Trip to Delmar, NY and Williamstown Massachusetts

Flat Juliette arrived in Delmar, NY just in the nick of time to celebrate Christmas with the Metcalf family.  Juliette has had a relaxing week. Today, 12/29/11, Juliette went on a drive to the Clark Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts. This particular museum, nestled in the beautiful Berkshires, featured art work from Rembrandt and Degas. What a great day!

Flat Juliette visits Pennsylvania and New York City

Oh the adventures we have had with Miss Flat Juliette… She arrived at our home on Friday December 18, just in time to welcome Becca home from college for the Christmas break. On Saturday she made the trip to Baltimore to pick Kate up at the airport.

Kate was arriving home from college in Colorado. Flat Juliette was a bit confused because she thought she was going to get to take a trip but she was thrilled to meet Kate.

The next few days we kept her busy helping the girls decorate their Christmas Trees and wrapping presents.

She thought this was great fun! Flat Juliette also helped us make our special Molasses Sugar Cookies. She really enjoyed this activity because she learned a few of the secrets that make these cookies so yummy… (Singing Christmas songs, dancing around, silly jokes, lots of laughter and lots of love!)

On Tuesday Flat Juliette got to join the family on a two day adventure to New York City. The day started with a train ride from our home in Pennsylvania into the city. 

When we arrived we checked into our hotel in Times Square and then set out to explore the sites. Some of the highlights… the Christmas windows at Macy’s Department store, shopping with Becca & Kate (she likes doing girly things), seeing the Empire State Building, the Christmas windows at Lord & Taylor, riding the subway, seeing Times Square and all the lights, the Christmas Tree and skating rink at Rockefeller Center, yummy food and best of all The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.  Whew! Everyone had a wonderful time and enjoyed sharing our Christmas adventure with Flat Juliette.

The next few days we were busy visiting with friends and getting ready for our family Christmas celebration. Flat Juliette enjoyed helping us cook, decorate, and celebrate. We think her favorite was eating all the goodies and yummy stuff but know she also loved helping decorate the table with all the pretty flowers.

Flat Juliette is now ready to continue her adventures… Where will she land next?  

Alaska!

Ms. Juliette arrived up in the Great North in the midst of one of our greatest storms this winter. She stood through the 100+ mile per hour winds for over 12 hours - then her adventures of shoveling her way out to explore the Chugach National Forest started!

She went out on a snowshoe adventure up and down the South Fork of the Eagle River. Traversing the solid ice over the river, back and forth she went for miles until dusk (3:30 pm):

The following day another great windstorm kept Ms. Juliette indoors ... so what did she do? Ms. Juliette helped around the house - baking and decorating gingerbread, chocolate shortbread, and orange-vanilla sugar Christmas cookies:

On Sunday we had a lull in the wind gusts and snow, so she went outside, helped hang Christmas lights on the house and shoveled the driveway so that she could depart the next day! Off on her way to visit the warm islands of Hawai'i.

We enjoyed Ms. Juliette's stay with us up here in Alaska!

Oklahoma!

On Thursday, Dec. 8th , I arrived in Durant, Oklahoma. It was 50-60 degrees, warm compared to Wyoming. On the first day that I arrived, I went to see Southeastern Oklahoma State University - the campus of one thousand magnolias. I had never seen a magnolia tree before! Afterwards, I got to see the world's biggest peanut. It was an exciting and fun-filled day. The next day, I went to help serve dinner for Families Feeding Families. It was nice to help families who needed a warm meal (and I loved the biscuits and gravy). Next, I'm off to Alaska. Don't worry, I packed my warm clothes!