It had been FOUR YEARS since we had been back to NH, the last time being after CP's grandmother died. I wasn't even pregnant with Wes yet. It was a long overdue trip, although it was a bit annoying for CP to figure out how to jump between his divorced parents while also seeing friends and getting out to do fun things.
We flew in Thursday into Boston, grabbed our rental car and headed up to NH. I tried to tell the kids about all of the cool things in NH, including the Old Man in the Mountain (RIP). The ENTIRE TRIP, despite both me and CP telling Wes over and over that the OMitM was not a real man, but what looked like the face of a man in the side of a mountain, Wes kept asking about "the man." He was very worried about the man. (*sigh*)
Friday we got to hang out with CP's childhood friends and although it had been a while since we have seen them, it was great to see how big some of their kids had gotten and to hang out with them. We told Izzy that we were going to Dennis' house and she said "Why are we going to Dr. Bob's house?" She thought that we were going to her dentist's house. Silly girl. That night we hung out with CP's aunt and uncle and Wes spiked a 102.5 fever while CP was with him at urgent care.
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| Wes knocked out on the couch with a fever |
Amazingly enough, Wes rallied and despite getting a later start than we had planned for, we headed up with CP's mom to hike Franconia Notch State Park (Flume). We told Wes that if he was able to hike the entire two miles by himself without anyone carrying him he would get ice cream before lunch. Amazingly enough, he did it all by himself and enjoyed his ice cream.
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| Starting the hike |
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| Celebrating the fact they both made it to the top by themselves! |
We were super close to where we got married so after lunch, we stopped by the Inn and took some pictures since it is almost our 10 year anniversary! We were going for a nice picture of the four of us in front of the Inn's sign when the kids decided to drop on their knees and pretend they were tigers. We just had to laugh.
The next day we did a 10 mile canoe trip down a local river. CP and I had Wes in our canoe while Izzy was in a canoe with my MIL and her husband.
They fought almost the entire time and I felt bad for Izzy because she seemed pretty bored. He was being pretty condescending towards my MIL and I wasn't too excited for Izzy to hear that and to think that was okay. We all survived but we were pretty happy to get out of those canoes. Afterwards we took Izzy on a tour of CP's childhood schools so that Wes could get a car nap.
I was supposed to leave that night for Chicago but thunderstorms cancelled my flights so I ended up staying in the hotel to work all day while CP and the kids went to the beach. I had a tremendously hard time getting out of NH the following night and barely made my connecting flight (which was also delayed due to bad weather/lightning) and didn't get home until after 2:30am. CP and the kids came home that night and Izzy had her first day of Kindergarten the next day.
After our trip I mentioned to CP that it can't be another four years before we go out to NH. His parents are getting older and it's a good chance to take a fun vacation and get out to the mountains.
