And when I say fun, I mean socks!
Just before leaving on the trip, I found that I had 13 regular pairs of socks, not including the holiday ones. So it was hard to narrow down the great variety from hundreds, to five, and then ultimately, 3. But I walked away happy, and Brylee was carried away rich with socks as well, thanks to her awesome Oma.
While driving through Manchester searching for a baby clothing store to get Brylee some better-fitting jammies, we found a large area of land that held a lot of tractors, potentially a future museum. So of course, we had to check it out!
We had lunch at one of Gary and Brenda's favorite sandwich shops, the Little Rooster Cafe. They had tasty sandwiches, but I am a simple sandwich lover, so my sandwich (the Ethan Allen?) came with no apples. Just lettuce and meat. But very yummy!
Afterwards, we started to head toward our favorite Christmas store, but along the way we found a cool pumpkin patch with so many scarecrow decorations. They even had a corn maze, but we did not go through it due to time. But oh the fun it would have been!
After going crazy in the pumpkin patch, we made our way to the Christmas Store, which the last time I had seen it, it was covered in snow. But the inside had not changed much, and we walked around showing Brylee the beautifully decorated Christmas trees and looking through the ornaments to see if we could find the 'perfect ones' for gifts.
Dessert! We found a bakery right next to the Little Rooster and had to stop there for something. I had this tasty cupcake, while Cary had a Raspberry brownie of some sort. And Brenda had her favorite: blueberries! (in a pastry form, of course!).
At one point, we were going to attempt to drive into New York state to get Brylee to visit her 6th state in her short 10 months, but she got fussy, so we decided to stop in a nearby cemetery to stretch her legs and let her have some fun running around dead people. Yeah...morbid, huh? But fun!
That evening brought more basement game playing and then drive to our favorite ice cream stand for dinner. Yep--they served hamburgers!
And finally, one last shot of Brylee for the day, modeling her adorable new jammies that her Oma bought. She had managed to get both her feet into one leg in her other ones, but these were fleece, so less stretching and less escaping to get her little tooties too cold. She slept well that night! (Which also happened to be her last in the state of Vermont)
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