Frozen Falls

Just got home from working a shift at the Hockey club house concession's stand (aka canteen for the Canadian readers). Pretty slow night, and thankfully got to leave a few minutes early. Met a few other parents tonight and shared stories of parenthood exhaustion. Its so nice to have people to vent with...The load feels a bit lighter now so why not make another entry on my blog? That's 2 in one weeks time!!

I shouldn't be complaining too much right now, because we are coming off a weekend of Grandma time. My mom came for a visit this weekend and then stayed home with the boys today, since schools out for MLK day.
On Saturday we took the boys for a drive up the North Shore to check out the frozen version of Gooseberry Falls. We've been there a handful of times in the snow free months, but this was our first visit to see the frozen falls. Although ice cascades down all levels of the falls, in some parts you can see and hear the water falling behind the ice...pretty cool! Not all the trails are cleared though, blue so we pulled Brady boy around in his little sled, while the big boys and I wandered off the path to explore the frozeness of Gooseberry Falls State Park. Lots of sunshine, and the temp was 40 degrees... how sweet is that for January 16th.

I tried posing the kids for a nice photo standing on the upper falls, but they were too busy watching grandmas dog dancing around some passerbys to look at the camera.




Riley standing on the island in the middle falls.



Dylan checking out an icy cliff on the middle falls.

Big boys posing in the middle falls.




OF COURSE it wouldn't be a trip up the North shore without a great piece of pie. However, we didn't make the usual visit to the Rustic Inn, instead jumped the tourist bandwagon and stopped into Betty's Pies (as seen on the the Travel Channel's Andrew Zimmern show) for lunch. I had a delicious roasted garlic tomato soup with egg salad sandwich that ended with a slice of French Cream Cherry pie. Good food, tasty pie, and now I can say I've crossed it off my list of places to try along the scenic drive, but Rustic Inn still remains the fave... by far.