Thanksgiving in Stowe

Gary

Danielle and Brooke

Even Louie got to go!

Ricky and Quinn in his Thanksgiving suit

Thanksgiving walk

Brooke and Christina

Pool sharks

Polish Poker game

Ben and Jerry's YUM!

Hello Quinn!

A game of Sorry

Quinn and Brooke

We had a great time in Stowe. The inn was dog friendly so we were able to bring Louie with us. He was very happy. We got there around 3 on Wednesday and settled in. Then we went to get pizza for supper, and to see the movie Twilight. I liked the movie, but the book is 5 times better. When we got back to the inn we went in the hot tub and swimming pool.

On Thanksgiving we drove to the bike path in town and took a long walk. It was not too cold and there was no wind so it was nice. At 3 we went to the Thanksgiving buffet, it was very good, although I did not have turkey, I had the prime rib. :)

On Friday we went downtown to some shops, I picked up some Christmas presents , the prices are not cheap on anything there. We went back to the same pizza place for lunch. Get this, we got 3 large pizza's and 8 soda's and the bill came to $75. Hello? pizza? Even though we swore we were full after all that pizza, we went to the Ben and Jerry's factory for ice cream. We didn't take the tour because they weren't making ice cream that day. That night at 11:15 a bunch of us got in our cars and drove to Emily's Bridge, a supposed haunted covered bridge that has been written about in various books. There was probably 12 of us so it was not that scary to be there even though it was on a back road and black as pitch. I am going to do a separate post on the bridge so that is all I am going to say at this point, except I slept with the bathroom light on for the last 2 nights of our stay.

On Saturday we went out again, drove up and looked at the Von Trapp family lodge. For those who don't know who that family is, they are the family portrayed in The Sound of Music. We went to the Cider Mill after and got some fresh apple cider donuts, and some fresh ice cold apple cider. They have a gift shop there and we poked around for a while. We stopped at the Cabot cheese store and that was our lunch, cubes of cheese and popcorn with shaker cheese on it. :) For dinner that night we went to a restaurant called Gracie's , it was all decorated with a dog motif. I had a salad and shepherd's pie. This pie could have fed my whole family! When I was done eating it didn't look like I had hardly eaten any. We had to change rooms that night because we lost our heat and the room felt like we had the AC on. It was kind of a pain to move but we did it pretty quickly.

We went to the bridge late again that night, but with less people so it was scarier. After breakfast Sunday morning we packed up and left the inn. We stopped at one more store and I loved this one, it had good prices and I got to pick out some of my stocking stuffers.

So we had a wonderful time and brought back lots of good memories.

Cozy

Von Trapp family lodge