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We drove out late Thursday night, my roomie and I for the weekend. She was taking me to her hometown in Vermont.
It was a three and half hour drive and she lived on a beef farm.
Everything was like the movies. The red barns, finished with two levels and filled with hay. The green hills. The rickety white house with an attic and cellar. Her hometown was so small it had two restaurants and the nearest, large grocery store was a forty minute drive away.
On the Friday morning it was a practice run for the roomie while I trailed behind at my own pace - my own pace being a walk. We then went into Rutland (the forty minute drive away to a grocery store location), got lunch and went to her cousins to eat. From there we went to a friend's property then out for dinner at an Applebees.
After dinner, it was off to a bonfire party where they started a game of Slap Cup on a barrel roller (I don't know the correct name for what they actually used because I'm not a country kid, unfortunately). The best part about this was that the ball got hit, went through a hole in the middle of the table and somehow ended up in the middle of the table, a hollow area, and they couldn't reach it no matter what. So the guy, whose party it was, named Justin, half cut started up his chainsaw.
"Everybody get out of the way," he said, "I need that ping pong ball."
We all couldn't stop laughing. Some had their phones out filming the phenomenon. He got down and chain sawed a panel of wood out of this table to reach the ball. Only in the country would you witness this happen. Never in a city.
Saturday started with making fruit pizza. I'll make sure to add a photo of this to the album. It tasted amazing. Cookie dough based, iced with cream cheese icing and then decorated with strawberries, grapes and raspberries. Absolutely delicious. Then the afternoon was spent at the Addison Country Tractor and Truck Pulls.
That night we had a family dinner of spaghetti with my roommates parents and couple of friends before heading out to Hathaway's Farm for a Corn Maze. The theme that the maze was shaped into was Under the Sea, and it took an hour and a half for us to find our way out. It was a lot of fun though, running through a corn farm.
Early Sunday morning we woke up to get ready and go watch my roommate run the sprint in the Spartan race. It was held at the top of Killington (Vermont's Ski Resort), the day was overcast and equivalent to ten degrees Celsius, and stupid me wore shorts to the event. I was bloody freezing.
It was an eventful morning. We got free gondola rides to the peak of the resort, we rode up, back down and up again. Then back down again after a hot coffee at the top.
We followed the sprint along encouraging our friends on until the finish line.
Before driving off back to Potsdam, we went apple picking at Douglas's Orchards. I love apples so much, and it was great because you got to pick some to take home while eating them as you go.
The drive home was eventful, fast food dinner and jamming the whole way out.
The views were incredible, green with the red barns, the sun setting over the trees and hundreds of wind turbines across the fields. Heading back university, I really didn't want to leave Vermont. It was such an incredible experience.
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