Just
got back from Annual Family Winter Vacation
III. This year we spent a week in New Hampshire,
arriving during a gentle snowfall and departing just
before the severe ice storm hit New England. So, yay!
We rented the "HAMPSHIRE HOUSE, built in the 1930's
by a prominent Washington diplomat as a mountain retreat,
is the essence of comfortable elegance, featuring oak
walls, exposed beams, hardwood floors, 4 fireplaces,
fan -tailed, palladian windows, vaulted wood ceilings,
custom built-ins, portico, and a mahogany deck with
view - all on a 12 acre estate setting with mature trees
and plantings." Again, yay.
It got progressively colder through the week, so we
[regrettably] nixed
some of our usual activities (sleigh ride, skiing).
But we DID do some tubing at Bretton Woods: