Today had its ups and downs here in VT. We were off to Burlington to visit the Lake Champlain Chocolate company and Shelburne farms. After some fighting over who sits where in the car, we were off at about 10 am with a 50 minute drive to make an 11 am tour at the chocolate factory. Thank God we made it because it was a real success. We got to see how chocolate is made and saw some of the wonderful things they are making there. Everyone got a few things to sample, and there are a lot of bowls of chocolat all over the store for people to sample. I highly recommend going here if you are ever in the Burlington area.
We then made our way to the farm over major protests from Avi. He said things like I do want to go, or farms are stupid, etc. It was a real fight. I got him to move when we got there especially since you go on a wagon ride to the farm area from the parking lot. He really liked that and he did like seeing some of the animals (although he wont admit it). However, he made it very hard for me to see the other two kids having a good time at the farm.
On the way home we stopped off at an annex store for the chocolate company near Stowe and bought some factory seconds to bring home. We also went into the Cabot Cheese annex and got to tasted a lot fo great cheese!
After a nice grilled chicken dinner we got the kids to bed and we can get rested for tomorrow. Tomorrow Marsha turns 39 and I am praying that Avi makes it an easy day. We are looking for a easy to moderate trail to hike and I think we have found a few possibilies. Hopefully in the later afternoon we will go to this ncie mini-golf place in town to let the kids have fun (and us!) We will cap off tomorrow with a nice birthday dinner out for Marsha.
Tune in tomorrow to see how it turns out. Same bat time, same bat channel!
Shayna and me milking a cow
Noam enjoying petting a bunny
Oh, the chocolate! It sounds like a wonderful day and we’re glad you came by to see us at the Cabot Annex. I hope the birthday celebration was terrific, too 🙂
Wendy @ Cabot