Steph's celebration: day 2
Today we rose to another beautiful day. The in-laws left for their game of golf. The girls, Xander and I headed to the Grafton Village Cheese Factory. It's a working cheese factory and we got to watch them make it along with a video on the process.
The welcome sign at Grafton
A worker salts the curds
A large cheddarer separates the water from the curds
The factory was located in the Vermont countryside, so we took some photo ops.
More bucolic Vermont
A covered bridge next to the factory
We don't see this in Chicago
Trina and Steph taking in the sights
We then proceeded to the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury. This was their original manufacturing plant and corporate headquarters built in 1985. It's become a Disney-type attraction with a tour of the plant, ice cream shoppe and gift store. Quite a moooving experience.
The Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Waterbury
In addition, the experience was very fattening. We gorged on Peach Cobbler, Brownie, Batter, and AmeriCone Dream. Trina and I opted to buy and split a Creme Brulee for tomorrow, after finishing off Dublin Mudslide and Chocolate Fudge Brownie from yesterday. I think we need to buy stock in Ben & Jerry's. We headed home, totally stuffed. Life is good.
"James Marsters dipped in Chunky Monkey...mmmmm."
Xander checks to see if I haven't exploded yet.
We returned home to find Trina's DVD of Last of the Time Lords didn't burn. Steph's DVD had a glitch in it. I was about to see if I could do on my own laptop when Trina managed to burn the damn thing. This DVD glitched too but Steph coaxed the DVD player to work properly. Finally, we all watched the episode. But that's another story.