(Rachel)Hi Everyone, We are 4 days from getting home and I can't wait to sleep in my own bed! Right now we are in Vermont and it is very mountainous and pretty here. Yesterday we woke up and had doughnuts for breakfast. They were delicious!!! Then we drove to a maple factory, Maple Groves Farms, the largest canner in the US. I learned that it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of syrup. I also learned that there are severeal different kinds of maple syrup; light, sorta light, medium and dark. It was very fascinating there. We got to go on a tour through the factory and watch people making maple candies. We got to try some maple candy. They were very sweet but good. Then we went to Ben & Jerry's. It is a huge factory and the people there are kooky because they get to take home 3 pints of ice-cream every single day! For my amazement, one-half the people there weren't that fat. We got 3 different kinds of ice-cream to try, Berry Berry Extroidinary. It was delicious! The second one was Coffee Coffee Buzz, Buzz, Buzz. It was good too! The last one we got was lemon sorbet. It was sour, but still delicious, but not as good as my mommy's lavender sorbet! Ben & Jerry sure made a lot of weird names for the ice-cream, like Phish Food, God Father and Fossil Fuel. On the tour we learned how Ben & Jerry got together and created a little gas station into a huge world wide company. We went up to a graveyard then. It wasn't a normal graveyard, but one of ice-cream skeletons! There were tombstones for flavors that didn't make it.

Earlier in the day we saw lots of maze signs with corn pictures. We decided to follow the arrows. After about 12 miles, we were about to give up but then we saw the corn maze. We were expecting a 15 minute maze, but found out it was a 2 hour maze! We were disappointed and about to give up when my dad asked the guy about it. He said there were lots of other smaller mazes. THere was a smaller 15 minute maze and 2 box mazes where you could only turn one direction. They also had a barn with tunnels underground. The only thing about the tunnel was that Wilson & I had to crawl. Lena began chasing us and she could stand up and go fast and would always end up winning!