Mt. Mansfield

This morning the kids and I headed over to Mt. Mansfield to hike. They have a lot of energy from being cooped up in the house because of all of the rain, so it was time to get out enjoy the sunshine and hike off some of that energy! The plan was to take the auto road up and then hike the ridgeline (3 miles roundtrip). Unfortunately the road was still closed, as they were repairing parts that got washed out from all of the rain and snow melt. So then onto plan B. We took the gondola up to the clifftop and then hiked back down. (2-2.5 miles). The boys did fine with the hike, and surprisingly emily did fairly well as well. She probably hiked a good half -3/4 of the way down, which for her little legs is quite a distance!
After our hike we stopped at ben & jerry's for some ice cream and to visit with papa tractor before coming home and taking a much needed nap!

Now off to work on daddy's birthday cards and to wrap their presents they collected on the trail.