Historic Home Tour

The house tour was fantastic. Beautiful historic houses with the most unique features and incredible artwork. I'm glad I squeezed this weekend into the calendar.

We were able to walk and walk we did -- hello, hills. Seven houses and the last was such a big climb we were a puddle of sweat by the time we got there. Took us over 4 hours to tour all the homes. 

My feet were tired. I've spent the summer in Hokas or Birkenstocks and my feet weren't happy about fashion trainers. No pictures allowed, but a bear walked up to one of the porches so we had to wait to leave the house (mama with 2 cubs).

Cubs ran under the bushes
by the time I got my phone.
They were LITTLE babies
so we gave the mama lots
of room before we left. 

Seven more houses today and I'm going solo. They gave a booklet with a summary of the houses. Three are significantly far (trolley or drive) and all new builds. I'm going to skip them (most likely) and just tour the walkable historic houses. If I hear they're interesting, I might take the trolley up if I'm in the mood. You know I'd rather leave time for the teahouse. 

Already saw a big bear at the house this morning. I opened the window and he was right there. I'll have to be on the lookout when I'm walking around today. They're more active with the cooler weather.

I need to figure out my workout schedule for the next stretch of days -- might take a run this morning instead of a mountain walk ... or might skip a workout altogether since I'm doing a lot of walking during the day. It was a lot of time on my feet yesterday and I'm sore in areas other than muscles. I have a hard hike on Wednesday and the possibility of another hard-ish hike on Tuesday and I need rested legs. Decisions, decisions. It all hinges on what I decide for Tuesday. 

UPDATE: I went for a run. Couldn't pass up cool mountain air -- I'll figure out the rest of the week tomorrow. 

It's really nice that I have all morning for ME. Tour begins at 1 o'clock and I can start it anytime. The mountain temps are so nice right now (getting warm in the afternoon though). I WILL have time for the teahouse (yes!!!) and somewhere (anywhere) for lunch. I'll need dinner plans too. 

On that note, I'm going to go plan my day. Hope you have a good Sunday. Later gators.