 Stop in Acadia. The French connection. We're overlooking French pinsby and it's pretty cool here. I don't know if you can see it clearly behind me but it really is awesome. So Acadia National Park was just a jam packed with people so we just drove through and I filmed some of the sites but not very many. This is just on the side of the road in Acadia. Lots of beautiful spots throughout the entire park. And no visit to Barhaba would be complete without stopping at the Azalea Gardens. We absolutely love these gardens. They were designed by a man named Charles Savage and they were designed to resemble a Japanese stroll garden. He actually used many traditional Japanese design features that were adapted to coastal Maine and this is just a beautiful beautiful place in all different seasons. We've never been here in the winter so I can't speak about that but we have in fall and in summer just gorgeous. The gardens actually change throughout the year. They have a beautiful flowering cherry tree and they have so many beautiful azaleas and rhododendrons that bloom from May to June and in July they have Japanese iris, smoke, bush, rosebay rhododendrons and sweet azaleas. It's just amazing and it's beautiful. It's free. Donation only. You can stroll. They have wonderful clean restroom facilities. What a great spot. Isn't it pretty, honey? That was so peaceful and pretty in here. I don't know. I wonder if they're due to be pruned or something of that nature. Lily pads over there in the water. One year we came up during the fall season and the gardens were just a blaze with the most magnificent fall colors imaginable. I think we just had a perfect perfect fall that year and the foliage was just superb. Really beautiful. There's lots of rocks and beautiful vegetation and you can see Jay here trying to cross over the rocky path to the beautiful sand garden. He was really brave. I go very careful. I wish I could sing because I really would love to be my husband's sleeping. So we're back at the campground after a morning of exploring. Just a morning of exploring. We will be exploring more later. This is an extremely uneventful sunset. I mean we've had magnificent sunsets here and this was just not up to par but I filmed it anyways via a time lapse from my friend's campsite in Bar Harbor, K-O-A. Hey guys, it's Tuesday, August 7th. I cannot believe that vacation is just going by so fast. Although we do have another week here so I'm really thankful for that. It has been really hot. We've done a number of you know cool exploring things in the morning and then the afternoon we just come back here and we swim in the bay. It's really calm water right now and it's unseasonably warm water for Maine. So we're enjoying it. We're enjoying just floating out there forever in the afternoon. So this morning we're heading to Jordan Planned House and we're being picked up by friends and we're going there for popovers. It's a tradition of ours to have popovers at Jordan Planned House and it's going to be sort of like a brunch so that'll be really fun. We just had a great time. We've sat around the fire. I've been really good. I haven't had any s'mores but Jay's had a few but we've just vaging a vaging vacation which is what we really needed after the whirlwind of Canada. So I've had a couple of challenges with my skin in the sense of so much sun. So in the afternoon when the sun comes on this side of the motorhome this whole front part is sunny so I have a big beach umbrella on the edge of my chair which shades me but when you go in the water I'm just depending on sunblock and hats and whatnot. So our friends should be here pretty soon. We're going to head out with them. The popovers were delicious and Jay had a popover Sunday that was delicious and it's going to all be in his waist. I didn't even have a bite. Jude had no dessert. No but I had two popovers. They were yummy. We all had two popovers in a beverage. That's what our brunch was. Yeah. I had two iced coffees. The iced coffees were amazing and my CAD and iced coffee. How was your iced coffee? It was excellent. Excellent iced coffee. This is a commercial. It's an experience though. Yeah. It's tradition. It's tradition. We do it every year. They're expensive. They took away the free popover if you buy a $14 salad. You got to pay extra to get the popover now. $14 popover. But oh they're so yummy. They was so yummy. Yummy, yummy, yummy. Popo was in my tummy. Are there trees out there? They're cedar trees. They smell so nice. When we were in Canada going down the driveway to one B&B, I thought you could smell. Oh yeah. Since Happy's working and I have no car, I could always catch a ride with some friends but I think I'm going to do the shuttle bus and I'm just going to shop around. Last year I got this amazing pier of errand. I sit here waiting for the island shuttle bus. I don't know. It seems like it's really delayed tonight. So I want you to know why I travel by RV. It's so that I have easy access to my yacht, which I have delivered to Bar Harbor. I'm going to turn around and show you. I know the fog has come in but can you see that big, big yacht? That is called Casino Royal. That's mine. I just didn't want to tell everyone. I'm actually only kidding. There really isn't my boat but it probably takes the same amount of fuel as my RV does to run. Well, probably not. Downtown Bar Harbor is beautiful even in the fog and beyond there is Bar Island, which at low tide you can walk across all the way to the island and then climb up. But it is just a beautiful spot, fog and all. I love going shopping here, walking around downtown. It's a little chillier than I anticipated but I had a great night exploring. It's Monica. It is, well that's stupid. You know it's me. I don't know why I always do that. Anyways, it is Thursday and it is August 9th. Jay left on Tuesday. He went home for two days so he left late Tuesday afternoon and had a five and a half hour ride home and he was going home mainly because he had a closing and a final walkthrough and you know he really is very, very dedicated to his clients and he wanted to be there. So he left Tuesday and got home very late and then Wednesday was he did his final walkthrough. He packaged up my Nevea skin softening serum that he sent out to the winner of that giveaway and he also picked up a package for me from Octoly, which I'm super excited because he's going to bring that with him when he comes back today. And that package was like this hair texturizing stuff that Mala Robinson had raved about. So I went on the Octoly network and requested it. They approved me and I'm really curious to try it. I have very thin hair and I have been growing my hair out and I've been doing hair treatments and all that. So I haven't, I'm fortunate that I haven't really lost a whole lot of more hair but you know I have very thin hair. So the hair texturizing stuff sounded really phenomenal. So I got approved and they sent it to me and I'm going to try it when he brings it up and try it the rest of my vacation. I've also been using on this whole trip so far all the lippies that I got from Lancome and those throwback lippies, I absolutely love them. When I first put it on, the very first one, it felt a little tacky on my lips but it didn't dry down tacky at all. It, it dried down very smooth, very nice, very moisturizing. I really love it. I did the video where I talked about getting that and I kind of like was a tongue-in-jeek video. I found an old retro jacket of mine, a jean jacket that I loved. I put on an old, not an old, I put on a long wig that had been sent to me a long time ago from Uni Wigs and I tried to create sort of a throwback look of that Ruby hippie chick you know with the Lancome throwback lippies. My lovely, and I love that jean jacket which many of you said you loved and I put that long wig on with the hair clip to kind of like you know kind of relive the era of the way I maybe looked when I was a lot younger. I shouldn't say maybe looked but the interesting thing is the jacket still fit me and I don't remember being as fat back then as I am today so surprised that the jacket fit me but it's an oversized jacket to begin with and it's a very long jacket so I really loved it. So anyways, so he's going to bring up the hair texturizing. I'm going to use that for the rest of the trip. I'm really excited to try that out because anything that'll give me more texture to my fine hair is awesome. I don't have perms. I do color my hair so I you know I pick my poison color seems to be my highlights and my frosting frosting is that what you still call it? I think it's highlights and lowlights. I really like doing that and I don't think I'm going to grow my hair much longer than it is now. This is going to be the way that I keep it you know this length for a while. I do great when I put it up. It's when I wear it down that I have more of a hard time and it's of course hard in humidity and on vacation I'm not a glam of course on vacation by any stretch. So it brings me to answering another question that you probably didn't know you had but some of you have had. It doesn't make sense. About my motor home. We bought our motor home. We bought this motor home used. We've had it I think maybe 15 years or so. I'd have to double check with Jay. We've had it a long time but this not home when we bought it was used. It was built in 2001. So for vehicle standards for motor home for camping this is an old guy. This is an old beast and when we bought it we got a great deal on it. It's a high-end motor home but the owner that had it wanted to go to what all the rave was was multiple slides. This only has one slide out room and so he wanted to get one that had two or three slide out rooms and so we picked this up and because of that I think we were able to really get what back in the day was without a doubt a high-end motor home for a reasonable reasonable amount of money and we've enjoyed it. We were fortunate they took excellent care of it. It has a very unique color. I fell in love with the color as soon as I saw it. It's a green color but it's different in different lights. So it's like bright sunlight. It looks completely different than on a cloudier day. So I fell in love with the color. It does have a washer and dryer. Well to be honest with you I've never used the washer. Well yes I have. I've used it a couple of times but more often than not that's a feature I don't use when I camp. We like to camp. We like to go back to nature. We're both bike riders. We have our mountain bikes with us. We haven't gone into the park this trip and we may not go into the park because we are on the wind down but we love to go into Arcadia National Park or anywhere and ride our bikes or ride our bikes at home up along the coast. It's just what we love to do. So we are more outside people. We have kayaks bikes. We like walking. We like nature. So camping. We started camping in a tent way back when and then we bought a used RV, a much smaller RV and we used that for a while and I kind of figured out what I liked and didn't like about the RV it was in. So when we went to buy another RV I kind of had an idea of exactly what I was going to want and so we are very much you know nature type people. I love stargazing. Jay especially loves stargazing and when you're in May and the skies is so beautiful and clear and clean at night that you can see all the stars and all the planets. It's just amazing. So this is what we like. This is what we prefer. I could spend my money on a five-star hotel you know and I stay in nice hotels when I travel for business if I'm going on a convention etc but this is my happy type of lifestyle. And when I'm camping I don't tend to get all dolled up at all. You know I'm very playing when I go on vacations usually. I'm going to do have my land called Lipion and I have eye makeup on. I actually have for sharing black eyeliner on so I know I'm not supposed to but I do and yeah and I just kind of clip some of my hair up and some of it down and I have no idea it's kind of overcast today. I don't know what the day is going to bring but Jay has his closing at 130 so he can probably he's going to drop off his paperwork afterwards. He can probably hit the road and be on his way back up here and by say 3 30 maybe 4 o'clock and but I'm not going to see him till maybe 9 9 30 maybe even 10 I don't know it all depends on how the road's off for him. It's a five-hour ride a little quicker in the car obviously but he does make a lot of stops so I won't see him till tonight but tomorrow night we're having our grand lobster finale. We usually have the lobster once or twice when we're here on vacation. We buy lobster fresh steamers fresh clams fresh and we cook them ourselves and we usually go to our friend's campsite and he has a bigger yard than ours and he's waterfront too so we'll be over there doing the lobsters and steamers and I'll probably share some of that with you. I don't know I don't know what the rest of the day is going to bring it's it's overcast but it's not rainy so that's good. I've been sort of editing my vlog. The wi-fi here is horrible as is the cell reception. The vlog number 23 the one that went public this morning Thursday morning I gave Jay on a thumb drive to take home and upload from home which he did otherwise that would never have been able to to be published. There's just no way it would have gone up with the wi-fi situation. I don't know when this will go up but last night I walked around Bar Harbor I didn't get home till really late it was like after 10 and you know it's when Jay left on Tuesday I knew he was going home Tuesday and I decided I was going to do a two-day cleanse while he was gone. I've been trying the isogenic diet program I've mentioned it in passing before it works really well in conjunction with my keto low carb lifestyle so in my keto journey and my low carb journey I've always been all about good carbs you know I'll have a sweet potato on an occasion I'll have all sorts of vegetables and I will have fruits that are like berries strawberries blueberries blackberries raspberries I will have those types of good fruits so the isogenic program really works well with my low carb lifestyle and so I'm really pleased with that because I didn't know how well it was going to mesh with that that lifestyle but anyways I decided I was going to do a two-day cleanse this is my third two-day cleanse in I started this in the beginning of July and actually the end of June so this is my third two-day cleanse that I've done and I decided yes right smack in the middle of vacation I was going to do it and that means I have not had a bite of real food since 4 p.m. on Tuesday and it is now Thursday I think at the time of this filming it's probably a call let me look it's 12 noon time Thursday so I have to go and I could technically break it tonight at four but I'm going to go until tomorrow morning I want to have two overnight of no food so I'm I'm taking the supplements that are required to take with it but this is a deep metabolical cleanse and I felt so good after I did it the first two times that I knew that you know I'm going to do it once a month so I just thought you know in the middle of my vacation with Jay gone for two days and then have to cook it be absolutely perfect and so far it has been it's worked out really well so yeah so I don't know you know I have no idea what the rest of today is I do know lobster tomorrow when Jay gets here later tonight it'll be too late but I may go out somewhere I'm not too sure I had I had a great time going downtown bar harbor last night even though it's by myself I went in and out of the shops and I always feel so safe and so comfortable here this is our 18th year camping here in our 18th year camping on this particular spot so I know the campground well I know the people well I've met friends here I have friends here and then downtown bar harbor I know my way around so I got on the shuttle bus it took a while to get down there and then I missed the eight o'clock coming back and I've already mentioned that or not but I missed that coming back and came back on the nine o'clock which meant I got back here later than I had originally anticipated but that's okay I had a great I had a great night in it it made my whole day go by super super fast and in the morning I went shopping with my friends and I actually found some B Venom cream in TJ Maxx up here I couldn't believe it you know when you least expect it you see it so anyways I thought I'd end this now because I know I'm probably rambling way more than I should oh I wanted to also say you probably saw my Instagram clips that I added you know Instagram being more of a portrait vertical mode because it's cell phone it's really difficult to add clips to a regular video but I did I did so many Instagram clips yesterday I really wanted to share it with you because it's all about going down to bar harbor and then of course you saw the two tail ends of the the clips that I did with my this camera so anyways that's a scoop guy here's my lobby big boy art show jay here's mine just leaving the campground and we are heading to scooting point I'm hoping that we don't have a ton of people over there but you never know so that's our our destination I don't know ultimately what else we're gonna do or where else we're gonna end up but we packed a lunch so we're gonna have a lunch either on the rocks or we're gonna trespass in a spot we always trespass it except it's tradition to be with Mike and Judy yeah but they went early anyway yeah so anyways that's the scoop we're at scootic and I just filmed jay opening up a couple of packs of his cards over there for his channel if you don't know it jay has a channel and he does mainly sports cards and collectibles things of that nature but scooting point is part of akkadian national and it's just I used to say it was really the quiet part of akkadian national because it did never really had a whole lot of traffic but since they last year last couple years they've been working on a campground over here and they opened it up last year and this year so the traffic coming in you could see a lot of people out and about probably I don't know probably 75 percent more people here now that the campgrounds open if not more but still we usually come here and take her you know take a ride through this section walk the rocks and then we go find a place to have a a picnic lunch right honey have the video come out babe I'm looking at it looks like it's okay pretty good cool so I'm hired yeah I'll keep you I guess he likes the way I filmed his video for him sometimes it's hard to do a video when you're like just holding a heavier camera than you're used to and you don't have a tripod but I'm going to walk over here hoping you get to see a little bit of um it's just really it's really cool here so you know when we camp I must say that I always say how much I love it how pretty these spots are and you know beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder and you know for me I love soft sandy beaches and I love the Caribbean and tropical places we've been to we've done bareboating you know in the virgin islands we've done bareboating the virgin islands we've done you know we've gone to the Cayman Islands we've gone to oh my gosh we've Hawaii we've we've done a lot of tropical islands and sandy beaches and I absolutely love it but close to home you know the rocky shoreline the smell of that heavy salt in the air to me is just absolutely perfect and wow I just saw a fin come up who knows but to me it's absolutely you know stunning and perfect yeah we still have our picnic table this is the place that just this little empty little abandoned well I don't think it's abandoned it's for sale shack but it has an amazing water view and every year we've come here and had a little picnic lunch always with Mike and Judy and this is actually where I dropped my camera last year and busted my lens and now it's going to be just Jay and I enjoying a little picnic here at this table I didn't bring a picnic uh table tablecloth that's usually Judy who thinks of all that stuff she's so domesticated she brings tablecloths she brings little paper plates Monica and Jay we just rough it right babe I would love to own this little spot really would it's like I mean the house is a tear down for sure did we price how much they wanted for this I don't know a couple hundred thousand probably a couple hundred thousand but it's the lot the lot is like amazing I think anyways beautiful views this way I'm gonna do it turn around and amazing views this way ah really awesome views and every year they just they still leave that picnic table for us I think they know we come here and they probably say you know when the McGillicuddies come they need to have a place to have lunch I think so like I said we always come here with our friends Mike and Judy and we always sit on this picnic table well today I put our measly spread out we had all our cameras on the table my phone his phone our drinks his sports cards everything and he was sitting right where he is except his feet were under the table eating and I came around and sat next to him and sat down put my feet under the table I was the dipping point we went head over tea kettle and the picnic table was on top of us with our feet wedged in the feet went back just like this he's like oh and I'm like it was so it was so shocking I didn't know whether to get mad then I just started laughing I had just opened up a can of diet ginger ale I'm wearing it all over my bum because the can went down before I did in it it it poured out so now that my bum is you could drink ginger ale off my wet bum seriously oh my gosh it was so funny wasn't it yeah it was classic oh if if our friends were here it wouldn't happen because we now to come to think of it there's always four of us and we always balanced out the table perfectly just couldn't handle my weight it was funny it really was thankfully we're not hurt thankfully Jay decided to laugh at it instead of getting mad the funniest thing was trying to figure out how to get the picnic table off of us and get out of the situation we were in so we decided one of us had to climb out first so Jay did and I was stayed wedged and he climbed out and he boundless the table and held it so I could scoot out and once I was out you know he let the table go until I was able to stand up and we would rearrange the table but the weirdest thing is you know we had an open container of a May tuna fish that landed right side up none of the tuna fish fell out we had a bunch of sliced cheese it stayed in the container even though it was open none of it fell out the only last one piece of cheese one piece of cheese oh my gosh and and my my diet ginger ale that I'm wearing that was all and of course Jay has a very expensive camera and he has expensive lens on it so he was worried about that but that was that was fine but if you could have seen us oh my gosh unbelievably stupid McGillicuddies