(But first can I just say 'Ahhhh' to the cup of Tetley tea I am enjoying with a Cadbury Crispy Crunch. WHY WHY WHY do we not get these in the UK? What did Canada do right? And when did I become middle aged and start travelling with my own tea bags????)
Anyway, last week on Wednesday we did in fact drive a couple of hours north up into the White Mountains in New Hamphire,
cunningly disguised as a trip on an old train for the kids but really a chance for Nick and I to hit the outlet malls up there - we did our own version of Supermarket Sweep in the Gap outlet and I think James and Will are now clothed for the foreseeable future. There's no gap in Australia so I figure we just condensed a year's shopping into an hour! 
Then we did go on a train - here's the proof:
And in all the beautiful scenery,
we had to take a picture of this - guess what it is... answers at the end.On Thursday we took the children to the Weathervane for lunch - a Maine institution and unchanged in the almost 20 (!) years since I worked in Maine. Nick had lobster so he could say he did - but reinforced his belief that it's too much hassle for not enough reward!
Though the kids liked the entertainment... Ella especially found it hysterical that Nick was wearing a bib.Thursday night I went out to a bar with my friend Charlene - when I came to the States with a friend in 1990, we headed to Boston to find work but discovered we were about two weeks too late as all the American kids had got out of college and snapped up all the jobs.
So with money running low, we decided to call some contacts in the Bunac book to see if they still needed any staff - and on the end of the phone I got Charlene the Personnel Manager at York's Wild Kingdom Zoo and Amusement Park in Maine. Quicker than you could say 'keep your hands inside the cars' we were on a bus North and off for a summer of work all day, drink all night... So anyway, it was fantastic to see Charlene (who now has a wonderful son Alex) and meet some of her friends at the bar. It was karaoke night and Charlene and Darlene (I kid you not...) were belting out some awesome numbers. Simon Cowell missed a great night!So finally last Friday we went back to the zoo where I worked - there were big animals like lions and tigers, honest, but I seem to have a picture of my children with some baby ducks...
and also here is the parrot that says 'ha ha ha' and 'hello'.
Nick and I were way more excited by this than the children - obviously the TV generation sees nothing impressive in talking animals as they see it all day long! Plus I'm not sure James and Will actually realised the Push Me Pull Me in Dr Doolittle wasn't real, so a talking parrot was way dull. So as Nick and I were cracking up getting the parrot to talk, James and Will were off to see the alligator...And on Saturday morning we left Maine for Boston
- but that, as they say, is another story...And it's a sewage treatment plant, by the way. Just like the one at Seafield - NOT!!
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