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Second day in Bermuda

“Crazy Roll” in Beluga Bar, Washington Mall, near City Hall in Hamilton.

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Second day in Bermuda: statue in Par-la-Ville Park

We made a trip to Hamilton with Rob, who is joining us on this trip. This dancer statue is in the above named park.

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Bermuda Day 2012

Our 2012 Bermuda trip this year started on Bermuda Day, May 24. Upon arrival, since the humans were watching the parade in Hamilton, there was a delegation of a hen and her chick to welcome us to our cottage style hotel room in Elbow Beach.

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A quick escape from the tension of the first week of classes

School started earlier this week for both of us. M will not teach much more this semester, as she is taking medical leave for eight weeks starting on September 8. She will be having treatments starting then and ending some time in late October that will make her feel intermittently unwell. Therefore, what better day for a sudden winery tour in NJ than today!

We started around 10:15 and went first to Cream Ridge winery. Actually, we first got slightly lost by following some signs instead of Google Maps; the signs were not comprehensive. But this ended up being more fun than otherwise, because we stumbled upon an ice cream place that was open at 11 am!

M at TK Ice Cream in New Jersey

After that we did make our way to the Cream Ridge winery, where we had a tasting and a snack on their nice, shaded porch, on rocking chairs.

M at Cream Ridge winery

The next stop was at the Hopewell Valley Vineyards. There we had another tasting, and got a glass of wine each for lunch, which we had brought with us (already seen in the photo above). They have a nice deck in this winery, overlooking the vines, and we spent an enjoyable couple of hours having lunch, eating and drinking our glasses (I had Chambourcin, M had Chardonnay) and reading books we had brought along. Hey, we made sure to spend some time absorbing the wine so we would be safe drivers on the way back home.

M having lunch in Hopewell Valley Vineyards
Our lunch at Hopewell Valley Vineyards

 

Another view of M on the deck at Hopewell Valley Vineyards, having lunch

 

Wine grapes at Hopewell
M and some vines at Hopewell

 

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Having fun during the blizzard of December 2009

Here we are in Abington on the 19th of December. Click on an image to see a larger version of that image.

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Alverthorpe Park in November 2008

From a walk we took there on November 2.
Alverthorpe Park in November 2008