North Hero, Vermont

This was our beautiful view everyday while in North Hero Vermont.

Before we go any further I want you to comprehend exactly where I was. I really didn’t know much about Vermont - if you’re like me you think of beautiful fall leaves when you hear “Vermont”. While I still don’t know much, I do know that Burlington is the largest city there and it has a population of less than 40,000! Vermont is small! We could happily live in Burlington - beautiful! But back on track here.

North Hero is a small island in Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain is celebrating it’s 400th year this year and is supposedly the home to Champ - although we never saw him. The world slows down there. It was so peaceful and relaxing I could have stayed for ages.

We got to explore the islands a little while everyone was working. You see, Dennis’s folks are up helping with the North Hero House Inn, so they still had to work while we were there. And Dennis’s aunt works there too. His cousin and partner own and operate the Inn. Hmm, wonder if they need a permanent photographer or two. . .

So, we had some time during the days to wonder the islands and enjoy nature.

Can’t you just feel how slow life is there? If you want to revive I recommend spending some time at the Inn, but beware, the restaurant may add a few pounds to your waistline with their spectacular food!

Meeting the parents

To be honest, I spent all day yesterday playing catch up from being gone. But 12 days of vacation was awesome and I only opened my computer twice the entire time. It was great to totally break up the routine and do something entirely different!

I finally got all my photos onto my computer (about 3000) and haven’t really even looked at them yet. But I know you are dieing to know how the meeting with the in-laws went first and foremost.

It was great! They are the nicest people! I took this photo of Dennis with his mom and dad, his aunt is on the left. All three of them speak Spanish and well, I don’t. So we couldn’t really communicate at all.

Haden was nice enough to shoot this photo for us. We really had a great time visiting. Well, I mostly listened - I comprehend a lot more Spanish than I could ever speak. So I was able to follow the conversations for the most part.

And although Haden shies away from the camera we did weasel him into a photo or two. I’m really happy I got to meet them and am hoping to catch up with them again before they go back to Honduras.