T Stands for The Start of My Trip-Part 1

   Hi everyone. Happy new week and T day to those of you who stop by with your drinks. You might have noticed I've missed T Day  over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog  for the last couple of weeks. For those of you who don't know, my husband, the 2 dogs and myself took a giant roadtrip  to Nova Scotia. Neither my husband nor myself had ever been there, and it was as beautiful as we'd thought it would be.

    Here's a map for those of you who may not be familiar with the area I'm talking about. I added the red line and green circles which are a rough estimate of our trip.The green circles are in the general area of places we visited (and in some cases stayed) and the red lines are our general route.  The red dots are places we stayed.

   Before we went to Nova Scotia, we spent a couple of days in Maine. We did that because we took a ferry that went from Bar Harbor, Maine across the Gulf of Maine over to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Originally we had planned to just go to Bar Harbor for a night so we wouldn't have to rush there on the day we were catching the ferry, but then I suggested we go up a day early and stop over in Belfast, Maine. I love Belfast because to me it is quintessential coastal Maine without being too crazy touristy.  I have been antsy to go back there for a visit for awhile now. (Belfast is the lower green circle and Bar Harbor is the upper one.)

    I'll fill you in on the ferry in another post, but  for T today I'm sharing a few views from Belfast.   The top photo is one I took while we were having dinner the evening we arrived. I'm sharing dinner further down in this post. The next photos are harbor views the next morning.

    If you wonder why I have so many harbor photos that's because one of my husband's favorite things are boats. When we go someplace where there is a harbor we are always taking a spin through. 😏

    As you probably have already guessed, one of my favorite things is art. There is a shop in Belfast that I love to visit when I'm there. 

     One side of the store is all about fabric. They had their Halloween fabric out, and I had to just walk by it, no looking, 😞. (OK, I did take a few peeks.) Otherwise I could have bought a bunch of material I don't really need. The other side of the store has art supplies. I only took one photo of that side because I was too busy looking at all the various media and materials.  I still had to remind myself that it was only day 1 of the trip and that the car was pretty full (we did have to keep room for the dogs to stretch out), so I settled for a few replacement markers, a new Staz On ink pad and a roll of book binding tape (because mine is almost gone). But I could have spent a lot of money in that store. 😁

  For breakfast on our morning in Belfast we went to this  cafe where we have eaten before. The walls have these fun murals on them. I might have shown photos of this cafe a couple of years ago for T day, but even if you don't remember them you can see the cup of coffee so this works as a T day drink.

     For my actual T day drink this week, I'm going to share where we had dinner.  It's another place we have been to before. It is called Marshal Wharf Brewing Company, and they have a really big and tasty beer menu. (Not that I had beer for dinner, but I had beer with my dinner. 😉)

    They are located right on the water so we had a great view of the sunset from our table.

  And they allow dogs to come in too. This is kind of a weird shot of Mr. Pete.

  Here's my T day drink photo. My husband decided on one beer, and I couldn't decide so I had a flight.

   For dinner we both had a grilled cheese sandwich, and instead of chips I substituted some clam chowder. It was a tasty dinner. 👍

   I think this post is long enough, so that's it for me. Wishing everyone a happy T Day and week ahead also.