I have been an awful blogger this summer. I blame the summer courses. When I have to write, I write papers. However, I finished my last paper for one class (11 days early btw! I thought it would be much harder traveling!) and have one research paper for the other class left. But thank god staying at Aaron's parents all next week because I will do it then. That is not something I can do on the go. I need to just sit and do it!
Anyways.... The day after Fourth of July was a slug like day. We did a lot but at our pace-- which has felt like the theme of the trip! First stop-- Ben and Jerry's factory. Who doesn't like ice cream for breakfast. Now before you get all excited-- they only give you one sample. Really B&J? However they put so many tours on a day they probably couldn't scoop enough. But the flavor they give you is experimental-- which could be good or bad depending. We got lucky. Ours was delicious. It was a blueberry ice cream w chocolate chips. After this we headed to the flavor graveyard where old flavors go to rest. It was pretty neat!
Now it was BEER and passport stamping time! So right down the road from B&J was alchemist brewing, which supposedly has the best beer ever. It is called the Heddy Topper! The line was about 20 ppl deep and they give u a sample as you wait. We got three 4 packs at $12 a pop! What!!! Insanity! But we didn't go that far NOT to buy any!
We headed to Trapp Brewing which is also a lodge. Hey hot mess of unorganization. It took us 30 minutes to get our meat and cheese platter and two bowls of soup. We obviously drank our beers (me- Helles and him Porter) while we waited. However, the bartender/manager seemed to like Aaron bc he was wearing a lightning shirt. For our wait he gave us each a free beer. I asked for the helles and Aaron the Vienna. He brought a Vienna and a porter. Yea he had no idea what was going on. However, we drank them.
We headed to Long Trail Brewing as our last stop before the hotel (which was in Rutland VT!). We got the 6 glass sampler. Lets say we walked out w a six pack mix of 3 blueberry wheats and 3 something else. I can't remember at this point! We just went to a huge beer store in Ithaca today, so I am getting all our beer confused!
Finally we parked it at the hotel, grabbed a quick bite and hit the sack. We had a big day Saturday-- time to climb Mt Marcy. That should be quite the post. We hiked Saturday and I'm just getting unsore today-- you know Tuesday!
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