mossy stairs

H and E invited us to share a house in Wilmington, Vermont for the long weekend. We (MO, JeT, and I) went up on Friday evening, arriving at the house in Wilmington around 10:30 pm. Our hosts and the rest of the gang (M, R(rrr), and the Bohninator) were already there. The house was quite cozy with the eight of us, but didn’t feel crowded. We got to sleep in the way awesome loft. We stayed up way past our bedtimes playing games, talking, knitting, and playing with Serina the kitty. Silly me didn’t take photos of the inside of the house, so you’ll have to depend on R(rrr)’s photos for that (here and here), and all the other stuff I missed. (She also gives a great re-cap of the weekend.) As usual, click on the photo to see the others in the set.

Saturday was spent at a farmer’s market (where I bought an awesome hat) and shopping in Brattleboro. We walked around town, browsing the bookshops, the thrift stores, etc. I bought a wicked awesome umbrella, that didn’t leave my side all weekend, and which came in quite handy. The weather was gorgeous: cool temps, blue skies, sunshine. It really was perfect. Even in that nice weather I’d wilt in the sun, though. I also bought a cute little bead in the shape of a mouse, which I will make into a stitch marker. After dinner we played games and (again) stayed up way too late chatting and laughing and what not.

On Sunday we walked down to Wilmington center and browsed the shops. I bought a necklace made of amber beads at an antique shop. It was only $15! It’s lovely. I love amber. Some might say it’s because I am a tree. Thank goodness I had my own shade on the walk back because whew! uphill! out of shape! After we refreshed ourselves back at the house, we got in the cars and drove to the park with the lake (I don’t remember the name… I’ll have to look it up and edit the post). Basically we just took pictures by the water, and then laid in the grass attempting to avoid the goose shit. After dinner and some games, we had a fire in the pit out back. E, Bohninator, and JeT kept it going quite nicely, indeed. Hooray for boy scouts and their hangers on.

While relaxing by the fire, we had a lovely round of “The Merkin Game,” where the goal is to replace one word of any film title with the word “merkin.” (ETA: link not work friendly.) JeT had some of the funniest (it’s always the quiet ones, eh?). I can’t remember them right now (knew I should have written them down), but post in the comments if you remember them. We had just learned the word that weekend, and it never stopped being funny.

Monday afternoon was spent at the park with the lake, where we had a lovely picnic lunch. We left the park around 4 and drove home from there. We got back in to town around 7 and were greeted by a highly agitated kitty. Once we picked him up he was perfectly content again, though. The Bean kept an eye on him while we were gone.

This was one of the best short vacations I’ve ever had. Nothing went wrong: the weather was perfect, the house didn’t explode with all of us in it (though I did catch the garlic bread on fire, but that was minor), no one injured themselves, cars behaved as they should… all in all a fantastic weekend. Thank you to all of our friends who made it so wonderful, and thanks again to H and E for inviting us to Vermont.

I should mention that we did pick up a few real estate catalogues.