Lake Placid - Olympic Gold

This morning the rain had stopped but it was still overcast.  For breakfast we headed to the Downtown Diner which was around the corner from the motor inn.  We have eaten here many times and it was great.  From there we drove up town to visit the world famous Olympic Ice Arena and Museum.  What a great facility to follow the history of the USA winter Olympic teams back to 1924.  Unquestionably, the most famous event ever held there was the hockey game between the USA and Russia in the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980.  Needless to say Mike and I enjoyed the museum....while Nan and Grace ditched us for the the many gift shops on Main St.

Fortunately they were still in the first gift shop, surprise!  From there we walked the many shops on Lake Placid's main street while enjoying the atmosphere and scenery.  I was drawn into an IZOD store by a big sale, and Mike and I both managed to buy something.

We stopped for a snack and then headed to the Olympic Jumping Complex.  This is where the monster ski jumps are located as well as the freestyle jump.  We missed the freestyle training by a few minutes.  It would have been fun to see these kids do their jumps and then land in the aerated swimming pool.  The blast of air bubbles softens the water for landing, so we were told.  The dominant things here though, are the 90 M and 120 M ski jump towers.  Wow are these things huge.  It's hard to believe that the jumpers are 200 feet up to reach the starting point for their jump.  Sorry, this aint for me!

Back on the road, we headed down the mountains and were on some very curvy roads.  Nan and Grace were a little concerned, but for Mike and I there must have been some security holding on to the steering wheel as the road didn't seem bad at all.  Once down on more flat terrain the roads were nice to travel and we were soon in Ticonderoga for our ferry ride across Lake Champlain.  Now this isn't a big ferry, it only holds 15 cars, but it's a fun ride.  The Model A's looked special on the deck of the little ferry.

Once on the other side of the lake we followed RT 22A, which was very rural and we pretty much had the road to ourselves.  Our destination would be Bennington, VT and we arrived without any problems.  At dinner we commented on how this would be our last dinner on our trip and tomorrow we would be home.  Grace pointed out however, since there was no food in the house, we would problably have to go out for dinner at home anyway.  You know, she is probably right.

Today the GPS said we did 147 miles.  It should be about the same to reach home tomorrow.