This summer, my family and I traveled to Middlebury, Vermont. Our reason for going was to visit our friends, the Merrill's. Mr. Merrill, is the language school director for Middlebury College so they live there in the summer. When we visited, the language programs summer study was going on and when the students arrive for the program, they take an oath to not speak english. Because the students could not speak english, neither could people while they were on campus because it tempts the students to speak in english as well. So when we would leave the house we were not allowed to speak when there was anyone in sight, was a student (and the students were everywhere.
When they live there they stay in a dorm house, just their family; it's pretty cool. When we visited them we stayed in the dorm house also. It's not your typical vacation housing but it was a neat experience. Middlebury College's campus is extremely beautiful and has so much different culture and natural beauty. The dorm was nestled in the adirondack mountains. Though Middlebury is beautiful there wasn't much to do for fun so we had to travel on day trips to fun spots around the state.
The first place we traveled was to Waterbury, Vermont and took a tour of the first ever Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory and store and then traveled 20 mins through and up the mountains to Bristol, Vermont. Bristol is a small town in the mountains and it is home to one of Vermont's many swimming holes and waterfalls. It was my favorite stop we made by far because you can jump off the side of the mountain into the swimming hole and swim and dive and rest on the ledge of the mountain. The water was probably -100 degrees but we had so much fun anyways.
Not only am I posting about my trip to Vermont because of how much fun and what a great experience it was, but to inform everyone who reads this on how important it is to follow directions on your GPS or Map. On our way to Vermont, when we were in New York, the most boring state to drive through, we merged onto the wrong highway and the GPS ended up taking us a really odd way that had us driving through the mountains, where there are no houses, gas stations, cell reception, bathrooms or humans (kind of felt like we were the last people on earth) and added a good three hours onto the trip. Has anyone else had a similar experience where they have gotten lost and had to find their way?
