T Stands for the Mountains

It's Monday night and my long weekend is almost over. It's been a great 4 days off. I hope my 4 day work week goes by as smoothly.

And it is time again for T Day. It's time to share your drink posts over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's Blog.

This week for T I thought I would share some views from a recent road trip journey. My husband and I both had last Friday off for the long Labor Day holiday weekend. Our original plan was to drive to the top of Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in our state and in the northeast US. At 6,289 feet (1817 meters), the mountain isn't tall by most world standards, but it is known for having some of the worst weather in the world.

This was the photo they posted on Facebook showing the Friday morning weather. They also said They were having wind gusts at 75 miles per hour.

Mount Washington held the record for the fastest wind gust (231 mph) until 1996 when Typhoon Olivia hit 253 mph. Even so, the weather up top can be totally different from the base. When I looked it up online Friday morning I saw that it was 14 degrees F with wind chills making it feel like 7 degrees F  (that's -10 degrees C feeling like -13 degrees C) on the mountain top.
A little too wintery for me.

But even though it was a cold day and not the day to drive up to the top  of a mountain, we decided to take a drive up into the mountains but stay at lower elevations.

 A few other people had the same idea.

It was still a chilly fall feeling day.

But since the sun was shining and we didn't have to go to work it didn't matter. We saw a few of these covered bridges.

 And we even drove over one.

 The river wasn't really very high.

 But this one boy still decided to swim down the rapids. Brrr. I know it is technically still summer but I don't think you'd find me in swimming at that temperature. 

 It was pretty and we even noticed that a few trees had tinges of color. Already.

And after some sight seeing and a bit of light hiking, it was time for some food.

We decided to try the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, NH. We had never been there before, but we had seen their beer in our local store. 

I tried the Pig's Ear brown beer. It was very good and I would buy it again.

But I needed some food too.

Both the hubby and I had the open face meatloaf sandwich. Yum. It was a thick slice of homemade bread, some delicious meatloaf and a big scoop of mashed potatoes. Enough for lunch not only Friday but also on Sunday.  I would order this again for sure.

Even the popcorn as an appetizer was pretty good.
So if you ever happen to be in Woodstock, New Hampshire I recommend this place.
Hope everyone has a great T day.