New Hampshire and Vermont

This is more of the White Mountains in NH.

We went to visit John and Kathy Gorton in Nortthern VT.  This is just a sample of John's "toys."

Here's John with some more of his toys.

This is Kathy with their youngest grandchild.  You remember this couple.  They stayed with you three while we went to Spain. 

This is Brr Morse.  He runs a maple syrup operation here in VT.  He told us how he does it and had us in stitches the whole time. 

We visited the capital, Montpelier, Vt.

We also visited the Rock of Ages granite quarry.  It is huge.  That rock face is about 600 feet with about 60 feet more under the water.

People put strange headstones on their graves made of ....you guessed it,  VT. granite.

We visited a glass blower.

And we went to Ben and Jerry's  for a tour.   The best part was the tasting at the end.  We also bought a scoop after the tour.  Yum

And of course we went to the Teddy Bear factory for a tour.  We didn't get a sample here.

We got our picture made on this BIG bear sofa.

We went to a farm type of museum here in Shelbourn,VT.

There is the Tyconderoga on the property.  We saw a film about how it was moved from Lake Champlain for 10 or 12 mile to the museum.  It use to take people across the lake from NY to VT before a bridge was built.

As you can see we've been busy, but have been having a good time so far.  Tomorrow we go into Canada so there won't be a blog until after September 24.  bye for now.