So, Neal and I are back from a very, very awesome vacation. I did miss the kitties, but I think I could of stayed away a couple more days, haha.

The plan was to stay in Boston Thursday night, and then drive to Maine Friday to visit our friends Dan and Jodie until Sunday.

We got to Boston around 3:30 or so Thursday. After driving around the block once trying to find parking, we pulled up in front of our hotel, only to learn it was valet parking. HAHA, ooops. We stayed at the Omni Parker House, which is a really old, beautiful hotel near Beacon Hill, and within walking distance of Faneuil Hall.

We were upgraded to a king size bed, probably because that’s just how the rooms worked out. The rooms were very small, but very cool. Our bed took up the whole room!

We freshened up and then headed out into town. It started to drizzle, but we walked around anyway. We were only there for one night and didn’t want to waste it. We walked to Fanueil Hall, Quincy Market area.

And we ate dinner at Kingfish Hall, which is owned by Todd English (Neal and I love the show  “Top Chef” and he’s been a guest judge on the show before).

The food was AMAZING. The lighting was really yellow, so my pictures aren’t that great. Neal ordered the dancing fish special, which is basically a whole fish roasted over a spit. I got the halibut. Everything was so good. It was a really great dinner. Neal gets credit for researching restaurants and finding this one. Thanks, babe!

The weather started to get worse, so we headed back to the room. We knew the next day was going to be a long day.

We got up Friday morning, ate at a nearby bagel shop, and then drove the two hours to Maine. It was a pretty crappy, rainy day, but it was so awesome to see Dan and Jodie. Dan was still at work, so Jodie, Neal and I headed into the town of Old Port to eat lunch and walk around.

I took a lot of photos on this trip, but I’m trying to keep this post under a 5 minute load time, haha. So I’m not going to post all the pictures.

On our way back to Dan and Jodie’s house, we stopped to get live lobsters to cook at night. There are different sizes of lobsters, and you ordered by pounds of that size. It was sort of confusing because the sizes weren’t like, small medium and large. We ordered the “chix” size, which are 1 pound (Jodie and Dan say the smaller ones often have better quality meat). Anyway, it was funny because I was confused on how to order, and Jodie was like “Oh, it’s just like Starbucks. Just don’t say small, medium and large!” HAHA! I thought that was hilarious and actually helped me understand the ordering system.

We went back to their house and waited for Dan to get home. We hung out on the back porch for a little.

And this is Summit, Dan and Jodie’s dog. He’s like the best dog ever. They can leave him home for like 13 hours without letting him out. He rarely barks and listens very well. He’s just a very calm, chill dog. Neal and I loved him.

Then we began preparing the lobster dinner. We took lots of silly pictures, but I’m not going to bore you with all of them.

This picture of Dan cracks me up. He’s got a funny look on his face, haha.

I didn’t take pictures of us eating, since it was a pretty messy, buttery affair. But I have to say, it was probably the most delicious dinner I’ve ever had in my life. That lobster was out-of-this-world good. And I’m definitely not a vegetarian since I didn’t feel one ounce of guilt from boiling and eating those little suckers, haha.

OK, so I’ll post about our Saturday later this week. I have a lot of really awesome pics. A good thing? Saturday was BEA-utiful in Maine.