Back to Round 2 of visitors and the rest of our week of Vermont fun :)
The day after Montreal, we decided to leave the lake to explore some more of Vermont. It was rainy and a little chilly (60s in July as Liz and Maegan enjoyed pointing out) so we started at the Ben and Jerry's Factory in Waterbury.
It was crowded so we were all a little skeptical of being herded around on the Factory tour but it was totally worth it to see everything! They don't allow photos of the workrooms (maybe they're afraid someone will steal their ice cream packaging design or maybe the workers just need their privacy?), but we did get pictures everywhere else.
In the big cookie :)
The wall of currently available flavors - they only make 2 flavors a day...the day we were there they were making a new one - milk and cookies - delicious!
The flavor graveyard - where all the retired flavors are put to rest.
The tasting room! I have to note that we all started eating at the same time and of course I was the only one sucking the rest of my ice cream out of the cup at the time of this picture :)
Maegan pushed aside a small child for this photo opportunity.
After Ben and Jerry's we headed down to the Waterbury Farmers' Market where the local Rotary had a band playing. It was a popular event and Maegan and Liz kept pointing out potential friends for us! Ha!
That night Maegan just HAD TO eat at American Flatbread :) We had no problem with that because it's always delicious and so fun to go!
Afterwards we headed to Bluegrass Thursdays at Nectars...
Sadly, Maegan had to leave the next morning :( Liz and Aaron hung out for one more day and we had time to eat lunch down by the harbor and go out in the boat for the afternoon!
Whew - I'm up to 4th of July weekend! It was HOT HOT and would only get even hotter from Saturday on through this week! I can't even explain what 96 feels like with no AC. Wow! It was enough to make us go buy a portable AC unit and lock Willow in the bedroom with it during the day. It's supposed to cool back down this weekend and next week though :)
FRIENDS - thanks for visiting! We had so much fun and can't wait to see you again - miss you already!
xoxo
what a fun week!!!!! everyone move to vermont!!! after the week was over i said i wanted to get my nose pierced and pack my bags bc i was moving to vt... with or without ben...just kidding
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