We've been here for four days now and it's all been good. Lots of good food and day trips. Yesterday we took a rise up to a garden, but it was too windy so we took a road trip to see a super cute town called Rothbury. We did a little grocery shopping and oohed and aahed over the English-ness of everything. It's like my friend Naoki who visited a few weeks ago, he kept saying everything looked so New England. Well, when you are in the place - it really what it looks like. We had lunch at a place called Goats on the Roof, which has a green roof and a staircase for the goats to get up and have a snack. While we were there, two adult goats and one baby where up there napping and noshing.
The day before we went to Aydon's castle, which was inhabited until 1966. Hard to believe, it was incredibly cold and we all wondered where the bathroom might have been. It was a gorgeous day and we went to my sister's friend's cafe called Cafe Vallum. It was delicious and we had luxurious ice cream made from the milk of the cows that live there.
Seeing a pattern? Road trip to someplace beautiful with a delicious meal someplace cool. Today we went to Mary's sister-in-law's house (which looked like a magazine- really) and had a great meal with a lot of interesting, warm people.
Cousins Alex and Anna have been super nice and patient with Bennett even tho this is there week to study for exams.
Next we will go to the Nations Glass Centre in Sunderland. I'll let you know how it is.
The only thing that has been a little weird is the elephant in the room hasn't really been addressed, except by people who Mary knows who are medical professionals. Everyone knows, who knows how to bring it up, I don't know. Maybe it's just enough to get a break from having to tell people and to just be. Just be bald, and everyone pretends that it's not something to be notices. And maybe it's not, maybe it's just me who is conscious of it.
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