Day 10, Vermont

We started the day off by visiting the Cabot Creamery, where we saw how cheese was made and packaged. The factory was only making cheddar today, but it was really neat to see how all the machines worked together in order to create giant blocks of cheese. We tasted a wide variety of cheeses and dips, my favorite being the Jalapeno Cheese.
We then headed over to the Ben and Jerry's, where we took a tour of the factory. The tour started off with a movie on how Ben and Jerry got their little ice cream business started, and was followed by a talk on how the machinery works to create ice cream through an 8-step process. The tour ended with tasting a sample of the flavor Image Whirl Peace, which was absolutely delicious.

We canceled our Camel's Hump State Park hiking plans for today and added the Von Trapps Lodge to our schedule (this was the singing family from The Sound of Music). The Lodge was a beautiful wooden building which overlooked a blanket of tree covered mountains. We didn't stay long though; we just took a couple of pictures and walked around the lobby and gift shop.

With the day coming to an end, we headed to our hotel. When we opened the door to our room we could instantly smell a strong smoke odor. We notified the front desk, but they told us that since we made reservations through Orbitz, a third party, they had given our room to someone who ordered directly through them. With all the other rooms full, we demanded that our room be sprayed. But when an employee came out from behind the desk with a Ka-Boom bottle in hand, we knew immediately that we had to move to another hotel. So after a series of phone calls and internet searches we now had a room in a hotel that was 100% smoke-free. With a much nicer room that doesn't reek of smoke, there's no doubt we'll all sleep good tonight.

Tomorrow we head to upstate New York. Adirondacks and Lake Placid. Hard to believe we head home in three days.