Farm Crawl!!!

Farm Crawl 2009 was epic. So epic, in fact, that Farm Crawl Iraq could happen. Carlee and I invited our UVM friend Natalie for a weekend of reminiscing and trouble making. We didn’t plan ahead and played it mostly by ear, which is how we like it.

She arrived on Friday night, shortly after 9pm and even before she entered the door had broken a beer bottle. We cleaned up and invited her in. Natalie brought Carlee a Sparks, ‘cause we’re classy. With the three of us together it was as if we’d seen each other at least once in the past two years. We started talking like there were no breaks, bantering back and forth, poking fun at ourselves, our school and a couple of our friends. After a couple of hours we went to bed knowing the epic day that lay ahead.

Carlee woke up first, of course, and went on a 16 mile run. I woke up second and did what felt like a half assed Fran but ended up being really good for me, 2:46 (PR). I think what happened was that I decided not to drop off the bar but instead take an extra 2-3 seconds between thrusters and pull-ups for rest. Jason “Rhabdo” Kaplan’s sub 2-min still seems miles away. Natalie woke up, we showered, dressed and made our way to Michaels for some Pumpkin Bread French Toast, eggs, sausage and home fries. I think Natalie came away impressed, and full.

The Lyman Orchards was the first stop on our Farm Crawl bucket list. We crushed it. George Washington/Barack Obama Maize Maze had no chance although it was surprising how much harder Carlee’s trivia questions were. After the maze, venturing into the whirlpool of people known as the Apple Barrel and stealing a peach we ventured down the road to the Durham Fair, known simply to us as Farm Fair! Farm Fair was an extraordinary sight to behold. Food as far as the eye could see and manure as far as the nose could smell. We polished off our crowded snails pace walking with root beer floats and maybe a sense that we were more patriotic for having visited.

On our way back to Cheshire we hit up a couple of orchards to make Farm Crawl 2009 legit. In total: 4 orchards, 1 Farm Fair, a Maize Maze and a stink that I don’t think I can get out of my nose.

Was I exhausted? Absolutely. Was I hungry? Absolutely not. Will we do it again next year? You bet.

Farm Crawl 2009 was epic.