South Royalton, Vermont

Friday morning we got back together with Brian and Nicole and transfered their stuff from the Pod (That was shipped from Vegas) to a U-Haul then we took off for Vermont we made a couple of stops at furniture stores, they needed some additional furniture.
South Royalton thier new home is a small Village and I mean small, the first photo is of the town square facing a church all the little towns we stopped had these little white chapels in the town square it was very picturesque, the 2nd photo is Brian, Nicole and Charlie on line in the town square, the whole town square has Wi-fi! How cool is that. The whole area is beautiful lots of hills and wild flowers, reminded me a lot of home, (England)

This is a photo taken at a place called Tunbridge, I couldent resist taking this picture it's just a few minutes down the road from Brian and Nicoles, Tunbridge has a lot of memories for me, when I was growing up in England my maternal grandparents lived at a place called Robertsbridge a very small rural village I loved it there, most of the time we would ride the train down to Robertsbridge and of course my question was always "how much longer to we get there?" One of the last train stations we stopped at before arriving at Robertsbridge was Tunbridge and I knew when we pulled into that train Station it was not very long to we arrived at Grandma's and Grandpa's so you see why I had to take this picture.

Our Trip to Vermont

By 9:00am Thursday morning we were on our way to Vermont with an over night stop at Nicole's sister's house just outside of Boston, 2 cars, Brian and Nicole's and Ours, thank goodness for cell phone's and GPS. Here's Brian, Nicole with Buddy and Bandit waiting to get on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry. No that's not the real ferry just a replica!

Here's a shot that Brian took of us loading on to the ferry, they were right behind us, it was a 90 minute crossing I think?? and got a little choppy midway across. But it was a beautiful day blue skies and low humidity.
Bandit enjoying the wind in his hair um, ears. It was a good start to what turned out to be long day! Oh almost forgot we were entertained by Dolphins during the ferry crossing. All except for Charlie who disappeared below deck for a quick nap.

The 10 hour drive ended up taking about 12 hours and we got seperated in New York City of all places, Brian's GPS rerouted him through Brooklyn and we managed to stay on the Interstate, but even with Brian's little detour they still managed to arrive a head of us in fact Charlie and I ended up checking into a hotel about 2 hours away from Boston, we were pooped, not as young as we used to be that's for sure!

Brian & Nicole

Brian, Nicole, Buddy & Bandit arrived on Monday August 11, it was so exciting to have them here, we were out walking Fitch when they pulled up the driveway.
Buddy, Bandit and Fitch soon made friends as you can see here Jordan has a captive audience!

On Tuesday night everyone joined us for dinner and later a swim in the pool even the dogs got wet. Here's Bandit and Brian giving a demo of Bandit's swimming skills.............

Wednesday was Grandma's Funeral and then Thursday it was time to load up the car for the first leg of our trip to Vermont

Grandmas Funeral

Grandmas Funeral service was held at H.D. Oliver Funeral Home in Norfolk, August 13. After the funeral we all went to Sandy's restaurant, Capt. Grooveys on Shore Drive. This first photo is of Charlie with some old school friends that came to the funeral.
This is most of Grandmas living children and their children and grandchildren

In Memory of Mary Elizabeth Landing Anderson

This photo is of Mary with her 3 oldest children, Billy on the right, Dottie and Charlie it was taken at Norfolk City Park. Sorry I posted this one twice by mistake......


I think the following is one of my favourite photos of Mary, it was taken at Chris and Kandices wedding, March 2000. Mary with two of her children, Charlie and Sandy

Sadly Grandma Anderson passed away on 10 Aug 2008, she would have been 86 on Sept 24. She had not been well for some time and so her passing while a loss for her family was a great blessing for her. Mary had five children, Billy, Dottie, Charlie, Randy and Sandy.

So Much to Blog and so Little Time

I am way, way behind with my Blog but then we have had a lot going on in the last two weeks, and will try to catch up in the next few day's here is a partial list of whats been going on at the Anderson's-
1. Sadly Grandma Anderson passed away, more on that later.
2. Brian and Nicole arrived here with Buddy & Bandit.
3. We all drove to Vermont.
4. Our travels to Vermont
5. Vermont
6. Charlie and my trip back to Virginia
(I am sure I have left something out? Oh, yes we are enlarging our breakfast nook off of the kitchen and closing in our sun room, what a mess!)
More Later........

Happy Birthday Jordan

Yesterday was Jordans 11th Birthday, it just does not seem possible, where as the time gone? She had a good birthday party with friends, they swam in the pool, the usual Pizza, Cake & Ice cream. And a sleepover.
Happy Birthday Jordan!

Rachel taking the plunge.