Another idyll in NH
Aug. 20th, 2008 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bex77My office went on an outing today!
We closed the office at 1:30 pm and headed North to the wilds of Exeter, NH, just over an hour from Cambridge. I ferried six of my co-workers in my trusty mini-van. We got there and back easily, despite getting lost in scenic Amesbury on the way and dealing with a drunk colleague on the way back!
One of our senior staff has an elegant Colonial home with an incredible garden. The plantings are patterned after the gardens in England of Eleanor of Aquitaine! She had invited us to have dinner in her garden.
The weather was perfect - sunny and cool. We ate lobster and sushi, with potluck salads and desserts. I showed the students from the South how to shell a lobster, while enjoying the sweetness of my own. The fresh blueberries and raspberries were the best I've had in ages. There was a raspberry apple pie, and nanaimo bars. I managed to sit at the good end of the table, away from the bigwigs, with the students and staff who know how to relax in the idyllic environs of a summer twilight under the trees.
We helped clean up, then packed the gang back into the mini-van, and got out of NH before dark, tired, full and happy.
We closed the office at 1:30 pm and headed North to the wilds of Exeter, NH, just over an hour from Cambridge. I ferried six of my co-workers in my trusty mini-van. We got there and back easily, despite getting lost in scenic Amesbury on the way and dealing with a drunk colleague on the way back!
One of our senior staff has an elegant Colonial home with an incredible garden. The plantings are patterned after the gardens in England of Eleanor of Aquitaine! She had invited us to have dinner in her garden.
The weather was perfect - sunny and cool. We ate lobster and sushi, with potluck salads and desserts. I showed the students from the South how to shell a lobster, while enjoying the sweetness of my own. The fresh blueberries and raspberries were the best I've had in ages. There was a raspberry apple pie, and nanaimo bars. I managed to sit at the good end of the table, away from the bigwigs, with the students and staff who know how to relax in the idyllic environs of a summer twilight under the trees.
We helped clean up, then packed the gang back into the mini-van, and got out of NH before dark, tired, full and happy.
