Our last day in Montreal. We spent the morning visiting various Basilicas that were interesting. Finally made it to Notre Dame only to find out they charge $10 admission. I never heard of admission to enter a church! But heck, I guess they need to get their donation somehow. I wonder if I could write it off as charity? :oP We went to 3 Basilicas in total and needless to say, the Church had a lot of money back then, and you can certainly see it in their churches.
We left Montreal around 1:00 p.m. and headed toward NY to Fort Ticonderoga. We went through quite the border crossing. They had us stop our car, turn off the engine and give them the keys. Then they had a VERY large German Shepard sniff the cars. Good thing I had my window up! The dog found something in the car ahead of us so that car got stopped for a more thorough search while they let us pass. We had to inform the guards that we needed our keys back to move on... Good thing I ditched all the left over cold prosciutto and cheese and grapes before crossing the border!
Our drive today was another beautiful drive. We came across some place called the Ausable Chasm. It's a bridge that overlooks some falls and gorges... We stopped there. On the way to view the falls, Rick saw a snake and was not very happy about that. See picture of the snake! He was also not very happy about walking on the bridge so high up. He did however rally and got out there to he can take a picture of me. Poor thing, he was not in a good place. His fear of heights was very evident here. I told him that I could tell the family that he saw a snake, got scared and fell off the bridge... He informed me that it would only prove that his fears are well founded! Anyway, it was a beautiful, unplanned stop.
We got to Fort Ticonderoga around 4:30 p.m. They close at 5:00 so we got there just in time. Very cool place Jack. The drive into the fort was really picturesque as well as the fort itself.
We left the fort and headed toward Vermont. There were not too many places to eat dinner on the way so we drove to Woodstock and had dinner at a place called Bentley's. Rosie had French onion soup and Rick had a chili burger and a Caesar salad. Oh yeah, and I ordered a blackberry/apple pie. The pie itself was very good except for a slight taste of ham... weird. I confirmed it with Rick. Yeah, it had a slight taste of ham to it.
After dinner we went to the October Country Inn and checked in. This place has no TV! What are we going to do with no TV for 3 nights??? I hate not having TV! At least we have wireless access. So, that is our day today. Back in the USofA!
5 comments:
So glad you guys are having a good time. Isn't the Ausable Chasm georgous? We stopped there as well and our pictures look exactly the same as yours with all the colors. We didn't see any snakes though...thank goodness!
Hopefully you can manage for a few days without a TV. And if you get desperate, there is a sports bar not too far away...you can guess who had to visit that establishment on our trip to ensure he didn't miss a minute of World Series action!
Enjoy the rest of your time!
Cool snake! I will have to show it to Luke. He will get back to you on what kind it is, etc. Awesome pictures. Hope you survive "roughing it" without TV!
Why would you two honeymooners even be concerned about the lack of TV ???? The October Country Inn looks like a gorgerous place. I'm sure you're enjoying it. Take lots some Fall. Good tip from Deb & Jack!
Sounds like the events of yesterdday represented a couple of Rick's worst nightmares. A snake and a high bridge over a gorge-WOW!
Glad he survived. Hope today was a little less traumatic. Looks like the weather continues to cooperate.
Well I checked with our snake expert, Luke, and he used his "North American Reptile and Amphibians guide" to discover that your snake is a Eastern Milk Snake. Little is known about this species and it feeds on lizards and small rodents. Exciting stuff!
Lizards and small rodents?!?!? I was pretty sure that snake was sizing me up to see if he could take me. Are you sure there wasn't anything in that guide about them eating slow, fat guys?
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