Ben &Jerry's Ice Cream Factory

Sandy, Darlene, and I left Essex Junction, VT and headed over to the Ben and Jerry's factory. The tour was only $2.00 and took about half an hour. At the end of the tour, everyone got a sample of ice cream. Today's flavor was Boston Cream Pie. It was a good size helping, too, not just one of those little spoons for tasting; but do you think that was enough??? NOOOOO, of course not. You can never have enough ice cream, so I stood in line and got a small serving of Oatmeal Cookie Chunk.

Being the brainless wonder that I am, I could not remember what flavor ice cream I had, so I went to Ben and Jerry's Website. Do you know what I found???? A Ben and Jerry's app for the iPhone. It will keep you up-to-date on their newest flavors and has a feature to find the nearest B&J store. Oh, man; am I in trouble now. It even has a feature called, "Learn the ingredients and nutrition info of each flavor." Do you think I care? Do you think that's going to keep me from eating ice cream three times a week? I think not.

Here are a few pictures I took at Ben & Jerry's:

After visiting Ben & Jerry's, we went to the Trapp Family Lodge -- you know, the Von Trapp family -- the Sound of Music family. From what we could see, there wasn't much to see. It was an Inn, so if you were a guest, there was probably lots of stuff to do. For us, we just walked through the main lobby of the lodge and I went to the bakery down the road.

This is the view from the base of the Lodge and a picture of the front of the Lodge:

The library:

That night, we stayed in a campground in Marshfield, VT. It was a very small campground but the amenities were the best I've ever experienced. The campground was bordered by a large river that had a small beach so you could go swimming. In addition, they had two pools and a hot tub. I soooo miss my hot tub. After I took a dip in the river, I later sat in the hot tub. It was over 90 degrees outside; you'd think that it was too hot to be lounging around in a hot tub, but it felt sooooooo goooood!!!

I took Hope in the river with me. I was very, very proud of her. She took some coaxing before getting in over her knees and she did well until she lost footing and had to actually swim. The poor thing completely panicked and ran back in to shore. We tried three times and each time she got a touch better. I figured three was enough, though, so I let her be after that and gave her the ol' towel treatment. She doesn't like water and she doesn't like being brushed, but she sure does like being rubbed all over with a towel. Silly dog!