Lobsters & Mansions

Maine

Maine

Rhode Island

Rhode Island

Rhode Island

My family visited NYC a couple months ago and we took a trip to Maine. Maine is the best. I highly recommend it to everyone. We ate a lot of lobster and also a lot of lobster rolls. Since returning to NYC, any time I see the word "lobster roll" in a restaurant window, I instinctively want to stop. Yesterday, we tried a place we just discovered called Luke's Lobster. The owner's dad is a lobsterman in Maine and so the owner uses only Maine lobsters in his rolls. I was skeptical, but the roll was as good as the ones we ate in Maine and whatever spices he used were PERFECT. Also, the blueberry ice cream was divine (after visiting Maine I am also a sucker for blueberries--that is how great the trip was).

In other updates, we celebrated our first anniversary. Crazy that it's already been a year. Awesome year, can't wait for year 2. We took a weekend trip to the coast of Rhode Island and it was beautiful. We stayed in a town famous for its 150-year-old mansions. The mansions sit on a cliff overlooking the ocean and so you can walk along a 10-mile path (reminiscent of the Cinque Terre, if anyone has been there) and on your left, about 50 feet below, you see the ocean breaking against the rocks, and on your right, you see these towering, stately mansions that were used as summer homes by the 19th centery elite. We also ate delicious seafood and chowder and explored the coast. Excellent way to commemorate.