Friday in Lake Geneva

We had high hopes for the weather – the forecast was for sun and temps in the 70’s and it looked pretty nice early.  We had breakfast in the hotel overlooking the pool.  The workers were putting up umbrellas and cutting lemons for the ice water and the sun was shining.

After breakfast we took the trolley for a tour of the 1300 acre property.  It was pretty interesting – we saw the ski slopes with snow making machines, the stables, Timber Ridge and of course golf courses.  It was getting cloudy as we finished the tour but it didn’t look too bad.  We decided to take the hiking trail which runs through the woods.  Sure enough while we’re out in the woods it starts to rain.  We ran back to the car.  By now it was raining pretty hard so we drove over to Burlington to a food store that a fellow diner had recommended to us.  It was a great place. We picked up some wine, cheese, honey, tomatoes, bananas and peanut butter.  Would have loved to picked up meat and other things but we had no way to keep it cold.  By the time we finished that the rain had gone away so we headed back to Lake Geneva.  We had heard that there is a public path that runs around the lake, even crossing private estates so we decided to investigate that.  We just walked a little ways because it was already after 1:00 but we saw some spectacular homes.

The yard on this one was enormous
 
This is the pier

This one was my favorite

This one is called Stone Manor, it was originally an 18,000 sq ft house but was recently converted into 6 condominiums.

After the walk we had lunch at Popeye’s and headed for home.  The sun had finally come out fully.  This was our view from Popeye’s