Goodbye USA

The last days in Vermont were full of.......SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Visiting my Dad's sister Becky in her historic former stage-coach inn home in Colchester, Vermont

She has a turkey decoy in her garden
And a fox man in front of the inn's former well
The greatest wrap around porch known to man
The day before leaving Vermont, a visit from Leann, "Uncle" Craig's sister
Peter & Jeanne

Running around in the sun

Picking up cherries
Cole and Wes bringing in the sap buckets as the season is over and the sap is 'turning'
Cleaning the buckets before storing them for another year

Last evening in Vermont - dinner on the porch with Cole
Saying goodbye to our favorite cousins before hitting the road
In New Hampshire, visiting my college friend Mary at her parents' and meeting her kids! Here is Noah and Estelle in the 80 degree weather!
Estelle and Miranda get rockin'. (sorry couldn't resist the pun)
Last night, Aunt Laura arrives at Aunt Lisa's house and Estelle gets a fun bath time

Today in the incredible sun and warmth, Estelle explores around Lisa and Dan's house
Walking outside with Grammie
Flanked by aunties
An American mailbox! The lower box is for a newspaper (this is for Papa in France, to understand)
Estelle in Lisa's childhood wooden rocker which dates to 1955 or so

A visit from the REAL Estelle
Yours truly basking in Lisa's "retirement rocker" in juxtaposition to her little wooden rocker
Joan arrives from Vermont for one last hurrah and they dive into some books
The last patch of snow quickly disappearing
Mom and Estelle

The 4 sisters hit the road on a bike ride. Lisa was far ahead in the shot.... Incidentally, our other 2 sisters, the twins Mary and Martha, were in Vermont sitting watch over Mary's son Jesse, 25 years old, who had been rushed to the emergency room in the night with his APPENDIX! He went under the knife this morning and all is well. When he woke up, he said to Mary "Where is my Madeline doll?"
On the foundation of a burned out house, climbing about the chimney ruins. Laura pretends to be a-cookin'
Estelle gleefully dashes away from Uncle Dan
Is there any other way to end a trip, but with a real American dessert? Strawberry shortcake for Lisa's 50-something birthday. Delicacy prepared by cousin Emily who is also here visiting from NYC.