Today, M discovered the cruise control!!
We started with a lazyish start, having both slept really well in the nicest bed and room we have seen for a while and headed into to town to find some breakfast. Lincoln is a one road town and all of the cafes and restaurants were closed (combination of off-season, Sunday and Easter Sunday) so we had to opt for MacDonald's for the first (and hopefully the last). We then headed on the scenic route towards Vermont which was indeed very pretty.
We passed a Wal-Mart Superstar and stopped into get some supplies and chocolates for respective works and a new suitcase after the damage caused during the flight here finally claimed the big case. The store was absolutely huge, as were most of the tellers and a lot of the products themselves including the vegetables.
We stopped for lunch in Montpelier (pronounced Mont Peel yer) which is actually the state capital, with a population the same as Bishops Waltham. It is very pretty with a wild westish feel. We stopped at a very busy dinner that was listed in the guidebook and both had the burger from the specials menu while chatting to a nice older couple who were at the same large table as us.
We then continued onto Waterbury Vermont, home of Ben and Jerry's and went on the factory tour. This started with a film on the founding of the company by Ben and Jerry off the back of a $5 dollar correspondence course and all because an ice cream machine was cheaper than a bagel maker!
The tour then went to the mezzanine above the factory floor, it wasn't actually in opporation today (again, Easter Sunday) but you could see how they make half a million pints a day. The tour then finished in the sample room where we had a (well two in S's case after much goading from the tour guide) of orange and cream which was really quite nice (swirls of orange sorbet and vanilla ice cream not available in the UK), we then hit the shop before heading out into the still falling snow.
We then headed down the very pretty Route 100, stopping once at a very idyllic (but blinking cold) pond to Rutland (not pretty but cheap Motels) and found that again the only available food is chain fastfood so we opted for Pizza Hut.
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