We arrive at James' Uncle's house in the early afternoon and are greeted his cousin Katherine, who is very excited to see us. Just as well because we're very excited to see her too! Chris, Tricia and Katherine have a fantastic house with a lake at the bottom of the garden, very picturesque. There's a new addition since James' last visit... a bee hive! Tricia tells us that there were two but one of the hives decided to move a few weeks ago so the neighbours were treated to the site of a swarm disappearing off down the street. It's great to catch up with the family, but we're sorry for springing the news on Chris that Christine has decided to turn vegetarian and upsetting his dinner plans! Unfortunately Tricia has broken her foot but on the plus side she gets to play on a cool scooter/bike thingy, weeeeee!! We thought it was a bit mean not to let us have a go on it though heehee!
The next day we spend some time relaxing and planning a trip to New York. We're driving so it's tricky to find somewhere we can stay and be able to park the car but we manage to find a place near Jersey so we can get a bus over to Manhattan. It doesn't look like a great place but we're not going to be in much so what's the worst that can happen?! We spend a bit of time having a wander round the town of Hudson which is small but it's got everything we need apart from a beer garden...boooo! The only one is still being built, we keep forgetting it's still Spring which is forgivable considering that it's 90 degrees outside.
We do get the perfect chance to cool down later on when we join Tricia to pick Katherine up from school and we all go for ice cream. We take Tricia's advice and order a Kids Cone each, just as well because they're still huge. Katherine's huge ice cream shake puts us to shame!
After another night of good food and fabulous company we head to bed ready for the next adventure tomorrow - New Jersey!
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