Well today is our last full day of our holiday. I thought we would be sad but we are all looking forward to coming home to warm weather. The day started pretty normally and I was waiting on the kids to get showered. Looked cold and windy but nothing too exciting. Within 10 minutes the town was white. A sudden snow storm covered everything, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. It was so thick that I thought we might be stranded for th...

Well started with another sleep in, getting used to it now. It was a cold night, we had the heater up high but there was still a sheet of ice on the inside of our balcony door. We headed off to old mystic village. It is like an old fashioned town with boutique stores. Like yesterday we were the only people there but it was good to look around even of it is icy cold. At lunchtime we headed to mystic pizza. Warm and friendly inside and they play the movie while y...

Well I wish I could say it was a hectic day but it was boring and relaxing. We slept in, had breakfast and forced ourselves to go outside in the cold for a while. It is lightly snowing on and off but very cold. So we drove our salt covered car into downtown mystic. It is so quiet as this is off season so it feels like we are the only tourists here. We took the boys into the army and navy supply shop and the owner kept us talking for a weirdly long time as clear...

Well I woke up without brain damage from my fall, that is a bonus. We had a rather questionable breakfast from our French hosts and got into the car as I wanted to get over the border. So with me telling Paul to be careful on the road the whole way we finally got to the border in Montreal, via duty free of course :) Finally after being questioned we were allowed to cross, I couldn't be happier. Though was not expecting snow and ice for our whole 6 hr drive. We ...