Today has been a rather pleasant day. Flo (our GPS) took us into Lake Placid last night the "back way" (I'm guessing on that).
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| This morning we left Lake Placid through town. Here is the front view of our hotel. Though it was a last minute decision, the Crowne Plaza Hotel was a solid decision. |
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| Very nice room and a pretty great view. Room service was also pretty great. |
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| I wish we had the time, and knowledge, to explore the town by foot before having to rush out. In case you didn't know, Lake Placid was the home to the 1932 and 1980 winter Olympics. I realize it's been 30 years since the last Olympics was held there, but the town has embraced its history and still offers various attractions related to the winter games. |
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| You can bet that had we stayed one more day there, I would have tried bobsledding! Not so much the ski jump. Given some more time, I would love to go back to Lake Placid. |
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| From Lake Placid we drove across Northern New York to the Town of Essex. Along the drive were street signs indicating turnaround spots for snow plows. I thought they were funny. Never could get one on camera though. Essex is the kind of town I think of when I think about a small town. |
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| In Essex, we caught a ferry. |
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| Rode it across Lake Champlain. |
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| Took a family self-portrait. |
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| And 20 minutes after take-off, arrived safely in Vermont. No state sign to welcome up to Vermont so the sign indicating the distance to Burlington will have to do. I can excuse Vermont for not having a state sign here. Though I would appreciate one in the future. Thanks! |
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| About 45 minutes after crossing the ferry, we landed at Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Factory. |
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| We toured the graveyard of lost flavors. |
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| Got some free ice cream after a tour of the factory and picked up a souvenir t-shirt. Then we had some fun taking pictures. |
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| And again! |
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| We left Ben and Jerry's and headed towards New Hampshire. New Hampshire's state sign was too small. If the New England states keep this up we might have words. |
A quick note about Vermont and New Hampshire. Highway exits and highway mile-markers are not the same. In Kentucky, if you take exit 14, it's called 14 because it occurs at the 14th mile-marker of the highway. In these two states, the exits are called by the number in which they occur on the highway. For instance, if you take exit 2, it is the 2nd exit off of that highway, however, it may be 14 miles past the first one. Just a bit of a heads up if you are needing gas or looking for food and are at exit 4 and the next exit for both is at exit 2 (it's probably 30 miles away).
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| Our entrance into Maine finally saw a decent state sign! |
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| We had to pay a couple of tolls, and after missing our exit, finally arrived at our hotel. |
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| We're staying at The Colony Hotel, an historic hotel with what is, I'm assuming, historic wallpaper. |
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| It's okay though. With our windows open and the view from our room, all you can hear are the waves crashing upon the shore. |
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| After quickly checking in, we had to make our way to the beach. Brrrr!!!!! The water is cold but the pedicure in the sand was free and totally worth a run into the water. |
Tomorrow we are staying in Kennebunkport for another night. The agenda, so far, is to see the sun rise on the beach, find a lighthouse, go sailing if the weather is good, and maybe track down the old Bush residence. Until then, I think I'll just listen to the waves.
