OMG! the vacation from heckpie is over! First, we got an amazing deal, and I thought WOW! this is a half price deal AND we get Ben and Jerry tickets, AND we get Cabot cheese tour tickets, AND we get to blah blah blah. Well, "handicap accessable" room I was given was UP two flights of stairs! The mattress was so hard it was like sleeping on the floor. The sheets wouldnt stay on the bed because they were so old and worn out, the HUGE monster AC unit that hung from the wall sounded like a jet engine when it went off and on every 20 minutes. We opened our windows only to find 6 employees had their bums parked in the rocking chairs out front SMOKING! the smoke drifted up and into our window. UGH! we closed that window and opened the other to find NO screen. Every bug for 3 miles found our window. The folks across the way sat out on chairs gossiping till 1am, SMOKING! UGH! so, we closed the window and dealt with ol bessie the cow of a AC unit. Unable to get any rest with a jet engine going off every 20 minutes we woke at the crack of dawn and said "lets go out of here!"

We wandered the over priced town for hours and still nothing was open. No stores open till 10 except a few coffee/breakfast style places. We kept walking, and window shopped. Pretty flowers, gorgeous scenery and before you knew it we had gone to smugglers notch. wonderful scenic place. We had breakfast that was overpriced at the resort there, and made our way home. The B&B employees still out front puffing away, so you had to run the smokers guantlet to get inside. We tried to nap while it was semi quiet, but then the housekeepers started in on the rooms around us. UGH! We decided to go find this cheese factory that no one knows where it is. Well, no one truly knew! We asked 3 employees! its included with the price of the room! no one knows?? they said Morsetown. so off we went. no one in morsetown knew. Oh you mean Morristown? Dear god! it was still an hour away! so, we went back to B&B. all this for $2 tickets to see cheese!

Went back to our room, and watched time not tick by. The antique TV has 4 stations on them, and all have CNN, CNBC, or the democratic watch...UGH! I hate politics! so, we rented cheap movies off of netflix after I rigged my antenae to pick up their wireless signal from the front desk (shh dont tell. you are supposed to go to the sitting area if you want to use the internet.) and then we ordered a pizza. The pizza guys call to say "im at your door" we open the door. no pizza dude! um..dude, where are you? "at the stowe resort." NO! we are at the STOWE INN!" so, 30 minutes later, we have our cold pizza. He forgot our salads, and didnt bring silver ware. Good thing I packed some.

We had a carpet pizza and watched bad movies. there was NO table to use, and only one over stuffed, broken chair to sit in. my back is screaming mad at this point. I took pills. We talked, we laughed, we remininced and we tried to make the best of it. I took pills at 7 and we went to bed. We left the window open and would rather face the talking people and the smoke instead of ol bessie the AC unit.

6am we are ready to go. We get up, we walked to breakfast up the road. Had bad corn beef hash and eggs, and walked to hotel where we packed, and dropped the key in the early check out box, and headed for the Cheese Annex near Ben and Jerry. it was nice enough. over priced stuff, but it had cheese and some videos of cheese making. We got gifts for the cat sitters and moved on, but not before I got the dire rear. oh joy! so, we got to the ice cream place just ahead of a tour bus RAMMED with kids! We just made the tour ahead of them, but we did get the pushy NYC couple and their teenage girl who thought this lame, and the over stressed mom with 5 kids under the age of 5, who kept saying "i am going to take you home if you dont behave! is that what you want, to go home?" she wasnt going to take them home, and they knew it! Not to mention stroller dad who kept trying to clip my ankles with his stroller. DH finally got between us and said "my wife has MS and if you knock her over, its ME you need to apologize to, got it?" He disappeared. Tour was over, had a tiny cup of americone ice cream and a video about Steve...whatever comedian its named after and some political views.

Got back in the car after skipping the over priced gift shop, and ran for home. very pretty ride, but construction everywhere! Got home and all my babies were thrilled to see me. I cuddled them all up, and we went to bed. Woke this morning after 12 hours of sleep and was asked to give a review of the B&B...you dont even want to know what I said.

Im home! Im happy, and I will be home till the next adventure. Good gravy. that was fun.