Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - Happy Birthday Brett; Breakfast; Perkins Pier; World's Tallest Filing Cabinet; Vermont Flannel Company; Oil Change in South Burlington; Dakin Farms in Ferrisburgh; Beautiful Falls, Vergennes; Cold Hollow Cider Mill & Cabot Creamery Annex, Woodbury; Grilled Burgers by Dean

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - Happy Birthday Brett; Breakfast; Perkins Pier; World's Tallest Filing Cabinet-Burlington; Vermont Flannel Company, Ferrisburgh; Oil Change in South Burlington; Daken Farms, Ferrisburgh; Beautiful Falls, Vergennes; Cold Hollow Cider Mill & Cabot Creamery Annex, Woodbury; Grilled Burgers by Dean.

We covered alot of ground on Tuesday.

First of all Happy Birthday to our son Brett (Dean's 2nd son)!  We hope you had a wonderful day!

Since we have not had breakfast out for awhile we decided today would be a great opportunity.  I chose Penny Cluse Cafe in downtown Burlington.  (Burlington is the largest city in the state of Vermont, population  42,417.)  This was a busy place and we had to look pretty hard for a parking spot.  Fortunately we found an easy spot for us to park (that's not always an easy task), about a block and half away, which made for a nice morning walk to the cafe.  We had a short wait, before we were taken to our table in an upper loft.  

In front of you, down a short flight of stairs, is the kitchen.  I think if I worked here I might actually lose weight running up and down the stairs all day!  Can you imagine?  Talk about strong legs!!

My wonderful breakfast.  2 corn tortillas with scrambled eggs, avacado crema, black beans, cabbage slaw.  It was DELICIOUS!

Dean chose his normal breakfast (except he went with bacon rather than sausage), 2 over medium eggs, home fries and wheat toast.  He said it was really good.

Penny Cluse Cafe

After breakfast we visited a couple of sites I wanted to stop at here in Burlington before we headed on south.  

Perkins Pier

About Dr. Charles Perkins

Sailboats!

This duck found a nice place to rest!

World's Tallest Filing Cabinet

If you want to more about the "World's Tallest Filing Cabinet click here.


Our next stop was south of Burlington at the Vermont Flannel Company in Ferrisburg, VT.  You may have heard of this company, as it's been around for many years.  They have beautiful flannel gifts - flannel shirts, pants, night shirts, house coats, blankets, etc.  We enjoyed looking but we did not leave with any purchases.  

covered bridge at Vermont Flannel Company

 You can check out their items online here.

Vermont Flannel Company, Ferrisburg, VT

Old sewering machine on display in Vermont Flannel Company

We had to hurry back to South Burlington when we left here.  Dean scheduled an oil change for the truck and our appointment was at 1:00 - we made it with about 5 minutes to spare.  They had a really neat operation that we have not seen before.  Two long drive through bays where customers could pull their vehicles in for service.  This would really be great in rain or snowy weather.  We left the truck here and waited in their very nice customer lounge.  They provided soda fountain drinks, water, coffee, and snacks.  They also had a doc station so you could charge your electronic devices if needed - and I needed it!  Although, while reading emails, I almost fell asleep.  I thought if I had something to drink it might help, so I got Dean a small coke and I chose a small sprite from their fountain drinks.  I took one drink of my sprite and it tasted like soda water - ugh!  I think this one had run out of syrup.  At least it woke me up and I spent the rest of our wait time playing a game on my phone.  The service department was very efficient and we were leaving less than an hour after we arrived.  We like that kind of service.

Dean wanted to go back to Ferrisburg to Dakin Farms.  It wasn't that far but it did require retracing our earlier trip.  What a neat place this was.  I would have loved buying so many things here, but we just don't have that much room.  We did leave with a few items, including some maple flavored popcorn, some Maine blueberries and a smokey maple flavoring that is supposed to be really good on boneless chicken thighs. If you are interested in what Dakin Farms has to offer check out their website here.  I did take a catalog.  We tasted their maple syrup and it was delicious.  We liked the least sweet one - Grade 1 or A.  The next one Grade 2 or B was also good, but it was a little sweeter.

In nearby Vergennes, we found some beautiful falls.  

Another gorgeous barn.

Leaving the falls, it was still fairly early in the day, so we decided to drive on to Waterbury, VT to visit the Cold Hollow Cider Mill.

Beautiful scenery along the highway to Waterbury

Beautiful home in Waterbury

We walkd through the Cold Hollow Cider Mill.  I could not leave without buying 1/2 gallon of apple cider and getting each of us one of their cider doughnuts.  We enjoyed looking at all of the  displays in their gift shop, and tasting their maple syrup as well.  It was also quite good.

A little information on how many apples are needed for cider.

Our next stop was just a short distance away at the Cabot Creamery Annex.  The Creamery had at least a dozen or more types of cheese available for testing, along with a number of jellies, jams and butter.  We bought a packed of sliced jack cheese to go with some crackers for snacks.  

It was almost 5:00 when we returned to the campground.  We were both tired and very hungry.  Other than the samples we had at the various "farms, creameries, etc." we had not eaten since breakfast.  Dean grilled some hamburgers.  I buttered the buns and he placed those on the grill to toast.  I added cheese to the burgers before taking them off the grill.  What-a-burger!  Delicious!!  

We were pretty well spent but we did get in an evening walk - which we've been doing here every night. 

Tomorrow we have another busy day planned...come back to see what we find to do on our last day in Vermont.