VT weekend

This past weekend, we journeyed to VT to have a wedding reception for M's side of the family. Since our wedding was very very small, we opted to do this with them afterward or it would have doubled our wedding size, literally. We had 17 guests at the wedding and there were 20 at the dinner on Saturday. My mother in law chose the place since it's easier for her to scope places out than for us. It was an Italian restaurant in the cute downtown area, the function room was really pretty with exposed brick walls and really high ceilings.

The food was good, which I always doubt will be the case when you have that many people ordering at the same time. We started with a puffed pastry appetizer that was actually pretty spicy, it had shrimp in it though so my father in law reluctantly had to push his plate aside or I would have to put my nursing skills into action :) Then there was a salad with goat cheese and walnuts, then the entree. The 3 choices were crabmeat stuffed chicken roulades (I chose this), a salmon dish, or beef tenderloin. By far the beef outweighed the chicken, but both were quite tasty.

Since M's father's 60th is fast approaching, we made it into a birthday party also, so a birthday cake was had for dessert. Incidentally, one of M's uncles surprised us all by announcing that he and his fiance had gotten married over the weekend and were just back from a honeymoon on the coast of Maine. It was a really nice night and it was very nice to see everyone. I was really impressed by the speech that M's father made...he's not much of a public speaking guy and is not really prone to give speeches so it was very thoughtful that he prepared something.

After the dinner, people lingered for awhile looking at family pics that one of M's aunts brought along and around 10pm people started leaving. We had a lovely 2 hour drive to look forward to because we were staying at M's parents house because there were no available rooms anywhere pretty much in NH or Vt because of an auto show that was happening.

We headed home after picking some fresh apples from the in laws trees and ridding their garden of some carrots and potatoes.

I mostly studied in the car but there's really only so long I can do this, especially when there is a podcast playing instead of music...harder to tune it out. I am proud to mention that I am only 2.5 repeats away from finishing panel A on the Burridge Lake Aran Blanket. Then on to panel B. I'll be so grateful to have a different combination of stitches to do!!