First Day

12:30 pm on May 14th marked the beginning of our eleven hour journey to Brattleboro Vermont-brightened only by Seth's choice to sit next to a man in his late 50's who made time feel like it was of no importance. We told our life stories, and discussed politics, idealistic youth, dogs, and education. When it was finally time to go our separate ways, after warm felt greetings to Nic and Kacy, we said goodbye as if we were actually going to see each other again. I should trust Seth's judgment more often. He was spot on.

Today was absolutely amazing. I don't think we could have packed more into 12 hours than we did. We woke up late, missing Kacy on her way to work, and immediately went to the brook in the backyard to play around. Seth and Wilbur played fetch in the water while Nic and I talked and threw rocks (Well, I threw rocks, Nic skipped them). After a quick breakfast and Wilbur proofing the house, we decided to walk to town and check out the thrift shop. There we found vintage roller skates that fit both me and Nic! What luck. We could barely believe it. And then we found a sweet old leather couch corner for $50 and had to have it. We bought it. Bought the roller skates. and walked home. It wasn't long before our excitement over the roller skates died when we realized mine were two left feet.. some luck we had. Oh well. At least Nic has a pair.

On to the Connecticut River. Nic wanted to take us across the bridge over the river to show Seth how easy it was to walk to the next state: New Hampshire. Seth thought that was pretty cool. Nic then decided it would be pretty awesome to take us under the bridge to sit and look at the river with the cars over our heads. I agreed and found it was pretty awesome like he said. Seth thought so too.

We saw some other pretty awesome sights one of which was a "stone park"-- a word I learned from Kaia. Seth had no idea what a stone park was and when he found out it was a cemetery he was not at all too pleased. But it didn't take much running around to find that cemeteries can be fun--especially when some head stones date back to the 1700's. The Brattleboro cemetery is the coolest cemetery I have ever been to, actually it is the only cemetery I have been to simply for enjoyment.

All of this excitement took place before 12:30 when we picked Kacy up for her lunch break. We decided to eat on the street at a hot dog vender's booth. I know-- hot dogs-- but he had veggie dogs! I could not believe it. That was an experience in itself. Between 1:30 and 4:00 we had some down time before we had to pick up the before mentioned couch piece. Moving it proved to be no easy task as we do not have a vehicle that could aid us in the process. So, we walked with it for 3 blocks to the house. Fun and tiring at the same time. At least Seth enjoyed himself.

If that wasn't enough, we played tennis, or something like tennis, until it was time to make dinner. Which turned out to be more like a feast-- with enough pad thai and tempura vegetables to feed 10 people. Finally the day is through and we can sleep in tomorrow.