water, water, everywhere

from last night's shenanigans at the downtown grocery to today's exploring, this was probably one of my favorite weekends here so far. lisa and i went to the downtown grocery which is in ludlow- it's a very cute, tasty, but pricey place. it has a great fresh foods menu (they have a garden in the basement and on the roof) and everyone there is super nice. the plan had been to get 1 drink, but we ended up talking to everyone at the bar and the owner until past midnight. haha, which means drunken food search which is very difficult when everything in town closes early evening...but we ate their homemade potato chips and sampled some of their signature mixed cocktails so i'm excited to try out their dinner food tmrw night! 


but anyway, got about 3 hours of sleep but was ready for getting out of green mountain and going for a hike (it helped that i probably ate 3 extra dinners in a "please soak up this alcohol" late last night. we got lost getting to manchester for this hike, so 2 hours later we made it to the lye brook falls trail. it's a pretty straight forward trail to the waterfall- about 3 hours round trip at a leisurely to steady pace. the incline wasn't bad at all and a stop to enjoy the view.

lye brook falls is one of the tallest in the state of vt. it's a gorgeous waterfall and the water runs over all the shale-like rocks.

there was a small path up to a higher point on the falls, you can kind of see me in the middle of the picture.

after the hike we got some gelato at a really cute diner in downtown manchester (i'll remember the name eventually). and then headed to dorset which was about 10 minutes from manchester to look for the quarry that the locals use for swimming and cliff diving. 

the quarry was pretty big and there was a good number of cars parked outside. one section w/ the lower rocks had families w/ lawn chairs parked and smoozing, but once you walked around the quarry to the other side, were the teenagers and teenagers who looked about 12 smoking and drinking and diving off the cliff (all seemed like bad combinations). there's some shallower jumps at around 6' but also a 30' and 40' jump. after watching this girl stare down at the 30' jump for about ten minutes i figured i would start out at 30 and see how things went...

the water was freezinggggg. i was definitely stalling jumping off and couldn't look down other than to check if there was anyone below i would kill before i just had to jump off. it was tons of fun, not sure if i'll make it to the 40' jump but maybe next time when the weather gets really warm.


happy father's day and happy sunday!