the trout swims: Firsts

During my first summer as a Vermont resident there are bound to be a number of other firsts. My first visitors, outside of my family, came up in June for a long weekend. Kati, Paul and Joey flew up the last weekend in June. Kati and Paul came up Friday and we spent the first couple hours having margaritas and mexican on the waterfront of Lake Champlain. Paul was very patient with Kati and I as we talked and talked, as we love to do. I'm sure he was glad to see Joey when he came up Saturday. We immediately got on the road to the lake and after a pit stop in Plainfield for lunch we got there just in time for cocktail hour. We also decded to have some fresh lobster, Kati had a little trouble with the process of tearing the lobster to pieces in order to eat it. She also discovered that she most likely has a shellfish allergy, which is unfortunate because shellfish is delicous and she was sick the rest of the night. She was feeling much better by morning, unfortunately for our plans to lay out, the weather was terrible all weekend, but this didn't stop the boys from finding fish and they spent a lot of time in the brooks and streams nearby, as well as casting off the dock. So while Kati, my mom and I visited across the lake, chatted and drank wine, the boys caught their own breakfast. Our last day there it poured down rain, literally all day, so we spent the day napping and watching movies. Not the most exciting vacation for my Cincinnati friends, but it was still really great to see them all and I was sad to see them go.