i will not be moving to rutland, vt....ever

so last friday i found out i had to go to rutland, vt to do a property tour for a rep and his client on monday. nice notice, right? but i figured, that's ok... at least it will break up the week and make it go by a little faster. so i decided to drive to rutland which should be about 4.5 hours and it was. the drive really wasn't too bad at all. but then my gps device died and i didn't have a charger for it. luckily i printed out the directions and was able to follow them the good old fashioned mapquest way. i made it to my destination which for those of you who do not know - rutland is about 10 miles from killington. ok, for those of you who still have no idea... killington is a big east coast ski resort.

and rutland is also about an hour south of burlington which is the biggest city, but not the capital. the capital is montpellier. but i digress...i made it about 730pm that evening and decided to order from a local restaurant...little nicky's or something along those lines. if you are ever in rutland, don't order from there. it was terrible!

so tuesday is the day of my property tour. only i get a call from the rep saying the flight is delayed and they'd be about 2 hrs late. ok fine. but then i kept getting the delayed calls. and then the dreaded call: they cancelled their flights and were going to drive the following day. well, under strict orders from the boss man only days before, we were not allowed to let any go up there and tour the property by themselves. so i had a free day in rutland b/c i had to spend the night and extend my stay. oh joy! what is there to do in rutland? NOTHING! so i drove around. checked out the scenery. but you can only do that for so long. and then i went to the mall we bought that i was supposed to give the tour of. and bought a phone charger from the radio shack (remember i only packed for one night thinking i'd be home tues night). and then went to old navy. folks, this mall is nothing to write home about shopping wise. investment wise, well it's a great deal, but shopping wise, it just isn't a place that appeals much to me with such tenants as kmart, jc penney, and sears among others.
so then i went back to the hotel. took a nap out of pure boredom. watched a ppv movie - we are marshall - which i highly recommend. it's a great tearjerker...only i didn't cry. maybe some tears welled up at one point, but i think i was still groggy from my nap. in any case... after that, i read some and watched some more tv.

finally! the property tour day. my tourees arrived around 1130am and we toured the mall and the town until about 330. i hadn't eaten all day and was starving. so i devoured wendy's (trust me, by far the best option) and got on the road around 345ish. it was rainy here, rainy there but not too bad...until it decided to DUMP rain. and i mean, it was the scary torrential type of rain. there were times i couldn't see the 18 wheeler in front of me. luckily he turned on his flashers and then i could make out those lights. at times i thought about just spending another night somewhere along the way, but i just wanted to get home. so i perservered through the torrential downpour and finally got home safely around 8pm last night. what a nightmare drive though!

i do have some pictures (not of all the rain, i had to concentrate on the driving part), but i do have some pics from around the great town of rutland and killington. it really is quite pretty, but... i don't think i'll be moving there anytime soon!