Our trip to VT
I've been meaning to blog about our Vermont vacation for some time now. We left on Sunday morning, not too early, and headed up to Glens Falls to ski at a fantastic free ski area called Coles Woods. So beautiful - groomed trails, about an hour's worth, and just fabulous skiing. After a lunch of PB&J in the car that I'd packed from home we went on up to our hotel room in Burlington. The hotel was a freebie - I had points from a credit card that paid for 2 nights. We had a pleasant trip to the hot tub and then a friend of Jim's and her husband came over to our room (we had a suite) for dinner.
I had made lasagna at home and we'd brought some beer so dinner was another freebie. We had a good time - the room was nice so we could just relax.
Monday morning we had our included-in-the-room rate breakfast and headed down to Vergennes to our scratch n' dent discount grocery store. Love that place - we spent $100 but got easily $200 worth of groceries.
I had packed good food for lunches (leftover pizza and lasagna) and we had lunch before heading to downtown Burlington.
I got our First Night buttons as part of a deal - they were only $25 for the two, our first expenditure of the trip, other than gas ($40). We had a fantastic time seeing terrific music! As was the case last year, dinner was a bit of a puzzle, we ended up at a church having a too-small bowl chili and then to Starbucks where I had a coupon (of course) and we got coffee and a large piece of coffee cake to get us by. We spent only $12 on food.
We stayed until almost midnight and hopped on the bus back to our car and then to the hotel - it was a bit of a blizzard but it didn't amount to much. In the AM we partook of the freebie breakfast and then hit Glens Falls Coles Hill again on the way home. I made a packed lunch of PB&J before we left to eat in the car again.
The entire vacation, three days/two nights, two half-days of skiing, all meals and entertainment and gas cost $77 (including the tip for the maid). More than many would spend on a NYE dinner out! And we had SUCH a great time. Our favorite activities - skiing, live music, dinner with friends, hot-tubbing, and cable TV. Can't wait to do it again!
I had made lasagna at home and we'd brought some beer so dinner was another freebie. We had a good time - the room was nice so we could just relax.
Monday morning we had our included-in-the-room rate breakfast and headed down to Vergennes to our scratch n' dent discount grocery store. Love that place - we spent $100 but got easily $200 worth of groceries.
I had packed good food for lunches (leftover pizza and lasagna) and we had lunch before heading to downtown Burlington.
I got our First Night buttons as part of a deal - they were only $25 for the two, our first expenditure of the trip, other than gas ($40). We had a fantastic time seeing terrific music! As was the case last year, dinner was a bit of a puzzle, we ended up at a church having a too-small bowl chili and then to Starbucks where I had a coupon (of course) and we got coffee and a large piece of coffee cake to get us by. We spent only $12 on food.
We stayed until almost midnight and hopped on the bus back to our car and then to the hotel - it was a bit of a blizzard but it didn't amount to much. In the AM we partook of the freebie breakfast and then hit Glens Falls Coles Hill again on the way home. I made a packed lunch of PB&J before we left to eat in the car again.
The entire vacation, three days/two nights, two half-days of skiing, all meals and entertainment and gas cost $77 (including the tip for the maid). More than many would spend on a NYE dinner out! And we had SUCH a great time. Our favorite activities - skiing, live music, dinner with friends, hot-tubbing, and cable TV. Can't wait to do it again!