Saturday

Saturday morning we woke to a beautiful sunny day. It was time to leave North Conway. We will be back someday but it is a long drive for an impatient teenager so I will have to wait a few years - :)

We headed to Portland (1 hour drive) to Carolyn's favourite store - Forever 21. Wow!!! This is our second visit and I still can't get over the deals. Carolyn bought 22 articles of clothing for $220.00 (tops, belt, leggings, skirts, dress). That's an average of $10.00 a piece. She needed a lot of clothes for winter so now she is all set.

We then headed for Bangor (2 hour drive). For supper we decided on another chain restaurant Bugaboo Steak House. This place was packed and there was a line up so I figured we would get a good meal. Oh my - this story will be funny to us in a few weeks. First we wait 20 minutes to get a table. I tried to order a small steak for Carolyn but all they had was the filet mignon. So we ordered that. The salads came and they were awful. Time passed and folks around us were getting their meals that had been seated after us. The waitress came to our table and apologized. More time passed, no meal. The manager came out, after we had been sitting for more than an hour and had our meals. He wanted me to check her steak. It was med-rare, almost rare. She had ordered medium. We sent it back to the kitchen, it came back still too rare. By this time we were starved and wanted to go shopping so I cut out the rare part and she ate it. And they didn't anything off our bill. I didn't ask but I figured they would. We left disgusted - we had been there almost 2 hours - 2 hours of precious shopping time...

I got a room at the Sheraton for $75 through Priceline auction. Nice room but not soundproof.