October 11, 2008

This is our last full day in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire. We got up this morning and did a couple loads of wash (exciting). About 11:00 we headed to downtown Lincoln where they were having a little craft/arts fair. Because it's Columbus Day weekend there are noticeably many more cars around. The weather was glorious (again), and we spent about 45 minutes looking at the booths. Nothing too much interesting, but fun to see what other people sell as "art". We at lunch at the Gypsy Cafe across the street. It was very cute and had delicious sandwiches.

We drove around for sometime trying to decide where to go for a hike. There were so many people on the Notch that we decided to drive to as area west of Lincoln called Lost River. This turned out to be a very interesting area. It cost $13 to see the Lost River, but was not like anything I have ever seen. It was an area in which huge granite boulders (the size a house) came crashing down on the river. There were lots of caves and hiding places along the trail to explore. We went down 500 stairs, but walked up very gradually with lots of scenery, so we hardly noticed the stairs. It was a beautiful presentation of nature.

Driving back into Lincoln was really something with all the traffic. We made our way back to the resort and decided to finish up our apples, pretzels, apple sauce, and carrots for dinner. Yummy. No sense in getting back out there in that mess.

Before we head to Boston tomorrow, we're going to a church service on top of the mountain. We ride the gondola up to the top for the service. We met some people who went last week and recommended it. Sounds pretty cool. We certainly want to give thanks for these last two fantastic weeks.