Summer is coming to a close so I’d like to reflect on the wonderful trip I took to Maine. It was filled with delicious food, good friends, lots of laughter, a sea lion, and the coldest swim this Florida girl has ever had in her life. Here are 10 things I learned in Maine this summer:

1. Steamers are deliciousness

2. Eating outside is such a beautiful luxury

3. No internet = awesome trips to the library

4. Lobstermen are amazingly chatty folk

5. Shedders are my new favorite type of lobster

6. Morning cups of coffee taste so much better outside

7. Maine is a great place to shoot a moody album cover

8. When you have an excess of lobster you make lobster mac-n-cheese of course!

9. Watching for sea lions is hard work

10. I can eat a lot of lobster!!!