Day 23: Lake Morey - Fairlee, VT

Today was another picture perfect day at the lake. Lots of kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding, and swimming. We skipped out on hiking up any crazy tall hills today.

There really isn't much to say that was different from yesterday. We did opt to explore the surrounding areas a bit and not eat all of our meals here at the resort. The food is good, but $$$. So at lunchtime we headed out into the town of Fairlee. There are a small handful of little restaurants. We thought we'd hit a diner, turns out it's closed on Mondays. Mike's google search led us to the Whippi Dip, a combination food truck/ice cream shop kind of thing. It's a very tiny little building that isn't much more than a kitchen. There were a few picnic tables outside. Lunch was decent. Bought the kids ridiculously huge ice cream cones afterwards. They ordered smalls, hate to see what anything larger would have been!  We drove around a bit after lunch, mainly scouting for a place for dinner. The town of Bradford is about 7 miles up the road. Cute little town, enough of one to warrant a tiny little main street complete with parking. The dam is actually quite picturesque - it's sort of built into the rocks on the cliff side. The water flowing over the damn mingles with that coming over the rocks into this very pretty waterfall. Odd, but interesting site.

We also drove over into New Hampshire, to the town of Orford. Again, we were scouting for restaurants. There was one over there, a bit too upscale for us for tonight, reservations required, heart shaped restaurant sign. Not ideal for those of us on the very ends of our laundry that has to last us about 3 more days.

After an afternoon of more kayaking, paddle boarding, canoeing, and swimming, and me falling asleep in a lounge chair, we ended up back in Bradford for dinner. Found a decent Italian place. Well, it was that or the chinese place next door. Crazy busy, but when you're the only game in town, and the 5 surrounding towns for that matter, I'd guess that's a routine occurrence. Food was good, service was REALLY slow.

We also took advantage of the slightly bigger town's grocery store and stocked up on some provisions for our upcoming camping in Acadia, and gassed up the car. We're good to go on up to Maine tomorrow.

Everyone is a bit sad to be leaving the lake, it's been a fantastic, relaxing couple of days. A nice midway point in the trip. The boys have done exceedingly well on all the various boating apparatuses. It was fun to be able to let them go out on their own and know they'd be OK.

And, apparently, you can make quite a bit of leather out of a jack rabbit. Don't ask. Well, maybe ask Ben about that one.