This weekend we fell in love with Vermont! It is so beautiful! We drove up to Sharon and camped at "Camp Joseph" (the church's campsite right next to
Joseph Smith's birth place.). If you haven't been to Sharon before, we would recommend staying the night at the camp. You can stay in cabins or bring a tent, but DON"T FORGET THE BUG SPRAY!! And don't forget your baby pack. It's the cool thing to do.
The camp site is only a 5 min, or so, walk from the birthplace memorial. Since we were one of the only groups at the memorial we got A LOT of personal attention. We got a tour of the Smith/Mac property in a golf cart. Luckily we didn't die because "It looks like the breaks are out" and we could have fallen into the "clear water." We also got the full length version of the indoor tour, even though we didn't hear a word of it for fear our kids were going to nock down the Jospeh Smith statues or get burnt in the fake fire place. :)
The grounds are so beautiful, both at the monument and the campsite. Mckinlay and Marcus had a lot of fun playing in the dirt. I tried so hard to get a picture of the two of them with their dirty faces, but no luck.
I couldn't get both of them to look at the camera. But I did get this sweet shot:
Looks like we really do have a
budding romance on our hands.
We all had fun eating tin foil dinners, roasted corn (thanks for the butter Laura!) and bread sticks, roasted apples, smores...and the men made a fabulous breakfast! Kind of funny that we all the best homemade breakfast we have had in a long time, and we had it while camping. I played my first game of horseshoes and realized I'm not too bad at it! I got 2 ringers! I think Ty was so proud to have found a sport that I don't really stink at.
This is one of my favorite pictures from the weekend.
On our "way home" (actually it was an hour in the wrong direction, but well worth it) we stopped at the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory. They give tours of the plant and free ice cream samples.
We of course stopped at the "scoop shop" and then visited the "flavor graveyard." It's the final resting place of all the retired flavors. Some only last 3 weeks on the market. Our votes for top three worst were:
1) Sugar Plum - Plum ice cream with a caramel swirl
2) Peanut Butter and Jelly - Peanut butter ice cream with peanut butter bits and jelly swirls
3) Sweet Potato Pie - Ginger ice cream with a fudge swirl
(I know I can't believe I posted this picture either. Talk about gross!)
Contrary to popular belief, our trip to Sharon wasn't an excuse to go to Ben & Jerry's. It just worked out nicely to see them both in one trip. :)
Mckinlay, was a champ traveler and was perfectly content to plug her ears on the car trip home. Apparently she didn't like the book we were listening to.
Thanks Spragues and Christophers for making the trip so fun! Next time we need to be sure to get a picture of all of us!
Lightening struck the tree! Luckily there were no cars parked in any of these spots. Fillmores, you are SO lucky you already moved! Can you imagine the damage that would have done to your car? Yikes.
