January Quechee Vacation weekend highlights

Beckyfriend ( and me too,  if she's going to get in trouble) copies Kelcy's drawing of "HENDRIX" for Judd's DrawFree-- and Judd "gets" it. ..... I think because of the purple sparkles.....

Baking classes

King Arthur Flour
Norwich, VT

Serious shopping

Grinding flour

All Hail King Rebecca!

wheat art

Simon Pearce glass blowing..... I'm too cheap to take company there for lunch....so we go to cheese tasting and wine tasting at the  Quechee Gorge Village Cabot store and then Lebanon's Lui Lui instead.

"Do you make seconds on purpose?" (okay, I asked that)

Re-done Quechee covered bridge which wasn't there in the summer

cold water wasn't there in the summer either

Quechee Gorge

the other side

Special Highlights:

-watching the Erskine Academy rendition of Little Shop of Horrors, with credits by Hallee Breton / Mr. Mushnik played by Ryley:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YepXrUp97-I

-so MANY unicorn references:  Oryx on my Prezi, books and statuary at the Quechee Antique Mall, and then, card shopping in Woodstock at THE UNICORN

- Ukulele Anthem - Amanda Palmer (Studio Version) - YouTube

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--meeting interesting Sarah from Putney Winery table who let us taste, at no charge, since we were "just tasting dry wines"--She gave us insider scoop on living in the Upper Valley, i.e. where to buy cheap gas on Tuesdays/ which sushi was good and which was eye-rolling bad. When she knew Becky was from  Brooklyn, she asked about how to get to JFK airport for her Birthright Israel tour, being "the only Jew in Vermont" ( I'd never heard of the tour but Becky had)  www.birthrightisrael.com/

--tour of cute Quechee library on Saturday 

--tour of unbelievably-open-on-Sunday Hanover library

--hostess gifts from Becky:

okay, it's a scary, dark  picture.... but she sweetly recalled a time when we admired lime green rubber gloves and we said we'd love to wash dishes if we had lime green gloves.... and now I do.......also home made healing natural balm..... No picture of the pinot grigio...it's all gone.......