Trip to New Hampshire

It was great to visit the Dodges. They are good hosts. Sheryl took some days off work to go sightseeing with us. The first day she took us to Concord, Massachusetts to see the Orchard House where Louisa May Alcott lived and where "Little Women" is set. We had an excellent tour guide. I hadn't realized Louisa became famous and wealthy with her books during her lifetime.

Then we walked around Walden Pond and saw where Thoreau's hut had once stood. It was a very peaceful place.

We also went to the Concord museum and had lunch there on a park bench.

On Friday Jonathan took the day off and we went to Derry, New Hampshire. We saw the Frost farm where Robert Frost lived for a time. The guide could quote his poetry as he took us from room to room. Robert Frost also became famous during his lifetime and won Pulitzer prizes for his poetry.

This was the Frosts' bathroom with a 2-seater, no less!

We had lunch at a diner and then went to the American Stonehenge. This is an archealogical ruin built thousands of years ago with astronomical markers.

On Saturday we drove up to North Berwick, Maine and saw a wooded property they are thinking of purchasing as a getaway place. It was thickly wooded and surrounded by a rock wall.

There was once a cabin here and there are a few graves from the 1800's

Then we drove to the coast, only 5 miles away. It was cold and windy as we walked along the shoreline in Ogunquit. Those New Englanders are hardy people!

Saturday night the sister missionaries dropped in and it was fun to eat supper and get acquainted with them. The Dodges are now in a new ward because of a realignment --the Merrimack Ward--so going to church with them on Sunday was a real experience. The people we met were really nice. Sheryl led the singing in a baptism right after church which was very well attended.

On Monday we went to Auburn, New Hampshire to see Massabesic Lake. I have to mention the state things are in because everything is so close together you can get to the next state easily.

An island in Massabesic Lake

There was also visiting time and playing games and eating lots of good food!

Sheryl and Curtis

Grandpa and Trevor