Extendedstay Meriden

... bookstore in the tiny but very artsy/intellectual downtown Chester. It's called "The Lace Reader" (the book).

OK, I know this whole trip is called "Heidi's Great Adventure" and I haven't said anything about what that's about...but patience, grasshopper. All will unfold...

Here are a couple of pictures of my family instead :)

We are moving again tomorrow and it will be to Cromwell, CT as we house sit for other traveling friends who will embark on a 2 month sail from CT to FL. Megan lost her new bike today to some ******* who planned in advance to steal the bike hanging "double ...

The first thing i did is go to my best friend Juliana birthday party and i was the only one to come because all other friends ditch her sec for me i was happy i was happy to go because everybody who was suppose to come didn't watch the other blind side and we went out to eat they should come Juliana just turn 15 year old she is so cool and she is my best friend forever.....:D

... there was still some weird comfort level of the "known" versus the unknown. At any rate, I hopped onto the Silver Line bus for $2 and took it to the South Station, where I bought an Amtrak ticket for $44 back to New London. Jan and Jack were there to pick me up, and they kindly took me home to a hot meal, hot shower, and bed.

... dropped him off at the hotel to work on CME while Jan and I went to Marshall's and found me a pair of Under Armour tights to also weat in Boston. We gassed up the car for our trip to New London the next morning, then had an ice cream at the Creamery on Main Street in Old Wethersfield--yumm! Said good-bye to Jack, as he will be in art class when we leave tomorrow, and gave Jan her early birthday gifts ...

... years.

Jan & Jack arrived at 11:00 to take us for a beautiful drive in the country--Litchfield and Kent in western Connecticut. We stopped at Lake Waramaug and had an outdoor lunch at the Hopkins Inn overlooking the water, then drove on to Kent where we walked around town a bit, admiring the huge animal sculptures scattered about. I could have spent a lot more time there! We drove over Bull's Bridge, a ...

Slept in a bit, then packed for the 10-minute trip to the hotel. Jan loaned me a garment bag from her stash--a black and gold plastic thing advertising a shop in Bangkok. They had saved it from a trip they had taken to Thailand over 20 years ago!

We left for the airport before noon and by the time we arrived, Chris was standing on the curb waiting for us in a brisk breeze. He looked so good! We went to Bertucci's Restaurant ...

... the Doce Vida bakery I found the day before, then to the package store where I bought three bottles of the Columbia Crest Cab Reserve that Chris and I like so much. Back home, Jan made a quiche for dinner. I received a text from Mom letting me know that Tammy was awarded the honor of Homecoming Queen for her senior year. I talked to Chris and we ordered Jan a Garmin sat-nav as a birthday present. I am so looking forward to seeing him tomorrow!

... word. This place was over the top. This guy really did have a complex. Everything is oversized and over done. I mean, just look at his living room and dining room:













Anyway, because this building is so old, so unbelievably massive, and has been added on and rearranged, we got lost very easily. We never had a chance to see the Venus De Milo which we really wanted to see. We both honestly ...

... ticos, árabes etc. Como resultado da intensa miscigenação de povos, surgiu uma realidade cultural peculiar, que sintetiza as várias culturas que formaram o país. Embora seja um país lusófono e tenha herdado a cultura dos colonizadores portugueses, a realidade nas várias regiões do Brasil reflete a imensa diversidade étnica-cultural do país. No nordeste, nomeadamente na Bahia e no Maranhão, são comuns as festas, os ritos e os ritmos da tradição africana; no norte do País, o ...