A wonderful trip to Fort Drum, NY

We just returned home from a wonderful trip to Fort Drum to visit Suzanne and Richard - Don's Sister and Brother-in-law. We had such a nice visiting with everyone and Juliette especially loved playing with her cousins Madeleine and Will. The leaves and the fall colors were amazing. Matter of fact they were in peak color the week that we were there. The weather was downright cold. We took a road trip 2 hours east to Lake Placid and by the time we got there it was snowing. Now that is crazy! They say that it gets unbelievably cold there since the lake is right in the mountains.

We went to dinner in Lake Placid one evening and met this wonderful man (we met him because he was sitting by himself and Juliette was insistent on bringing him a warm cookie that the Inn had just baked her). She walked over to him and Mr. Jay was shocked. Anyway, he invited us to his "Camp" and told us that he would take us out int he boat. We went to his "camp" the next day and had a wonderful afternoon getting sitting by a fire, getting a history lesson on "boat sheds" of Lake Placid and then took a lovely ride around the lake. To say that he lived on a "camp" was being quite modest. The place had been in his family since he was a boy and it was just amazing, It had been built around 1910 and it was just an experience that none of us will forget.

The trip was great but boy was I ready to get back to the beautiful fall sunny days here in Charleston.

Juliette singing with her cousins

Check out the 29 pound salmon I caught!

One SUPER chilly morning salmon fishing

My exhausted little girl... she never took a breath the whole vacation

"Look Mommy it's really snowing!"

Cousin Will and Juliette at a fancy dinner sipping on Shirley Temples

Suzanne, Don, Juliette and Mr. Jay

a picture on Lake Placid

Suzanne, Will and Madeleine

Here is my foot loose and fancy free little girl dancing away on the lake. She is putting on a show for all of her imaginary friends

Juliette was amazed at the fabulous assortment of the colored  leaves

Lake Placid, NY

On the boat ride with Mr. Jay

Juliette even brought an extra cookie for Mr. Jay