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slipjig3(This is the first in what will hopefully be a short series regarding the recent five-day visit from my young'uns. Thank you.)
Dealing with two sugar- and adrenaline-enhanced under-eight children is a multiple step process, and can take many different routes, but the first step is almost always as follows: Get them out of the %&@$! house. As a result, we had ourselves a busy five days. The first grand adventure took place on Saturday, when we all road-tripped it up to Shelburne, Vermont, home to a sprawling outdoor historical museum that Anna remembered from her childhood, and a destination that took ferry rides across Lake Champlain to get to and from. Great fun was had by all (the ferry was a blast, and the museum allowed my children to point and laugh as Daddy strapped on a bonnet and apron in the dress-up section), but it reminded me that, really, Vermont is a very different beastie from upstate New York.
Here, then, is Adam's list of how to tell you're in Vermont now, Dorothy:
1) Full-service gas stations.
2) Drivers who won't run pedestrians clean off the road.
3) Drive-thru Ben and Jerry's shops every 20 yards.
4) The all-pervasive statewide Parfum de Cowflop.
5) Nice people. Really.
6) State-posted signs for every attraction, right on down to the transmission repair shop on the corner.
7) Cows friendly enough that you find yourself actually saying "hi" to them.
8) Bumper stickers for both presidential candidates (that'd be Kerry and Nader).
9) Roadside deer carcasses galore.
10) More bookstores than McDonald's.
Dealing with two sugar- and adrenaline-enhanced under-eight children is a multiple step process, and can take many different routes, but the first step is almost always as follows: Get them out of the %&@$! house. As a result, we had ourselves a busy five days. The first grand adventure took place on Saturday, when we all road-tripped it up to Shelburne, Vermont, home to a sprawling outdoor historical museum that Anna remembered from her childhood, and a destination that took ferry rides across Lake Champlain to get to and from. Great fun was had by all (the ferry was a blast, and the museum allowed my children to point and laugh as Daddy strapped on a bonnet and apron in the dress-up section), but it reminded me that, really, Vermont is a very different beastie from upstate New York.
Here, then, is Adam's list of how to tell you're in Vermont now, Dorothy:
1) Full-service gas stations.
2) Drivers who won't run pedestrians clean off the road.
3) Drive-thru Ben and Jerry's shops every 20 yards.
4) The all-pervasive statewide Parfum de Cowflop.
5) Nice people. Really.
6) State-posted signs for every attraction, right on down to the transmission repair shop on the corner.
7) Cows friendly enough that you find yourself actually saying "hi" to them.
8) Bumper stickers for both presidential candidates (that'd be Kerry and Nader).
9) Roadside deer carcasses galore.
10) More bookstores than McDonald's.
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