Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Top Five Tuesday -- Vermont/Connecticut Style

Top Five Funnest Things About Our Trip To New England
1. The Ben and Jerry's Factory -- Aside from the free samples and the extreme glee and joy in muh wife's eyes, there was a Flavor Graveyard... that's right.. tombstones and everything describing the dead flavors. Pretty fun!
2. The road signs crack me up. "Moose Crossing" A Buckle Up sign with ET in a seat belt... are all very odd.
3. It was nice to not worry about anything but relaxing and a random email from work.
4. We went to a winery... there was literally a motorcycle gang in there doing a wine tasting... extremely surreal.
5. Our hotel accomodations... thanks to Minna and Dave!

Top Five Best Things We Consumed On Our Trip
1. Free samples at the Ben and Jerry's factory
2. Food at the Grist Mill. This was a top notch place... http://www.gristmillrestaurant.com/
3. Hopkins Vineyard wine... yum yum in muh tum...
4. Cocoa Krispies.....why do I have to wait until Continental breakfasts to get that? Now really... I can go to a store and buy it... It isn't that hard!
5. Anything at SENOR PANCHOS! What a great name!

Top Five Reasons Why Getting "Lost" is Fun
1. We found a winery with a biker gang trying out wine.
2. We asked for assistance in a really local wine/beer shop for directions to any winery and they were in the middle of a wine tasting at 11:15 in the morning on a Friday! It was great.
3. We found a train museum of sorts...without anyone in it.
4. We found an old furnace inthe woods that led us to a path to a small white water rapids spot.
5. Senor Panchos... who knew... a chain could be so much fun.

Top Five Dead Ice Cream Flavors Inscriptions
1. White Russian
2. Holy Cannoli
3. Peanuts! Popcorn!
4. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt
5. Devil's Food Chocolate

Top Five Worst Candidate Names on Campaign Signs (How do you say some of these?)
1. Bill Bonk -- Just dumb...
2. Tim LeBouthillier -- Frenchie?
3. Zalman Nakhimovsky -- Umm... what?
4. Peter Bagdigian -- Planning and Zoning... planning to be second highest score in a Scrabble game?
5. Edward Giannaros -- I would like a side of penne please...

Top Five States We Visited
1. Connecticut... yeah... I know...
2. Vermont
3. Massachusetts
4. New York
5. Happiness

2 comments:

tangentwoman said...

I keep forgetting about the bikers at the winery! Which is weird, because it was so bizarre and hilarious. I wish we'd gotten pictures of them. Thank you for a great trip :)

Smelmooo said...

If I had taken pictures... Tucker would have no father.