Jay Village Inn

... br>Et avant qu'il ne se remette à pleuvoir, on a eu le temps de faire la mini rando du parc... C'était sympa.
Et puis vers 16h, il commence a pleuvoir, on reprend la route, et là, juste après un virage, qu'est-ce qu'on voit? Non, pas un ours, je vous l'ai deja faite!!! Un bambi!!! Il attendait sagement au passage piéton pour traverser, sa maman lui a bien appris! Et comme un chevreuil ...

... made in running the farm, but tried to keep that to myself during my stay there and will try to not let that color my current description of the farm too much. So when I say that she would subtly guilt-trip me about sleeping in the trailer instead of out in the springtime-in-Vermont-temperature field, or that she insisted that there were far too many details of farmwork to actually explain what work was expected of us ("we would figure it out") but still ...

... s first time out so she was a little nervous, ..but soon she was like a pro. The apres-ski was the best part though,

Ouhlala!!!! ça fait longtemps qu'on n'a pas mis le blog à jour! Alors voici vite fait, quelques photos d'une rando en raquettes faite au Mont Orford. C'était super agréable car il faisait beau (mais froid), et on a bien aimé ça la rando en raquettes!

There are many surprises in store. The weather cleared up, super bonfire, the Ben & Jerry's truck, view to the mountain clears and fireworks and hot apple cider. The welcome party is very welcoming. My only wish is I had more time to talk with everyone. Roy and I divide and conquer. I still miss talking to everyone. :)

Rehearsal dinner is a bit rainy but the heater in the tent works just fine. I'm rushing to enter all these plots and will enter more later. Everything I entered earlier in the week did not save! We are going to spend 3 days at our next stop. I'm hoping for an opportunity to really enter in the blog and some photos!

... the one hour ferry ride across the huge Lake Champlain to New York State. We got back to Montreal in time to do a couple of things we missed; go to a son et lumière inside the very impressive Notre Dame Basilica and to a display of lanterns and illuminated figures at in the Chinese section of the Botanical Gardens. On this evening it stayed remarkably warm - balmy almost. The next morning we drove to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport and took off for Minnesota.

Woke up at a reasonable hour for a Brit (ie middle of the night), accidently woke Mrs M up, despite my spectre like movements around the bedroom. Went and read in the lounge. When I got back Mrs M was up and ready for breakfast; a carbohydrate crammed buffet again with great coffee. A lovely sunny start and on the road to Woodstock (don't think it was the famous one) while cursing technology in general and the stupid, stupid ...

Start the week with a view of the beautiful changing leaves and the lovely mountain. This is going to be a GOOD week. My cousin Catina and her kids came to help with the wedding week. What a blessing that was! Mom is so overjoyed with anticipation of the week it's hard to keep her focused on one task. She has the brilliant idea of doing the letters for our sign with her cricket. It takes some time but turns out WONDERFUL!

... traffic woes. Trying to find our campsite gave Rajiv an opportunity to practise his French and it also put us in little towns that we otherwise might have missed, like the town of Eastman. We did not take too many pictures. I think we are still in wind-down mode and trying to figure out a routine for each day. We have very quickly come to realize ...