Honeymoon Hike and A Few More Bridges and a Very Nice Dinner

 We went on two good hikes on our honeymoon. The first one was on our first morning in Vermont. It turned out to be a pretty steep hike that we weren't adequately prepared for, and it was long, so we didn't go all the way to the top. But it was a great hike; I loved it! 

I couldn't get over how pretty the scenery was as we drove around Vermont that week. The pictures through the windows don't do it any kind of justice! 

We drove around to more covered bridges that day. It was a covered-bridge kind of honeymoon!

The beautiful view from the Scott Bridge...

This is the longest wooden span in Vermont!

I appreciated the latticework on the bridges and the diamond-shaped windows.

This bridge had a beach below it that we went down to.

The big red Taftsville bridge was especially bright and cheerful in the late afternoon sunlight.

This is Woodstock's pretty covered bridge.

I liked that it had a walking lane outside of it. Very practical, and perfect for taking in the views!

I mean, 😍😍😍

That evening, we went out for a very nice dinner with riverside views at the Simon Pearce restaurant ("proudly named best waterfront restaurant in the U.S.!"). The food was delicious (especially the cheeses—yum!), the waitress was very nice, and the views from our table were lovely.

I turned toward the camera because the picture was being taken on my not-as-photogenic side. But it still did me no favors. 😆

This salmon and its sauce and toppings were so delicious.

David enjoyed his chicken meal.

Simon Pearce glass candle holders

It was a great day from beginning to end!

Our Honeymoon: Weekend at the Cape and then NH and Vermont!

 Our wedding day was sunny and bright, and then the next few days following were pretty rainy and wet. It was good timing! We went to the Cape house for the weekend before going up to Vermont. I'm happy to report that we had a wonderful, special, and memorable honeymoon! I hope we'll re-create it in the future. I fell in love with Vermont!

Here I am opening some presents from David before we left for the Cape on Saturday morning. He had a gift for me to open every day of the honeymoon with a card he'd made for each one, which was so thoughtful and fun. 

The big gift that I opened that morning was a bath water heater that he made himself. It works well and keeps my bath nice and hot for as long as I'm in it. As a longtime bath lover, I especially appreciate it! 

David is good at building fires. It's nice to use the fireplace! It was dormant for many years.

On Saturday night, we had dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Yarmouth House, where we split my favorite meal there, Chicken Atlantis. David liked it, too. I wish one of us had taken a picture of it or of us, but alas, we did not, so this is a pictureless paragraph in which you will have to envision for yourself the deliciousness of Chicken Atlantis and the specialness of our first meal out as a married couple. 😄

One night we roasted hot dogs and s'mores over the fire. Yum!

On Tuesday morning, we drove up through Boston to New Hampshire and then to Vermont. We stopped at some pretty covered bridges in New Hampshire and one in Vermont before checking into our hotel in Woodstock that evening.

The bridges were almost always surrounded by beautiful scenery since they go over rivers.

Covered bridges are so neat! We went to a lot of them on our honeymoon (so get ready to see them all this week!).

This one was at New England College.

I don't like how I look in this picture but I like how David looks so I'll include it!

This was a unique covered bridge—it was used for train cars to go through.

I spotted this house and took a picture of it because I love wraparound porches like this!

The next bridge we stopped at had a swing underneath it, hanging right over the water. 

That could be fun on a hot summer day!

Most of the bridges we saw are still used today.

See?

The Cornish-Windsor Bridge is the longest wooden bridge in the U.S. and the longest two-span covered bridge in the world! I couldn't even get all of it in the picture.

Arriving in beautiful Vermont! 

After checking into our hotel, we had a delicious mushroom pizza for dinner at Pizza Chef in Woodstock.

Here are some of the pictures David took that day. His phone's camera is definitely better than mine!

Look at that crisp reflection!

Our honeymoon was off to a great start!