Finally Thawed Out from the Freezing Weather

I have been back 3 days and I have finally gotten the cold out of my bones, We went to the outback of Deep Pennsylvania, it was a very pretty place, too many people of course, and the weather was perfect for the little girl. She had set her sights on snow and unseasonaly it was delivered on time, we were told it never really snows until Jan of Feb, but we got it late December. The little girls were playing out in it for two hours until the little girl looked at me with a pained expression and said "my hands are hurting and cold", she had never realised that snow was very cold, it is out of her experience, she never went in the snow to play again, i thing she had her full life's worth of snow, it was just friggin cold all the time, only 17 F one day, that isn't funny.

Snow time In Pennsylvania



Great Wolf Resort, A swimming resort in the snowy depths of winter, they are mad




We barely went out, only to go shopping in Walmart, we actually went shopping in Walmart about 6 times, I love walmart, every time you go shopping there is something else to see and buy. I bought tons of things, mostly electronic things, but some things for the little girl like nice clothes which are not available in Costa Rica, Walmart was heaven sent, he must have been Jesus in disguise. We had a nice christmas and had a few latin folks around for New Years Eve, we all drank a few beers and but it was really just too cold to do much else and the threat of more snow which it did do a few times stopped me from renting a car while i was there, we went to a local casino for a christmas beer, it was a huge impressive place and was full of crazy old ladies throwing money into these machines, also lots of older men, it was a sad sight to see all these lonely people with nothing better to do than sit in front of a machine that was taking there money, sounds a bit like me in front of the PC. We also went to a holiday resort, it seemed a bit strange to go to an indoor resort with a giant swimming pool with wave machine and lots of water slides, we were all dressed up in winter gear and looking at folks in swimming costumes through the viewing window, so we went to dunkin donuts to pig out on a big box of cream filled donuts, more healthy than swimming any day.



On our last day we went to the New Jersey Science Museum for Children, it was an entertaining place and we got a 3D film included, i think it is the first time i did the 3D film and it was a very interesting experience, the images really did look they were coming out of the screen, It was OK but not really worth the long drive and expensive entrance fee, I really wanted to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art but the kids would have hated it. Now I am back home and I can say it was a great trip but i really don't like the cold weather, and here in Costa Rica the sun is shining and the air is warm and i don't have to wear anything warm at all. So next year it is going to be a warm place for the christmas break, maybe Madagascar

Science Museum



New York