The Blaney Family Website: September 2012

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Vermont

     Greetings from Vermont. We started the day with a tour of the Cabot cheese factory. Go figure, we live in Wisconsin and have to travel to Vermont for a cheese factory tour!
     After learning all we could from the experience, we traveled 30 miles down the road to the home of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. After a brief video, a tour of the plant it was on to the free sample! Today's free flavor was Steven Colbert's Americone Dream.
     Next stop was the Cider Mill where I had a chance to drink a jug maple syrup. It was very cute and very New England.
     Montpelier was just around the corner so we drove through town and saw the capital.
     Our last stop was the Von Trapp's resort in Stowe, VT, (think The Sound Of Music). The huge resort is still owned by the "Trapp" family. From 4:30-5:30 they have a sing-a-long at the resort, lead by a harpist. All in all it was a full and enjoyable day.

Monday, September 17, 2012

We're Off!

I have a conference in Boston so Cathy and I left a few days early, picked up Kathleen in Boston and headed to Bar Harbor, Maine. The Maine state motto seems to be “lobster, lobster everywhere, why don’t you eat some?” So we did. We ate lobster, lobster roll and even lobster mac-n-cheese. We took a 2 hour scenic boat tour and saw thousand of Maine’s famed lobster traps, spent some time going through Acadia National Park and saw stunning views from Cadillac Mountain.