Burlington

We had a great trip! I love Burlington, and should really go there more often. Just like last year, we were insanely lucky with the weather. On Saturday, it was a bit chilly and windy, but it only rained while we were taking a nap in our hotel. As soon as we got in our little car to go back downtown, the clouds parted and the world dried up. Sunday was beautiful; totally warm and sunny. And even though it's past peak foliage season, we were able to peep at some leaves.

We went to lunch at Madera's, which is where we had dinner last year. We were asshole door-busters, so we were the only ones there for most of our meal. The meal was delicious. We then walked around the water, where we saw a SNAKE! I'm convinced it was Champ, visiting the shore in his shape-shifted form. After walking around the lake and shopping on Church Street, we headed back to our hotel for a nap.

When we headed back downtown, we walked around more looking for a place to eat dinner. Burlington has a surprising number of Asian restaurants, and we went with Pacific Rim. They had various types of dishes, and the restaurant was super cozy. I had peanut noodles with chicken and some drink that involved club soda, cranberry, vodka, and ginger. It was yummy.

On Sunday, we spent some time in this Museum/Aquarium (although, I don't think you should call yourself an aquarium if you only have some big catfish and some turtles. I want to see SHARKS AND WHALES AND MAYBE CHAMP). They had a hurricane simulator, where you got into this little phone booth looking thing and the wind quickly went from nothing to 78mph. I did not like it. But then I got to pet a starfish!

On the drive home, we were looking for this Robert Frost trail that was supposed to be "6 miles east of Middlebury" but we couldn't find it. We did find this interfaith/spiritual path, which turned out to be pretty funny because all of the paths were named after different religions. We followed the children's path because it was supposed to be like 40 minutes long and we didn't want to be there forever, but it was only 10 minutes long. And at the end of it, there was a tree with a sign that said "Guess what kind of tree this is? APPLE! Bears eat apples off this tree!" and I got all freaked out because it's fall now and maybe some bears would be in a feeding frenzy and eat me. We followed some other paths, and it was a nice hike. I was in charge of bear lookout. We didn't get eaten.

The end!