getaway

Dave and I went on an overnight-er this week, courtesy of Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend, Vermont. Dave has always had an interest in rural medicine and we thought it was a good opportunity to find out a little more about rural family practice. We traveled to Townshend, toured the hospital, had dinner with one of the physicians, stayed the night, explored the area and then headed home. It was just what we needed!

We stayed at a little Inn in Newfane, Vermont called the Four Columns Inn. It was awesome! For a few hours Dave was at the hospital shadowing and I got to sit and relax (read: sleep) in our room.

Later that evening we went to dinner with one of the doctors at Grace Cottage. The restaurant was just down the block from our Inn, and was established in 1787! The food was great, the company even better. We talked a lot of medicine, but mostly about life and the doctor and his wife were so nice and easy to talk to. We were there for 3 full hours.

The village green that our Inn and the restaurant were on was really cool. This is the actual county courthouse. (The Inn was right behind it.)



(I love all the history that surrounds where we live. It is so neat to see such old stuff still in use!)

When we left, we headed to the town of Battleboro for lunch, and for a stop at the Grafton Cheese Factory to sample some Vermont cheese and buy some really cool bottles of syrup.

The getaway was awesome and we are so glad we did it.