Suzanne got Linda and I to our motel, we checked in and then went to get something to eat.  We just got it to go, because it was late and we were all exhausted.  Suzanne dropped us off at the motel and Linda and I ate in our room.  At one point when I was done eating and Linda was finishing, she looked over at me with a gazed look in her eyes and said, "Are we where we're supposed to be?"  I answered with, "As opposed to what?"  We both just cracked up laughing and having been so tired we were just silly!  I laughed until I cried.  What Linda meant was that we had actually changed motels from the original plans, unbeknownst to us until we got there.  I was clueless and kept telling them I was along for the ride.  This country girl just didn't want to have to drive in the city!

The next morning I was promptly up at 6:00 am, Eastern, mind you!  I guess 6:00 is 6:00 to me no matter where I am.  I can't go back to sleep, so I'd get up and get dressed and try to sneak out of the room to let Linda sleep.  She was 3 hours behind!

Suzanne picked us up about noon and we went to her house to help her get ready and then hit the road to Vermont!  I got to see her goats and chickens.  She was missing a chicken and looked high and low for it.  I finally told her to go get ready and I'[d find the chick.  I found it all right.  It was DOA in the bottom of the box.  She came back out (with heavy gloves) and retrieved the chick.  (I handed it to her bare handed.)  She tossed it in the woods for nature to take care of it and when her daughter, Sophia, found out it wasn't given a proper burial, she was not happy.  We assured her that nature would take care of things perfectly. 

We were finally on our way to Vermont!  The trees out there are amazing.  I now know why the fall colors can be so gorgeous!  It would be fun to go back to see the colors sometime.

All of the list members had reservations at a local restaurant Thursday evening.  It was so fun to have each of them arrive and finally put faces to the names!  Some of them were dead on, others were not what I had pictured in my mind at all.  We had a great time at dinner but the weird thing to Linda and I was that they served us popcorn before dinner!  Suzanne said all pubs do that back there.  I guess it makes you thirstier and then you order more to drink.  It was just the most bizarre thing we'd ever encountered!  After dinner, we shuffled off to the motel, exhausted yet again!  We had to be up and ready to leave by 9:00 am.  Shouldn't be a problem for me!