Badger On Tour

MAINE

THANKSGIVING!!! THANKSGIVING!!! THANKSGIVING!!!

Weeks of anticipation had been building for my first ever Thanksgiving experience. The setting was perfect with snowy woods, a huge kitchen perfect for family cooking and many pets to take on long walks. 

It was so nice to spend time with Pat, Kelly, Jon, Bill & Jay oh and the pets Marley, Casey & Sandy. On thanksgiving day we all had our cooking tasks and over several hours the might meal was made. We had the most amazing shrimp cocktail to start followed by the turkey roast and finished off with pumpkin pie. DELICIOUS! We had some excellent wine from Cupcake Vineyards and finished the day with a trip to the movies. 

My favourite part of the days around thanksgiving were the multitude of board and card games played... Cards Against Humanity, The Settlers of Catan, Rumy, Gin Rumy all kinds of rumy! So happy about all of these!

Second to my love of playing games is my love of dance, although i haven't been to a dance class in a while i figured my knowledge was still there so i was super happy to go swing dancing with Pat one evening. It was AMAZING! I did three classes back to back taking me to an ok understanding of the steps... all of which disappeared when it came to the social dance so i just threw all my effort into spinning. So much fun.

Maine is such a beautiful state and the drives we took were amazing, i also greatly enjoyed a trip to a state park to walk casey and they had the most amazing rocks including some volcanic rock that had been pushed up in a perfectly straight line through the existing rock. And the food was amazing, on top of the Thanksgiving feast i enjoyed some great beer, lobster mac & cheese, the best sushi i have eaten in a while and bacon dusted fries. 

After a week of enjoying all of Maine's offerings Jon & i headed back to Vermont for Kelly's belated birthday party. It was a great drive and we spent a lot of time talking about music and the joy of the mini cake; a common interest that we discovered in a tine tea shop one afternoon. We also squeezed in half of a college ice hockey game which was fast and cold... being in an ice hockey team would literally be my worst nightmare but it was fun to watch.

Thank you so much Phillips family for a truly brilliant time.