Sunday, December 09, 2007

At the Village

Today was our trek to Santa's Village. And what a trek it is, over two hours' drive to Jefferson, New Hampshire, out in the middle of nowhere, which leaves us with two questions: (1) why would anyone put a theme park far away from any big city, and (2) why would anyone travel so far out of their way to visit such a place? The answers are: (1) no one seems to have any notion, and (2) because the children love it.

And love it they do. Favorite parts? Bumper cars, just like the kind they used to have on all the cool boardwalk arcades (Coney Island, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, etc.). Cars the kids can drive themselves, a lot like Disney's Autopia, but with a better, smoother guidance system, and quaint "Tin Lizzle" style cars. And the spinning drums, which are just like the teacups at Disneyland, but with drums as befits the Christmas theme.

It's colder in Jefferson than in New Durham this time of the year, which caught us by surprise last year. But we were better prepared, as Karen noticed whem she mentioned that we only got hot chocolate twice this year, whereas last year we were guzzling it the whole day to keep warm.

The Web site has learned a couple of new tricks. The first is that the front page now displays the first paragraph of my most recent blog entry. If I can get Karen and Thomas to update their blogs, I'll add their first pragraphs as well.

The front page also now has a "Latest Picture" feature, which displays a different picture based on the day of the week. As long as I put in seven pictures once a week, the picture will be different every day. Dont worry if you miss one; it will probably show up in a gallery at some point.

The last feature I've added so far is a picture representing the current state of our new house. This feature will probably be around for awhile, since the house will be a work in prgress for a long time to come. And once it is finished, we will probably be on to some other project to take its place.

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