As for our honeymoon last year, Dave and I went to our favorite fall getaway – Middlebury, Vermont. This time, since we wanted just a brief overnight trip, we didn’t travel north to Burlington, but instead spent a good day in Middlebury before traveling south on Route 7 (aka Antiques Galore) to the Bennington area. The weather was perfect foliage was incredibly gorgeous…it just makes me want to save up for a better camera to play around with and learn how to take pictures that will actually do it justice. And all the other inane stuff I want to photograph. (Y’know – branches, cats, future babies, furniture.)
To save you from many unnecessary paragraphs, here are some of the highlights of the trip:
Methinks it deserves a frame.
(And organic, nonetheless!)
These products are made about 15 minutes from where I live…and are sold in Vermont. Sweet!
The gorgeous falls…
And Dave playing around with the fly fisherman.
I LOVED this shop! Everything was either “awww, cute!” or gorgeously-styled.
And we left empty-handed. Bummer.
Our song. It was meant to be. Maybe I should’ve bought this little box, after all.
Twisting his imaginary moustache. How did we NOT purchase these? Oh, right. They were expensive.
Oh, right. They’re terrifying.
“Yellow Submarine” flashback.
These were pretty cool, but not practical…for us.
You can provide people with a “check” either providing a person extra karma points for awesome behavior, or withdrawing points for crappy behavior. Hmm. Maybe I could use these at school…
This was in a different store, but it’d be awesome to fill this thing. (With a baby.)
Another perspective on the falls, and, as Dave puts it, “an old building used to be there!”
Perfect little Vermont town.
So do we, Knitting Club Lady. So do we.
(Sew do we?)
The Middlebury Inn: 
And my ever-present, goes-with-practically-everything, gaudy purse. Enjoy.
No, he’s not really peeing. We like to mess around. You should see the pictures I DON’T publish for all the world to see. (See: How To Make a Marriage Last Only One Year – Post Peeing Pics)
Love this display of mirrors in the hall of the Middlebury Inn!
Treats with tea!
Love me a branchy tree picture.
(Let’s just say I have several very similar, yet slightly different versions of this one.)
Why didn’t we think of that? Oh, right. We hadn’t been there yet.
The incredible tavern at the inn, where we ate dinner.
Also my nieces name. Giddy.
We found some checkers in the hallway.
Dave insisted that he forgot how to play.
Pay no attention to the stomach rolls. It was the angle…yeah, that’s it.
complemented the room’s traditionalism.
Antiquing highlights: 
Dave found me some great vintage Christmas cards. Got some ideas for ‘em.
Old seed packets. This ran around $60. Seriously?!
More? Good thing we found some at Camelot Village later in the day. Project time!
Ewe. You’re creepin’ me out. And makin’ me sad.
(On a side note, this is our FA-VO-RITE antiques shop in Vermont.
It’s where we got our sideboard last year. :-D)
This place also has a barn full of stuff. This is the creepy upstairs o’ furniture.
Ya don’t see this in NY much…
And in the midst of a heavy afternoon of antiquing, Rachel’s provided us an on-the-go,
locally-made, all-natural option. Thanks, Rachel!
Such as their “Vermonter” sandwich, sweet potato chips and “adult soda”…
What we didn’t get pictures of:
– The best dang anniversary gift ever. After 12 months, we still hadn’t sifted through the plethora of wedding pictures to create a photo album (be it traditional or the online-make-your-own kind). So, when Navigator Meg told Driver Dave that we finally had a stretch of time on the horizon (he’d asked me several times “Okay, after that turn, do we have a long stretch yet?”), he pulled out a present from the backseat and threw in a CD. The gift: a gorgeous album that he’d made online of a selection of our professional photos (which, incidentally, he’d worked on here and there since December, mostly by lying to me that he had to stay late at work 20 minutes…and here I thought it was another girl ;-D Juuuuust kidding). The CD: Most of the music that helped make the day special. For example, here’s the first song (which we and our wedding party entered the reception to; how can you not giggle with giddiness at that intro?!) —
– The fun we had inside Camelot Village’s antiques shop. We visited this store a few years ago (during our first Vermont trip together, while there for a friend’s wedding) and took some wacky pictures. We got to the “village” too late last year. THIS year, I noticed that there was a sign discouraging the use of cameras and camcorders…to which my naughty husband said, “Good thing I have my cell phone.” We got a FEW pictures, but not nearly as many as the first time we went. 😉
– The Middlebury Co-Op. Millions more pictures should’ve been taken, but it was a hoppin’ joint the first time we went, and I’d forgotten my camera for the second visit. Two visits in a 24-hour span. Consider us hooked. Heck, Dave’s still talking about the soap. (Ah, yes, the soap. I should’ve snapped pictures of the soap.)
So, that was our awesome Vermont getaway! Hope it wasn’t too boring to relive with us. It was one of the best weekends I remember having in awhile, so it’s nice to jot down a little journal-like blogging to remember it in the long-term.
Looks like you guys had a blast! I love Vermont too. My grandparents used to live in Putney, VT, right outside of Burlington and then they moved to Bennington! I have very fond memories of visiting them!
Awwww that was fun! Thank you!
Thanks, ladies! 🙂 It was an awesome trip! (Cara – we'd so live there if we had the guts to leave our support system here. :-P)