Hello to all. Well, here we are at the end of the teaching/touring portion of the trip. We had a beautiful holiday weekend here with arts/crafts/antique/apple fesivals all over the place. We visited a cute little town called Quechee where there just happens to be a Cabot Cheese outlet store. Spent quite a bit of time in there sampling cheeses and dips and after that of course we came out with cheeses and crackers. Yummy! Drove through the town of Woodstock and would have loved to walk around but there were so many people, we couldn't find a parking space. So it is definitely on my list of places to visit again.

On Sunday, the campground where we have been staying had a BBQ lunch for the campers. What a nice way to meet with other folks. THe people we sat with were also from Florida, so we compared work/family/camping adventures.

Yesterday we went to the movies in the town of Bellows Falls...another town to come back to and explore. The movie screen is in an old opera house with balconies and everything. It cost $4 a ticket and since it was Monday, they sold the small popcorn for .25! The large popcorn sells for $3.25! You could actually take your family to the movies and not go bankrupt. They aren't first run movies, but you can't beat the atmosphere!

We went to a local orchard yesterday and were able to ride out in the fields in a wagon and pick apples from the trees. The views were awesome. They had a huge supply of pumpkins and gourds...the most unusual pumpkin shape we say was fat and squished down...they call them "Cinderella" pumpkins. They also had a petting zoo on the property with all sorts of goats, sheep, chickens, peacocks, rabbits, and pigs.

What a wonderful adventure this has been. I really look forward to coming back this way sometime in the future to explore the things we missed out this time around. But with the temperature expected to be 28 degrees tonight with a possibility of snow flurries, it is definintely time to get out of Dodge. We pull out for Missouri tomorrow and should be there in time for another arts/crafts festival on the weekend. Then off to Branson for the family reunion. Will be in touch with all after I get to my sister's house.

Bye for now.

Terry and Mark