Jim and Bonny: Our trip to Connecticut

On April 10th we flew from Seattle to Hartford, CT.

We had a lay over at Dulles in Washington DC and you will not believe who we ran into!

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Jodi and Larry's yard is filled with big boulders. It is a great play ground!

Awesome!!

Easter Sunday

We had gorgeous weather! 20 degrees above normal.

Family photo time!

Pa made a specially requested "Replica Cabinet" for Christen. It holds her tea set that is a replica of Martha Washington's tea set. It is made to match her bedroom set. It was fun to deliver it in person!

After doing some closet organizers the first part of the week.......Thursday we took a trip to Mystic Seaport. It is a preserved whaling village from the 1800's that reminds tourists of Connecticut's maritime heritage. It reminded us of Williamsburg. Several impressive historic ships still float in Mystic's harbor.
We all had a great day there in the sunshine.

There is lots of history in CT. Did you know that CT is the 3rd smallest state and can fit into Alaska 117 times!? The Bradley-Smith Co in New Haven, CT made the worlds first lollipop. It was named after a racehorse named Lolly Pop. These are people that were from CT.........Mark Twain, Charles Henry Dow (Dow Jones), Benedict Arnold, Nathan Hale, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Noah Webster (Webster Dictionary), Eli Whitney. You see Connor just did his Float project on CT so I learned all kinds of things from him!!!

C & C got to run a printing press like they used in the 1800's!
A lot of sayings we use originated here. They had a big case that held the letters that they used to set type. They put the capital letters in the top part of the case and the small letters in the lower part of the case, hence the term upper case and lower case. As you see Connor printing on this machine......some of the impressions did not always come out clear, hence the term good or bad impression. When the letters became mixed up............we get the term out of sorts.