Just got back home from a 3-day weekend in Stowe, VT. Laura and I stayed at the Green Mountain Inn which is on the Register of National Historic Places. Visited Mt. Mansfield ski area, watched a cross-country ski competition, took a horse-drawn sleigh ride at the Trapp Family Lodge (family from the movie "Sound of Music"), and took a snowshoe hike around the back of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream factory. LOTS of snow and icicles everywhere. VERY cold. Ate at the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier. Also drove through Deerfield Village, Mass. (site of the 1704 Deerfield Massacre) on the way up. Drove past Vermont's State House, where in 1777, their constitution was drawn up.