My Place and Times: Vermont Finale

So it's been a little crazy getting back to reality from being gone for the week. But I wanted to complete the rest of my Trip.

Thursday the gang showed up around 1:30 pm (Keith, Justin, Austin, Mia and Rachel). They had a bit of a rough night the night before - Keith, Mia and Austin arrived around 11:30 pm into Hartford and Justin and Rachel arrived around midnight. Keith got the car and while waiting had texted me to find somewhere for them to eat. They had no time in Baltimore to get anything. Mia and Austin were starving and midnight is about normal for Keith to eat. Justin and Rachel had eaten in Atlanta so Keith was going to drop them at hotel and we found a Denny's not too far from the hotel. So we thought. Keith dropped Rachel and Justin off and headed with Mia and Austin to Denny's to find it was "under construction" however, Denny's neglected to post that on their Locations portion of their website. So it was a McDonald's night and about 4 hours of sleep for them. They were actually in a much better frame of mind than I expected when they arrived.

They stopped for breakfast on the way and I think they were all a bit over tired..........

Austin and Mia

Rachel and Justin

(Keith no clue picture was taken while he paid the check)

(Keith realizing they're taking pics)

They were all happy to meet the new baby goat Chaia. I showed some pictures and video in my earlier post. She was really cute. Here's a few more pics of everyone having their moments with her........

The dogs were a tad bit jealous

Rachel trying to feed Chaia her bottle while the dogs inspected the situation.

"Finally getting her bottle"

Mia having a turn feeding.

Great Picture Rachel got of Chaia.

Justin having his moment outside with her.

Austin enjoyed his time too

One of the guests took some candid shots of Mia playing with the goats outside...........

We decided Mia's new name was the Goat Whisperer.

We had lunch at Ponce's on Friday- aka the place we had lunch 3 years ago with the long table - per Austin. He had the exact same sandwich he had then. A ham and tampenade sandwich - We all had an amazing lunch except my husband Keith who for some reason decided to order the two things he hates most in one dish. Meatloaf Tacos..........now anyone that knows him - knows that would be the last thing on earth he'd order so I'm not quite sure what he was thinking or I should say NOT thinking but luckily Justin ordered an antipasto in addition to the tacos and Keith at that..

When we got back Keith gave the dogs a stick to play with and the did play tug of war.......

On Saturday I went Tag Sale hopping and found quite a few treasures. I found my Aunt a sewing machine in amazing condition- Brother Brand - for $10.00 she was ecstatic I also found an old wood butter churn bucket for $10. A few other things I ended up shipping home.

The other 5 went hiking..........

Because the goats are dairy goats we were able to enjoy fresh milk every day- homemade yogurt; soap from goats milk in the shower; homemade goat milk ricotta and homemade breads and cakes from the goat's milk.

Rachel enjoying her goat milk yogurt with berries.

Me enjoying mine with homemade granola and honey from their beehive.

Little too much honey. I didn't realize it would be sweeter than the store bought honey..

We enjoyed meeting Sarah who is new to us and the farm.....

She is awesome. I really enjoyed our time together getting to know each other.

Justin and Keith put a heat lamp in the Pig "Juliette's" house - she was getting ready to have piglets. It was in the 30's at night. Friday night we went to town for dinner and when we returned the pig hut was glowing from the lamp. We all started to laugh - the pig wasn't in the house. Poor thing probably thought she'd be bacon.

(sorry didn't get a picture of hut)

On Sunday before we left we went to Bromley Mountain for everyone to ride the flumes and play miniature golf. I was able to catch a short video of Keith, Justin and Rachel at the end of the flume.

Mia got her face painted whie we waited.

We got to the airport on time and upon the return home Justin and Rachel went home with Rachel's mom waiting for them at the airport. Mia, Austin, Keith and I headed out for dinner. But before we left Keith went to get the car while we got the luggage. When he arrived he said something died in my car and it smelled like a garbage can. Well he wasn't kidding. OMG..............it was awful. Mia even opened the hood to see if something crawled under the hood and died. NOPE. We looked under all the seats.. NOTHING. We drove to Cary to the Hibernia and when we got there I was determined to figure it out. Well.......................something clicked to look inbetween the console area. Sadly - there was the culprit. We had gone to breakfast with Mia and Austin the Sunday before and I had a piece of Ham and Cheese omelette left over. Keith stuck the container in the little shelf under the navigation screen. Well with it being so hot and the car being shut down it fermented to say the least. My poor car. With some airing out and lots of Febreeze the eu de la ham omelette scent is about gone. It was beyond GROSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Puppies and kitties were excited to see us and Monday I picked up Rachel, Justin and Holly (my grand-dog) and took them back to Greensboro. She was really good on the ride home.