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Last few days with the cousins!

Documenting the last few days of our fun week with Dan and Janet's family

Janet, Brad, Seth, Claire and I enjoyed a fun day at the Boda Borg.

It's for groups of 3-5 and you can enter over and over these rooms and try to figure out how to move from room to room and solve the puzzle.  If you move through all rooms of a puzzle you get a special card to say you finished it.  It was tricky, but fun! 

You enter the room and have no instructions, so you just have to guess what you are supposed to do to exit that room.  If you guess correctly, there is a green arrow above the door to allow you to enter the next room.

On our way out of town, we stopped by this monument in Medford that Janice and I found earlier.

Mystic Indian Remains are buried here.  Ancestors of ours!

This delicious Ramen Restaurant was very welcome!

We ate at a park and got fueled up. Mmmmmmm

Saturday was Dan's birthday!

We hiked the Flume Gorge in Franconian Notch

I love this beautiful covered bridge on the path

The Flume

Afterward, we visited the viewing site for the Man of the Mountain

Though the Rocks of his face fell, the monument is filled with photos and a viewing area where you can really get a feel for why is was such an historic part of New Hampshire history.

It was also HOT so we cooled off in the river

The New Hampshire Ski museum was a fun, and free, stop.  

The Basin was also a beautiful and worthwhile stop.

We got fueled up at G.H. Pizza with delicious "grinders" and pizza.

The atmosphere was a bit lacking, but it was great food.

Janet and I stopped by the Concord Capital Building on the way home.  

This was of General John Stark who coined the phrase "Live Free or Die" 

Back at the Ranch we had many hours of fun out in the yard and woods.

Everyone took turns riding bikes around our property, the Beaver Pond area and the high school trails as well.   The electric bike was also fun to cruise around the see the neighborhood with.

We had cake and ice cream....finally fulfilling Cora and Oliver's dream to have carrot cake....something they pestered me the whole week about not making for Easter. 😄

Sunday was church and then all about finishing the Fan Film Star Wars movie the kids wrote and filmed several times during the week

Unfortunately, Dan and Scott went a bit off the main trails and brought two little friends back with them.  Though nothing was imbedded, it got us all itching and scratching and worrying about ticks....ugh....even now!  :)

It was a great week!   We were all tuckered out when it was over. 

Thanks for Visiting the us in the Great State of New Hampshire Dan, Janet and crew!

(My fish filet looked awfully similar to the state of New Hampshire this week....and Vermont if you turn it upside down. hahaha)

PS - one day in the trip I didn't document was Vermont Day.  I stayed back to get Ollie to preschool and the group was able to travel lite in one mini van to Sharon, VT, Joseph Smith's birthplace and Woodstock.  They stopped by Dartmouth and the Shaker Village as well.   Said they had a great day!  I just don't have any great photos to share. :)

We were lucky with great weather and had such a great time finally seeing family after this pandemic year of isolation.  Much love to everyone!  Can't wait to see more family out next month 💛

Maine

Yesterday, we had some more fun with Dan and Janet and co.

visiting Ogonquit and York, Maine

We started off walking "The Marginal Way" in Ogunquit

Ogunquit has a neat feel to it, beautiful coast and 

Perkin's Cove is charming with nice restaurants and shops

Janet got her obligatory Lobster Roll

Not quite as good as the one in Cape Cod a few years ago, but decent.

We went to York as well to view the Nubble Lighthouse.

We refueled with some delicious lunch at The Stonewall Kitchen, a lucky, spontaneous find.

Janet and I spend another hour touring through Portsmouth, NH. 

We had a quick look at the Albacore submarine, watched a short video at the Portsmouth visitors center, walked through Strawberry Banke and to the docks & stopped at a German Bakery.

Glad we still have a few more days of fun and goofing off ahead!  Have a great week!

Paintballing

Yay!  Dan and Janet and Co. are here to play!

We kicked off the trip by showing them all around our property 

and the conservation land behind the house, 

and then ......went paintballing at our very generous bishop's house 

who lives close and has ALL the gear!

Camo, guns, CO2 cartridges and bullets....check!

Ollie and I wore masks and watched them play.

The girls were a little scared of the sounds so they stayed and played together by the house.

Aaron got a bullet to the head (see the paint?)

Timmy and Janet had some fleshwounds as well.

Now Janet can check that off her bucket list of things she has experienced...for better or for worse.  :)

Medical week

We got our first COVID vaccine shots (Pfizer) on Wednesday, only a day after we registered for them.  We felt very lucky to get this the last day of March when we thought it would be May before we could qualify.

Before I got the vaccine, I got poison ivy/oak and have spotty rashes all over my body.  Chest, both arms, both legs, neck, back.....all over.  It's an itchy nightmare, but one I am several times familiar with, so I know it will end eventually. 😕  

Lesson for me, shower immediately after gardening, and be covered head to foot if I do any tidying up in the woods.   Scott never has any issues with this.  I don't think he's sensitive to the oil.

Poor Aaron was inflicted as well this week. 

Ever heard of Juvenile Spring Eruption.  Happens to sunexposed ears on cold but sunny spring days in young boys.  Oddly very specific issue!  Very itchy!

Solution:  Wear sunscreen on your ears during those early sunny spring days.

Hope you all are staying or getting healthy!