Day 2 of our weekend in the White Mountains

     Saturday morning came pretty quickly for my wife and I, it was hard to drag our butts out of bed, but managed to get to breakfast by 8:30. Breakfast was ok, average, which is perfectly fine with me. I love food, and I love great food (I hate the term "foodie") but breakfast on a Saturday morning, before hiking, I didn't need anything special, just eggs, bacon, home fries and toast. We packed a bunch of water and snacks, including my favorite, carrot sticks, for a day of hiking.

     Now when I say carrot sticks, I do not mean the over priced bag of baby carrots, go out and buy a five pound bag of carrots, I like mine pealed, I cut them into sticks, put them in a Tupperware bowl filled with water and leave in the fridge, they will stay fresh and crispy for at least a week. They are cheaper and taste way better than the baby carrots, which are not baby carrots anyhow.

     We headed off to Tin Mountain, about a five minute ride from our inn. The staff at our inn said Tin Mountain was good snowshoeing/hiking and provided great views. My wife and I are novice hiker, actually we are novice exercisers, if I were being truthful, but what we lack in ability, we make up for in stupidity and stubbornness. We agreed to go to the summit (stupid) and given the fact, neither of us would ever tell the other we quit (stubborn) we set off for the summit. It was actually not that bad, the weather was perfect and the trail was a good mix of easy, medium and hard levels. Now I am not sure how true hikers would describe it, or what lingo they would use, so I have included a great blog post from some guy who calls himself "1happyhiker." This guy does a nice job describing the trails and posting pics, I started thinking, my blog needs a lot of work after reading his. I do think I got a few decent pics though...

My beautiful wife.      

  

So my wife and I hiked for about 4 hours, and then searched for lunch. We found a decent place north, in Gorham, sorry Tara, Saalt Pub was closed. On the drive back to our inn, I made my wife stop every 5 min, in search of the perfect picture, she loves when I do that. No perfect pictures,  but I got some good ones.

     I love taking photos, looking for the perfect subject, great composition and color, and then find the perfect picture, in the picture, and crop it. Not that I am saying these are great mind you. The real trick is to take a crappie picture, and turn it into something good. So, my day of snowshoeing with my wife, was a great success, we had fun together, and enjoyed each other's company. Life is good when your spouse is your best friend.

     So we headed back to the inn, I for one, was looking forward to the hot tub! Hot tub, shower and then dinner. Again, we got dressed up, my wife in a nice black dress, with some really hot shoes, and me in my new suit! Dinner was good, we were very happy with the food at the inn, and again, the wait staff was great. But, the real star of dinner was not the food, or dessert, or the staff, but, our St.Germain and Champagne Cocktail. We ordered dessert and the recommended pairing for my wife's dessert was a, St. Germain Champagne Cocktail. It is, by far, the best after dinner drink I have had! I hope you try it, I am sure you will love it as well.