Vermont

Today we spent the day in Bennington, Vermont. Madison was amazed... "you were in Mass. and now you drove ALL THE WAY to Vermont?" I told her it is like traveling to MI from our home in IN... very close! Here are the short highlights...again people are waiting for Internet usage. : )

We stopped at an Apple Barn gift shop that sold... you guessed it... apples. ...It was like a Kercher's Orchard with more gifty stuff too. We drove through 3 covered bridges....after having to find them. The back roads are so gorgeous. These New England homes are so unique and CUTE! They aren't afraid to use colors! The people have been so friendly here too. We went to the Bennington Monument which is a monument to commemorate this area's role in the revolutionary war and took pictures from the top. This was very close by to the Old First Church in Bennington, VA. It is a huge, gorgeous, OLD church... that was one of the very first churches in VT. It is the picture-book style with super high steeple and spires. We walked through their cemetery because it is "famous" for people being buried there in the early 1800's. Robert Frost is buried there. I told Mom and Aunt Fern that my kids will think we've "lost it" when they see pictures of a cemetery! Ha! We are doing all kinds of things that would totally bore my kids.... so that's good right? We also went to Camelot Antiques... which sells, that's right, antiques. They also have a huge consignment craft area with about 200 booths.

Tonight we had supper in the condo and are going to relax for the rest of the evening. We haven't made any plans for tomorrow yet. We are having a great time but I'm really missing my family A LOT! I called Quinn around 4:30 today and thought that would be a "safe time" to talk to him but he sounded all sad and missing me. That made me feel bad. : ( I miss them so much!

Well, my time is up.
Much love to all, Leah