{"id":753,"date":"2007-07-08T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/things-i-learned\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:06:00","slug":"things-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/things-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While vacationing with <a href=\"https:\/\/hergrace.livejournal.com\"><b>hergrace<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/elsaf.livejournal.com\"><b>elsaf<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/judiang.livejournal.com\"><b>judiang<\/b><\/a>, I discovered some interesting things, which I shall endeavor to share with you folks.<br \/> <lj-cut text=\"The List O' Interesting Things\"><\/p>\n<ul> <\/p>\n<li> Judi, Elsa and I can&#8217;t name all the state capitals to save our lives. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Steph&#8217;s in-laws are two of the most hospitable people you&#8217;re ever likely to meet. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Barns are painted red cuz the paint is inexpensive (confirmed with papa). <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> The wait for the Holland tunnel is longer than actually traveling through it. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Street lights in NYC are relatively coordinated with each other. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Grafton, VT is where the best Vermont Cheddar is made. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Steph&#8217;s boys are growing up so fast! I mean, the eldest has his learners permit now! Eeeep! <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Even with a room full of geeks, getting regular DVD players to play non-regular DVDs is pretty damned difficult. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> GPS units don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;re going if you don&#8217;t know either. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Garmin, the GPS manufacturer, has stock in the Holland Tunnel. (Well, that&#8217;s our best guess at its continual behavior to try and send us through it both times.) <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> You *can* go from Vermont to Philly without going through New York City. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Trina is still obsessing about driving through the Holland Tunnel and NYC. (Sheesh woman, GET OVER IT!) <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> The Vermont Country Store requires hours of looking in order to see (and taste) it all. I think I need another trip to VT. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s is no longer owned by Ben &#038; Jerry. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> How much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> There are still glassblowers around using the same equipment that was used centuries ago. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Vermont has Deer Crossing, Moose Crossing, Bear Crossing, and Truck Crossing signs. (I always wondered what happened when trucks went wild!) <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> When the airport security check your luggage, they pack it back up even better than it was when you packed it. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Judi liked the last ep of Doctor who least of the four of us. That surprised me to no end. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> I have some of the bestest friends in the world. (Well, I knew this before the trip, but it&#8217;s always great to confirm it.) <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> As lovely as Vermont is, There&#8217;s No Place Like Home. \ud83d\ude42 <\/li>\n<p> <\/ul>\n<p><\/lj-cut><br \/> Also, in the &#8220;It&#8217;s A Small World After All&#8221; stakes: Today at church, I found out one of the ladies there has a son who lives in Springfield, VT and attends a Unitarian Universalist Church in Chester. (She says it&#8217;s the old stone church &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know that was a UU church!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While vacationing with hergrace, elsaf and judiang, I discovered some interesting things, which I shall endeavor to share with you folks. Judi, Elsa and I can&#8217;t name all the state capitals to save our lives. Steph&#8217;s in-laws are two of the most hospitable people you&#8217;re ever likely to meet. 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