Vacation '09 - Our First Night - VT

Reflecting back on our summer vacation of '09 that I have mentioned in past blog entries, I remember our first night was spent in a little old motel in VT.  The motel was due to be torn down in the fall to put up elderly housing.  This is a motel that I would have loved to visit again.  It was a wonderful little motel with simple amenities.  

Each room had it's own balcony.  Cooper really enjoyed our balcony.  We could leave our slider open and allow Cooper to come in and out as he pleased.  There was a chair on the balcony that he liked sitting on to watch out over a brook in the back yard.  He couldn't see much, other than nature, so there was nothing stressful for him to feel like he needed to guard against.  He was very relaxed and content to just sit and watch nature.

We took Cooper on a walk to that brook while we were out walking around the grounds.  We allowed Cooper to be off leash for a while so he could explore.  He really enjoyed the brook a lot.  There were a couple of fallen trees that made a sort of bridge across the brook.  Cooper liked to walk across the little bridge as if he was a cat.  He sniffed and played in the water and got his feet wet.  Since he was only two years old, we didn't really know what he would do with the stream of water.  He had never seen one before.  He seemed to really enjoy that the water was moving.  He was curious and cute in his investigation of his surroundings.  It seemed as though we could have walked away from him and he wouldn't have even noticed.  He was so interested in this moving water and all the things in and around it.

When it came time for us to go back into the motel and relax, Cooper seemed very content to be allowed to look out the window or go out on the balcony.  He didn't seem bored at all.  This motel was as calming for him as it was for us.  If it wasn't for our schedule, we may have wanted to stay another night.

Some day I would like to go by there again and see what they did to the place after we left.  Maybe this summer will allow us to go in that direction again to take a peak.