Eco Visit's Rockland Maine

[ECO]

This Friday I'm going to Rockland Maine for.........get ready for this...........Lobsterfest 2009. http://www.mainelobsterfestival.com/

The joy of watching people standing in long lines to eat lobster while I chow on on a veggie wrap is about as entertaining as it gets. They do have an area for the kids to play with marine life but people look at me weird when I play with the critters while kids are waiting in line. Assuming our hotel has internet access I post some pictures to kill some time.

[Rose21]

Veggie wraps! Don't you like sea scavengers?

[ECO]

Veggie wraps! Don't you like sea scavengers?

I use to love eating lobster until one year I treated myself to an all you can eat lobster dinner. I had so many of them I lost my love for them. I'm sure someday I'll have one again but since it's been a few years without them I'm pretty sure my time will not be this weekend. Plus lobsters eat dead decaying crap and that's sort of sick IMO.

Crabs..... I miss the ones from Maryland with the bay seasoning! But crabs just like lobsters eat a horrible diet, heck crabs even eat dead people.

Clams.......I love them and clam chowder! From time to time I'll order some steamers if I'm drinking beer so my vision is blurry enough to miss how nasty they look. I've tried raw clams or mussels once and I didn't see the point of paying money for them just to cover them up with lemon and or hot sauce, the feeling of those slimy things in my mouth was a little too much....never again.

I like fish if it tastes like fish. I'm not a big fan of cod, scrod, and I forget the other one they serve at most seafood places up here. IMO fish without taste that is covered in batter and deep fried is garbage. I like a nice tasty trout, bass, stripper, yellow or red stripe that is cooked without batter or tons of spices. I also like flounder/fluke even though they are bottom feeders.

[Rose21]

I see your take on the lobsters...too much of one thing at the same time would turn the mind away from it. Clams, mussels, Ewwwwww!! Irefuse to try them.

[ECO]

I don't care what Lobster eats I love Lobster. Wouldn't mind if I had a tail at this moment.

Are you talking about real cold water lobsters or those spiny tail ones you have down there?

[Wahoo]

I bet the real reason Eco's going to Lobsterfest is to compete in the "Real Maine Men" contest.

[ECO]

How do you know what kind of lobsters we have? I don't care what kind of lobster it is. cold water, spiny tail, once it looks like a lobster and swims like a lobster and taste like one, I am eating it.

Correct like if I'm wrong but I thought you folks only have the spiny tail ones down there. If so feel blessed because the ones up here with claws can bite your fingers off.

[Wahoo]

My college GF moved to Auburn, Maine, after we graduated, and I flew up that summer to visit for a week. On departure day, on the drive to the airport, we stopped off at one of the local lobster shops so I could get two live lobsters to take back to my folks in central Virginia. As I disembarked the plane and entered the terminal in Virginia carrying my cardboard box with "Live Lobsters" on the sides, you'd have thought from people's wide-eyed stares that they'd never seen a live lobster before. In most cases, they probably hadn't.

[Rose21]

I love lobsters and crabs, as nasty as they are, i would eat them till the sun comes up. Why is it that food that some people claim are not good to eat always taste soooooo good?!!

[ECO]

Eco, you can express the Lobsters you don't want to me but don't use DHL.

Go out and catch them on your own, the spiny ones don't bite, they are like retarded snails.

[ECO]

My college GF moved to Auburn, Maine, after we graduated, and I flew up that summer to visit for a week. On departure day, on the drive to the airport, we stopped off at one of the local lobster shops so I could get two live lobsters to take back to my folks in central Virginia. As I disembarked the plane and entered the terminal in Virginia carrying my cardboard box with "Live Lobsters" on the sides, you'd have thought from people's wide-eyed stares that they'd never seen a live lobster before. In most cases, they probably hadn't.

15 years ago I worked for a large company in Maine that had locations all over the US. For our new store's grand opening everyone from all over flew in for a clambake so the store ordered a whole pallet of lobsters in the coolers with dry ice and seaweed. Back up a little, I got a friend of mine a job working night shift.....he had sticky fingers......at 8am the day of the clambake he showed up to my condo with the back of his truck loaded with the pallet of lobsters. Being a nice guy and thankful for the job I got him, he gave me two lobsters.

My brother and I had fun letting the lobsters run around all over our condo and over a few hours they were like pets....with rubber bands on their claws so they would not kill us. When it came time for dinner we could not muster up the courage to kill our new friends so we gave them to our neighbors. Our neighbors thought we were crazy giving away lobsters since we treated them like pets....until they started to play with them and their hearts melted like butter. Lol, they ended up taking them to the ocean and set them free after taking off their rubber bands.

The moral of my story is don't make friends with your dinner and just because your potential dinner eats shiit off of the ocean floor does not mean that you can't bond and be friends.

[Wahoo]

My mama taught me not to play with my food.

[Wahoo]

Have a good time at Lobsterfest 2009 tomorrow, Eco. And if I hear that you buy a lobster and release it back into the ocean, I'll give you a public pineappling myself at the next JAB reunion!

[ECO]

Have a good time at Lobsterfest 2009 tomorrow, Eco. And if I hear that you buy a lobster and release it back into the ocean, I'll give you a public pineappling myself at the next JAB reunion!

I'm bringing my camera and rolling a little spliff for one. Speaking of which I need to get rolling....um I mean packing for my trip.

[ECO]

Eco please bring me back two lobsters. Thanks.

How about some nice New England clam chowder (pronounced chow daa) instead?

It just dawned on me that I have no clue if our hotel has wireless internet access. Can you imagine me heading off to a place without knowing if my phone will even work let alone it's internet browser..........or my laptop back in the hotel room. I'm getting the shakes thinking about it.......so my normal world as I know it might change over the next few days and you want lobsters

[ECO]

After a 5 hour drive in the rain I'm here in Maine. I took a few pictures on the way up but with all of the rain on the windows they did not turn out that great.

I'm going down to the pool to teach my kids the fine art of peeing in public pools.

[Rose21]

After a 5 hour drive in the rain I'm here in Maine. I took a few pictures on the way up but with all of the rain on the windows they did not turn out that great.

I'm going down to the pool to teach my kids the fine art of peeing in public pools.

Let the fun begin!

[ECO]

The kids had a blast in the pool but the chemicals killed my eyes after 15-20 minutes. Since the pool was indoors the temperature was perfect!

We were suppose to attend a BBQ this evening but the heavy rain laughed at our plans Someone got a great idea to go out to eat at a sports bar.....IMO not the best place to bring kids when the live band starts at 8pm and the crowd is the drinking type. The only good part about the dinner was they offered my 7 year old to be in their float in the parade in the morning..........some of our family know the owners so I'm cool with her being in the parade.

The forecast looks great for the parade and the rest of the lobster fest events on Saturday.

[Wahoo]

I'm going down to the pool to teach my kids the fine art of peeing in public pools.

I always pee in the pool ever since those damned birds stole my Coco Loco.



"I can't wait to see the fat guy's face when he returns from el bano and finds his Coco Loco gone..."

[ECO]

BB, I got about 20 pictures of her in the parade and a little over 200 of the whole parade. I'll have to spent some time over the next few days finding some nice ones to post. The parade had a great turnout, it seems like most of the local business' had floats along with hundreds of those dressed out Go-Karts the the Shrines and others use. Watching the kids go after all of the candy that the people on the floats tossed out was fun. A few bad kids kept going after my 3 year old's candy when she bent down to pick it up......I guess first come first serve even though I thought it was rude.

Going for another swim in the indoor pool and then off to the craft market. I gave the kids a collection of 70 one dollar bills for the rides today.....I'll be shocked if they have any of the money left over.