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March 7th marked the end of Term 3 and the start of the week long March break holidays. Unfortunately it also marked the first (and hopefully the last) accident in our car, even before we left on our holidays. I managed to back the car out of the drive way and straight into the neighbour across the road’s car putting a large dent in the bumper and smashing the light cover. Fortunately the lights still worked and there was NO damage at all to the neighbour’s car!!! Amazing how much damage you can do when you’re going 5 km/h!!!!! (Mar’s blog – in case anyone’s wondering.)
Anyway off we set after school on our scenic trip through Vermont with our final destination- New York City! Unfortunately, once more, there was a severe winter storm warning for the weekend and we encountered snow fall the entire way that evening. Low visibility forced us to travel at 40 km/h a lot of the way which meant our trip to the first hotel we’d booked took 10hrs, arriving at 1 am!!! No drama crossing the Canada- USA borders this time thankfully! Stayed in a great hotel in Burlington, New York State, had a yummy breaky at a café, the kids and Ivan had a swim in the pool while I managed a very quick taste of retail therapy!
No more snow on Saturday, this time it was heavy rain with the occasional ice pellets! We set off through the pretty villages and scenic landscapes of Highway 100 in Vermont. Or that’s what the brochures said. We could hardly see through the foggy windows of the car and through the blinding rain that once again forced us to travel at 40 km/h but we did see a few of the covered bridges that Vermont is famous for. So we headed for a few indoor sights including the famous (at least in Vermont) Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory!! This is a brand of ice cream started up by some hippy, college drop outs from the 60’s. It’s a fun place full of colour and psychedelic patterns and involves a tour of the factory and some free tastings!! Yummy ice cream with lots of unique flavours. Ben and Jerry are now living the good life and are not involved in the factory but their legacy lives on and the company is still involved in charitable and humanitarian works of one kind or another. Makes you feel good about eating ice cream!!!! (http://www.benjerry.com/)
Next stop was a night in a hideous old style ski resort that was way overpriced, dirty and creepy and reinforced Jordan’s fear of wooden hotels! We got out of there as soon as we could in the morning and gave up on the scenic route, instead opting for the main highway, out of Vermont, thru Massachusetts with our final destination Connecticut. Of course Sunday turned out to be a perfectly beautiful, sunny day as we drove along the boring lanes of the main highway! We did manage to stop in Springfield but found no sight of the Simpsons. While there we had a look at the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden. Springfield being the birthplace of Theodor Seuss Geisel, more commonly known as Dr. Seuss. (http://www.catinthehat.org/memorial.htm)
We arrived in New Haven to stay with Kata and Peter (Lenka and Veselko’s daughter and her husband) that evening. Again the wonderful Croatian hospitality was extended to us and we stayed in their apartment (a trendy converted warehouse) and had dinner with them and their 2 children, Anton and Marina.
Anyway off we set after school on our scenic trip through Vermont with our final destination- New York City! Unfortunately, once more, there was a severe winter storm warning for the weekend and we encountered snow fall the entire way that evening. Low visibility forced us to travel at 40 km/h a lot of the way which meant our trip to the first hotel we’d booked took 10hrs, arriving at 1 am!!! No drama crossing the Canada- USA borders this time thankfully! Stayed in a great hotel in Burlington, New York State, had a yummy breaky at a café, the kids and Ivan had a swim in the pool while I managed a very quick taste of retail therapy!
No more snow on Saturday, this time it was heavy rain with the occasional ice pellets! We set off through the pretty villages and scenic landscapes of Highway 100 in Vermont. Or that’s what the brochures said. We could hardly see through the foggy windows of the car and through the blinding rain that once again forced us to travel at 40 km/h but we did see a few of the covered bridges that Vermont is famous for. So we headed for a few indoor sights including the famous (at least in Vermont) Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory!! This is a brand of ice cream started up by some hippy, college drop outs from the 60’s. It’s a fun place full of colour and psychedelic patterns and involves a tour of the factory and some free tastings!! Yummy ice cream with lots of unique flavours. Ben and Jerry are now living the good life and are not involved in the factory but their legacy lives on and the company is still involved in charitable and humanitarian works of one kind or another. Makes you feel good about eating ice cream!!!! (http://www.benjerry.com/)
Next stop was a night in a hideous old style ski resort that was way overpriced, dirty and creepy and reinforced Jordan’s fear of wooden hotels! We got out of there as soon as we could in the morning and gave up on the scenic route, instead opting for the main highway, out of Vermont, thru Massachusetts with our final destination Connecticut. Of course Sunday turned out to be a perfectly beautiful, sunny day as we drove along the boring lanes of the main highway! We did manage to stop in Springfield but found no sight of the Simpsons. While there we had a look at the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden. Springfield being the birthplace of Theodor Seuss Geisel, more commonly known as Dr. Seuss. (http://www.catinthehat.org/memorial.htm)
We arrived in New Haven to stay with Kata and Peter (Lenka and Veselko’s daughter and her husband) that evening. Again the wonderful Croatian hospitality was extended to us and we stayed in their apartment (a trendy converted warehouse) and had dinner with them and their 2 children, Anton and Marina.
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