Starting our Christmas Celebrations

This past weekend Tim, Sarah, my Mom and I went to Burlington, VT to see my Aunt Phyllis and cousin Deborah and her husband Bruce. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to meet my amazing Aunt, she is 88 years old (actually my great Aunt) and, um, amazing.

She really doesn't like to have her photo taken though. So, I didn't get any of her while we were there, but here is a photo of Sarah and me with Aunt Phyllis at our cousing Paul's wedding this past September.



And, to continue with visuals for you. I also did not get a photo of Deborah and Bruce, but here they are from same said wedding.



We drove my wonderful new car (new to me, old to the rest of the world, whatever) to Burlington. That was great and it drives so nicely. Way better than trying to fit Mom, Tim and Sarah all on the handlebars of my bike!
We had a lovely lunch with the VT crew.

Every year we travel to Burlington to see them sometime around this time of year. This year we decided to make a bit more of an adventure out of it and booked a hotel room for the night. We spent the evening wandering around the streets of Burlington, specifically Church Street which is a great pedestrian only street lined with fun shops and restaurants and such. This, I did get photos of...



One photo in each direction even.



For anyone traveling to Burlington in the near future, there is an excellent Sushi restaurant right on Church Street that we went to. Vermont, it isn't all about cows and Ben and Jerry's...they have GREAT sushi! Who knew?!!?