Winter wonderland

We arrived at Bre's house in the middle of a snowstorm. We met three deer walking down the road towards us at one point. No moose, though.

Bre's house is located in northern New Hampshire, at the edge of 1st Conneticut Lake, or more accurately, in the middle of nowhere. The nearest town (20 mins drive) is Pittsburg, population 1,000. After all the big cities we've been through, it was wonderful to be surrounded by trees again. Especially when they are all covered in snow and icicles.

We woke up at 7am to hear that the unheard of had happened - a foot of snow had fallen so Bre's school was cancelled for the day (the snow isn't unusual, but they never cancel school). So, we had a local guide! She took us up to the Balsams ski resort and snow-shoeing just past Dixville Notch up to a frozen waterfall. Mark and I looked a bit clumsy on our tennis-racket snowshoes but it was fantastic fun!

We spent the rest of the day preparing dinner (4-course!) and watching movies.

School was on the next day (Easter Friday, no holidays over here though!) and Bre had organised for us to come into 6 classes and talk about New Zealand. It was great fun - they asked some really good questions (and some pretty funny ones) and we got to go have lunch in the cafetaria (the cool kids wanted us to sit with them but we were at the teachers table).