Dartmouth day

Today we woke up after a good night sleep after the exhausting task of climbing Mt Lafeyette yesterday. We had a small day planned traveling down to the lakes region of central New Hampshire to travel the state and enjoy rather than kill ourselves on the trail every day. First we stopped by a lake in which the water was the clearest I have ever seen and where professor Arion described the lake as a calendar picture saying it was one of the most beautiful and well recognized views in the state. He went on to tell us all about how an Indian chief had ran up a mountain on the lake after being chased down by people and legend has it that he jumped off the side rather than being captured by those who were after him. We got back in the van and headed down to Merideth which was another small New Hampshire town in which we walked through the shops and looked out at the largest lake in New Hampshire. Tony even managed to jump in for a five dollar bet and had to deal with the wet shorts during the entire ride back. After that we headed off to our last stop in Dartmouth where professor Arion went to school. What an amazing school and college town that it was. The halls were lined with tradition and pictures of famous graduates on every wall. Walking up and down the streets you just felt the tradition of the old campus and how you MUST wear green when you are there and how the Alumni, including professor Arion are so proud of the school they graduated from and still want to go back. We even got to go into his old fraternity house and she his picture from the class of 1979 with a full head of hair. He made it known that this was the place that beer pong was invented when we walked into the basement and saw two beer pong tables right in front of us. Today was a very nice day and I enjoyed seeing Dartmouth the most and seeing the tradition of the whole campus town and how nice and old all the libraries looked. Tomorrow we are off to Littleton and to go to Weeks state park that helped keep the loggers from this land and rebuild the forests of New Hampshire.