.m., and I was told that the next tickets were for 1:15.  And we were shed-uled to leave for the ship at 11:25.  We were not pleased.  It turns out that today is Maine Lighthouse Day or something – the second Saturday of September, all of the lighthouses are open and folk are invited to visit them.  But not if you were on Tour PW03LB from the Liberty of the Seas.

But the scenery was beautiful and in spite of not seeing any dinosarus, we had a good time.

Back at the ship, we waited for Danielle and Jess, two great ladies we met last October on our re-routed Bermuda Tour.  Faithful readers will remember we came to Canada when a hurricane closed Bermuda.  We ate at Danielle and Jess’s table, and have kept in touch since then.  They drove an hour and half from near Boston to visit us, and we treated them to lunch.  Great time!

In a few minutes, it’s off to supper.  Then we will get tender tickets to go ashore in Bah Habah tomorrow.  And then it’s movie under the stars tonight instead of the show in the Theater.  We’ve seen the commedian and we haven’t seen “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

Addendum: It was too frazzling cold.  Maybe they’ll show Avengers on our Caribbean run in November.

I’ll try to make a post after supper, and add a few pictures.

See you tomorrow from Bar Harbor.

TTFN!