Vermont

My husband and I went with another couple to visit a friend in Vermont. They lived in Burlington, right near Lake Champlain. We slept there two nights. They took us to see many lovely places. We saw the University of Vermont. We went inside and all around the grounds. We saw the cows and horses and greenhouses. We enjoyed it all. We also went to see Saint Michael's College. We were glad to see both places because our son-in-law, Dino, had gone to school at both of them. We enjoyed talking to Dino about them.

It was the time of the changing of the leaves in Vermont. The colors were like magic when we were riding around. They were red, yellow, orange, and green. It was lovely looking up and down the mountains and seeing all the gorgeous colors.

We went across Lake Champlain with our car on a ferry from Burlington to Plattsburg N.Y. The waters were rough. It rocked us from one side to the other. Our friends said to my husband, “If you can take this, you can take a cruise sometimes. It is hardly ever this rough.” The next week our friends wrote and sent a clipping from a newspaper saying that it was the worst weather that they had had in many years. No wonder the boat was so rocky. We stopped at Lake George on our way home. It is a peaceful place. We had supper in Lake George in a quaint-looking place. We were tired but very happy with the trip.

We gave our friends, John and Kay Tobia, a blue spruce my husband grew from a seedling. We gave it to them as a house gift when they bought a new house in Haworth, N.J. Today the tree is huge and very pretty. The Tobias call it the Lupardi tree. They are very happy with it.

Time rolls on and we don't realize it. Our children were all married and owned their own homes. Our oldest grandchild, Judy, was about to graduate from Wagner College as a nurse. She graduated cum laude; we were all thrilled for her.