Terri found the jar with writing on it in TK Max, it is filled with ice tea, lemon and orange slices.
Looks amazing Terri well done, hope you enjoy them and find them just as useful as I do.
Tonight I had a blog comment from one of my oldest son’s friends called Ben.
Ben has very kindly recommended a blog called ‘What Katie ate’ take a look, it has amazing photography and even more amazing food.
Thanks Ben.
Photograph from Katies blog.
Make yourself a mason jar, fill it with something wonderful to drink, cook yourself an amazing meal from Katie’s blog.
Take a walk in the snow with your camera in hand.
Perfect.
How about buying a small present for your friends that’s not expensive, a Christmas tree decoration is a great choice, plus if you wrap it beautifully it will be twice as nice.
Crate and Barrel is a lovely shop in America, I may have a few tree decorations on my tree from this store!
At around 2pm about 200 small children paraded around the town in their Halloween costumes, the whole small New England town, (village in the U.K) turned out to see children and moms and dads all kitted out in various outfits. It would seem that Halloween in the U.S means you can wear whatever you like, it doesn’t have to be scary.
Then in the late afternoon people started to decorate the fronts of their houses and porches with all sorts of elaborate things. Between the hours of 6pm to 8pm is officially Trick or Treat time, the state police marshall the main road and people come from far and wide, all across the mountains and surrounding areas. Unlike the U.K people live a lot more spread out with sometimes miles inbetween each house, so these events are special.
The town gives bags of sweets to any houses or shops wishing to open their door for trick and treat, we were relieved to hear that, as we reckon about 500 people were in the town, thats a lot of candy if you have to buy it yourself!
Our night photography is not the best but here is a feel of Stowe at Halloween.
Mr B got all dressed up and ready!
Notice the pug dog on the right bottom corner, he came as a hot dog!
Some of the houses went all out, chandeliers and skeletons.
This house must have seen 500 visitors at their door during the course of the evening.
Candy and hot apple cider were flowing well.
This scary cats head moved as you left the house and hissed at you.
Most parents joined in the dressing up in the early afternoon.
The very young joined in as well.
Gravestones appeared on front yards.
Scary stuff at some windows.
Some of the shops joined in which was nice to see.
Early trick or treaters get in first.
This house was incredibly popular, they must have had good treats!
A fire pit was used to toast marsh mallows for passers by at this home.
All in all a good evening was had by young and old alike, everyone was very polite and just had good fun for a couple of hours. Then the state police called it a day and everyone went home.
So there you have it, three weeks in New England, we’ve enjoyed it I hope you have too.
My only disappointment was no snow, we have Hurricane Sandy to thank for that, she pushed cold air away and bought warm air with her to Vermont. Next week Vermont is set to have snow, it will be stunningly beautiful and the towns will fill with everyone wanting to ski, snowboard, or take thousands of photographs!
I was ready, I was so ready!
We have been fortunate enough to only encounter heavy rain and wind from hurricane sandy, today started with torrential rain, then by lunchtime we just had spectacular cloud formation, warm temperatures and the most beautiful rainbow.
We are extremely grateful for not encountering the awful devastation that others have suffered, and hope things will get back to normal quickly for them.
Thought I would post some favourites pictures of mine from the past few weeks, hopefully these are ones you haven’t seen before in previous blogs. Click on the first picture to enlarge, then scroll through. Enjoy.
In Stowe they have kept the old village school house for everyone to see, it is now situated beside the library. It reminds me of Little House on the Prairie!
As our holiday is coming to an end its fair to say we are not going to see any snow, just rain and wind from hurricane Sandy.
Hopefully it will not cause too many problems over the next few days, and flights will be on schedule at the end of this week!
Quite a few people are waiting for snow here, I’ve mentioned before it’s a big skiing destination. This horse is keenly awaiting snow as the money he gets by giving snow rides pays for his food and board!
Lots more picture taking today, so if we are marooned in our hotel for the next few days I have plenty more to show you!
