Amherst, NH

After Bre finished coaching her softball team on Friday night, we piled into her car for the drive to the family home in Amherst, New Hampshire. They live on the outskirts of the town by a small artificial lake - apparently it's great skating in winter and nice paddling in summer, but we were in an in-between season. It was still good to run around each morning though (at about -7 deg C according to the thermometer, quite bracing in t-shirt and shorts).

The town is small, but spread-out in a way that these New England towns seem to be, with the odd house scattered here and there amongst the trees. There were some weatherboard houses, and some built of brick, but mostly they were clad in some kind of wooden slat which seems to be quite common in this part of the world. And every second or third house had an American flag so there was no chance we'd forget where we were (though we did get lost).

Bre took us out on a drive on Saturday to Kennebunkport, Maine, a place where her grandmother used to have a house. It was a pretty town, with lots of old colonial style houses, including one owned by George Bush (Senior) which we cruised past. We had a chilly picnic down by the sea.


On Easter Sunday we joined in the family festivities - these mostly involved helping to eat the delicious food provided by Bre's mum, Jan, and helping Bre's four year-old nephew on his easter egg hunt around the front lawn :-)

We'll put some photos up when we can, so check back the last couple of posts in a few days and we should have updated them with piccies!