03.08
The weather has been totally fantastic this weekend, hard core sunshine. There are just tiny patches of snow left around the house. The Connecticut river is flowing again, but small ponds, and Mascoma lake are still solid (there was still someone ice-fishing on it!).
We decided to try out a trail quest, which is where you have to hunt for a “treasure” which is usually some sort of stamp, so you can at least prove you made it there. We have a whole book of them to work through! We chose one in Enfield, about 15 minutes drive from us. There is a Shaker village there, which I don’t know what is yet, but I’m going to research and find out.
It was a beautiful day:
We had to climb a hill to start with, which Ollie found really tiring in the snow.
But the view was spectacular halfway up:
We found some sort of memorial stone, and took a break:
There were maple sap lines in some of the trees:
David spends qualidy time:
Needless to say, we got lost in some woods, and had to abandon the treasure hunt before the kids dehydrated themselves complaining about their legs and fatigue. We were glad to be able to take a shortcut down the big hill back to the car.
We decided they deserved a chocolate chip pancake each, available at this great diner we had checked out the day before:
I include this picture of the diner, David and the roof of the car because I’ve only just realised we actually drive an SUV. I didn’t know that’s what it was. It’s a Subaru Forester all-wheel-drive. It’s quite old, but has less than 100,000 on the clock. We met someone the other day who had the same car, but it had over 300,000 miles on the clock!
The weekend just got better from there. I got to go for a walk with my friends on the golf course, which is another post, and then our next-door-neighbours had a barbeque, which was just brilliant for me, as I got to sit at their kitchen table for the evening – my favourite place 