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Kayaking Lake Champlain
Ben and Annie, our awesome friends who live down the street from us, invited us to join them for some kayaking.
Seriously, it’s been pouring rain here the month of June, so anytime it’s sunny, you have to take advantage of it RIGHT AWAY!
Ben and Rick were the first out on the water. Lake Champlain is so beautiful.
Then the women had a turn! Can you believe Annie gave birth less than 2 weeks ago!?
She really knows how to push it to the limit!
This is pretty much what happened when Rick and I hit the water! Typical!
While we were out on the water, Rick said, “Wow, Burlington is really a very pretty town,” as we could see churches poke their white steeples skywards, through the blankets of green trees.
It’s so charming here. I will be sad to leave. Sort of.
Not really.
(You can only handle -18 degree temps in the winter for so long before you go into a depression.)
From the lake, Burlington looks so beautiful and incredible.
Ben and Annie, thanks for the great time! You guys are a blast.
So, I took my cutting sheers to my head last week. Like, not only one day, but 4 days in a row.
I kept cutting.
And cutting.
And cutting.
Rick would come home and see a pile of cut hair in the bathroom trash. “Babe, seriously, you cut MORE today?!”
“Dood, FREE HAIRCUT!”
It’s a crap shoot to get your hair done in Vermont. They charge you to blow dry your hair.
So, you can’t really avoid getting your hair dried, because there is some dry cutting that happens too.
So frustrating! Whose idea was it to charge to blow dry your clients hair?!
I was going for an 80’s Shag. A little rocker do.
Any thoughts?
(I’ve always adored Farrah Fawcett, to say the least…what a hair inspiration she was! No, seriously.)
WORD!
This is how it WAS:
ACK!
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
And when in Vermont, do as the Vermonters do, right? Well, yesterday was a prime example of doing what the Vermonters do!
In the summer months, Lake Champlain is usually dotted with sailboats, kayaks, powerboats, and swimmers. However, when you turn to the winter months you will find Lake Champlain dotted with cars, trucks, shanties, snowmobiles, four-wheelers, and of course…the ice fishermen!
Vermonters are all about ice fishing and four wheeling in the winter, which seems to explain the annual ice fishing and four-wheeling trip we take the Young Men of our ward on each February.
Here you can see the extent of the cracking in the ice. It constantly cracks and refreezes with the changing temperature throughout the winter. Is it safe? Right now it is! That ice is eighteen inches thick. But it’s probably a good idea to know how thick it is before driving your car out onto it!
Although it looks nice and warm out there, you had to take our weather cues from the condition of the lake rather than the condition of the sky! It was a frigid 6 degrees with a not-so-pleasant breeze…hence the extra layers.
While the lines were in the water, we took the opportunity to tear around the ice on the wheelers! Here the ice and snow had created a nice natural ramp to launch ourselves off of!
After braving the cold temperatures and risking life and limb out on the frozen lake, one would hope to go home with some nice fish to toss on the grill. Although the fish weren’t biting for us, we did manage to find a few “pre-packed” fish to take home. All you had to do was chisel ’em out of the ice!
Boating, Blueberries and Homemade Jam
Some dear friends of ours took pity on us and took us out for a couple of hours on their boat this past weekend. Wait, let me get this story straight, we sat in the boat, at the dock for 1.5 hours, then we were on the water for about 1.5 hours. It was loads of fun to be on Lake Champlain, in a boat, with Rick. I haven’t been on a boat in FOREVER. These friends even brought their picnic baskets, loaded with gourmet cheeses and crackers, kielbasa, grapes, cherries, sushi ::: be still my beating heart ::: and some other delish food. And there was no way I was going to divulge the fact that we had just eaten dinner in the car, on our way there. Rick and I were all about MORE FOOD, especially this kind! We headed out on the lake right after the sun set.
Rick + Vanessa + Bridgette + August 