Monday, April 25, 2010 - Weirs Beach, New Hampshire

As in Pennsylvania, we're staying at a Wyndham time-share property that we're renting for the week. The kids are excited that there are two small (twin?) beds in their room. This means that there's no need for anybody (Caedmon and Mika) to sleep in the same bed with anyone else. This is pretty exciting to them, as Alec determined some time ago that he was too big to sleep in a bed with a brother or sister in it as well. Each night the kids rotate, with somebody in a sleeping bag on the floor between the two beds. I think the sleeping bag is almost more exciting to Caedmon and Mika than their own bed - which makes the rotation issue pretty easy!

We didn't do too much Monday. We drove around to check out laundromats, since there are no washer/dryer facilities either in our unit or on the grounds at all. An inconvenience, but fortunately a rather small one. We found a laundromat a few miles away that looked like it would work.

Afterwards we headed back to the grocery store to check out dinner options. I had drooled a bit over the seafood selection, so we decided to make it a seafood night. Mussels were $2/pound, so I picked up a few pounds of those as well as some cod fillets. Mika and Caedmon had both really enjoyed the mussels they had sampled in Boston, so I thought we were in good shape.

I've cooked mussels and clams before, as well as a variety of other seafood. But something didn't turn out right, and the mussels I steamed were a bit on the runny/squishy side. They were also much larger than the ones you normally get in a restaurant, which was enough for Mika and Caedmon to decide they didn't really like them very much. The cod I cooked up pretty much disintegrated into little pieces, so overall dinner was sort of a bust. I was pretty disappointed. The only good thing was that it hadn't cost us very much, so the loss was more bearable, and I'll give it another shot before we leave New Hampshire.