Vermont - Day Three

Today we hit the road with Violet and Jack and headed out to Lake Champlain and the Lake Champlain Islands. The Islands are a peninsula that run through the lake from Burlington, Vermont to Montreal, Quebec. There are five small towns that reside on the Islands where there are homes as well as shops and restaurants for visitors to enjoy.

Also along the way is an eight-mile detour to a small bridge that took us into Rouse Point, New York. Rouse Point is another small
town like St. Albans and those on the Islands. We had a nice little jaunt through town before moving on.



After our tour of the Islands we moved on to Burlington where we visited Church Street. This historical street is lined with shops and restaurants all nestled into wonderfully preserved buildings. We enjoyed a lovely lunch and saw a few sights before heading back to St. Albans for the day.















That evening we were treated to yet another superb family meal courtesy of Jack and Pam, complete with delicious food and more family stories and laughs.


This visit has been so therapeutic. It's been so overwhelmingly amazing to get in touch with these luminous people. We've heard so many times on this trip that we are pretty neat for making the trek across country just to meet them, but they have really given us so much more than the effort we put out to get here. They have given my sister and me something we've never really had....family. And my God, is it ever fun!