Time in New England....

and other places, many other places have made me a BAD blogger. But I'm back!!!!! Anyway, some more photos of some of our fun adventures. In August, we spent Sandy's birthday weekend as well as another one at the Pocono house. So quiet, so peaceful, so much scrapbooking time. It's a weekend crop for FREE and Mom does the cooking {well I HAVE to bake}. We loaded down the car and actually left a bunch of stuff there for the 2 weeks between trips.



The weekend in between was a choir-sing weekend {Saturday night @6pm, Sunday morning @ 8, 9:30 and 11:15 am} and the Schroeder cousins reunion. Mom and her cousins, at least most of them, get together once a year since all their parents, the Schroeder brothers and sisters, are all gone now. The next generation isn't generally there unless their parent is the organizer which Mom was this year, but Sandy and I always get an invite since I have become the keeper of the family genealogy. That's the cousins and their spouses in the upper left photo.



After the excitement of getting to Alaska and the whole "we've been in all 50 states" thing, we got to thinking and remembering when we'd been to this state and that state, we then we ran into a problem. We couldn't remember being in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine so we decided that a weekend in New England was ABSOLUTELY necessary. So we zipped off on a Friday morning to Manchester, NH and spent the weekend driving through the states and hitting some highlights.



The photos: TOP ROW: The King Arthur Flour Baker's Store in Norwich, VT; me in the seat of honor in the lobby, the Cabot Cheese visitors center--lots of fun including a tour of the factory and cheese tasting.

MIDDLE ROW: Famous Perry Sisters Ice Cream--the newest Ben and Jerry's flavor! -- again a tour of the factory and ice cream samples, the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe (we didn't stay here but as a Sound of Music junkie we had to check it out!), a traditional New England covered bridge, a really cool pool about 5 minutes back a walking trail in Franconia Notch State Park.

We drove down to Lake Winnepasaukee and had lunch in a great turkey restaurant and hit Keepsake Quilting. The weather then got very cloudy and more dismal so no great lake shots, in fact the lake and the sky all blended together. By the time we got to Biddeford, ME it was foggy and raining. YUK!!!!

BOTTOM ROW: Portland Head Lighthouse--the traditional Maine coast shot, Walker Point at Kennebunkport {yes, this is the Bush family vacation house}, Nubble Lighthouse.

Found all kinds of great local restaurants, and lots of great backroads for scenery.

The last picture, the Scrap Etc. Pink, Brown and Teal Quilt finally finished and mailed off to its proud owner.

Coming next: off to Atlanta!

Enjoy,
Janet