The JB

What is the JB? I am glad you asked!! It is a Tortilla with 2 fried eggs, hash brown pieces, bacon, tomato ketchup, American cheese, all wrapped and grilled. Pictured above is Franz's Food in Durham, NH – home of the JB. New England is full of small businesses – it is great to be able to support the local community!

Partying UNH Style!

Going to a college party with red cups has long been a dream of mine. Add in drinking games and I am sweet! Had an incredible night! Love experiencing everything college life in America has to offer!

UNH Campus Tour

With some time to kill before the night started, Tahlor gave me a quick tour of the campus. A lot more hills than Purdue, it was nice to walk around the windy streets surrounded by beautiful old buildings! Naturally, the only ugly building on campus is the management building, poor Tahlor!

Community Dinner

Durham, HN is such a caring and close nit community - every month they have a free community dinner. Nearly all the produce was grown by a UNH community garden and the rest all locally grown! We had several different types of bread, a Vegetarian Entree (Australia: Main course) and vegan red velvet cake for dessert (not as good as Amies, of course :) It was a heart warming atmosphere!

New England Aquarium

My only request to Tahlor was that we get to go to the New England Aquarium. It was amazing! We saw some 'wicked cool' (it's a New England saying ) penguins, which happen to be Tahlor's favourite animal! I also saw some fellow Australians – the Australian seahorse! The New England Aquarium is one of the largest in the United States - over 20,000 animals!

The Pedicab tour of Boston

I am not going to lie – there were moments were I thought I was going
to die. Fighting Boston traffic in on a pedicab isn't exactly the
safest way to get around! But it was lots of fun at the same time! The
only other time I had been on a pedicab is in China and I really
enjoyed it both times :)

Mike’s Pastry’s

After a short walk over to the Italian district and we arrived in
heaven. This place was so busy, we waited for about 10 minutes inline
before even getting served! After our big lunch Tahlor and I decided
to split something and she left the decision totally up to me. It came
down to my favourite dessert ever, a profiterole, or something I can't
ever remember eating, a Cannoli. I decided on an Italian Yellow Cream
Cannoli. To say it was delicious would be the understatement of the
year!

The Union Oyster House – America’s Oldest Restaurant

First stop on my tour of Boston, the Union Oyster House for some
classic New England clam chowder. Now for those you who know me well,
you would know that I have an agreement with creatures that live in
the sea – when I am in their territory, they don't eat me and when
they are in mine, I don't eat them. But I made an exception and I had
some with crackers (Tahlor's recommendation) and I absolutely loved
it. I also had cornbread for the first time, which tastes a bit like a
scone. I can say for sure that I will be digging out a recipe when I
get home and making both for anyone who is interested!

The unexpected tour of Washington DC

As I flew into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on my way to
New England I saw a dome like the Capitol Building. I thought to
myself "No, that can't be THE Capitol building" – I almost completely
dismissed it. Then as we continue to descend, the Washington Monument
came into view. I couldn't believe it. It was amazing! The airport
would only be a couple of kilometres away from the National Mall.
Pictured above is the view I got as we departed DCA bound for
Manchester, NH. The tall concrete structure is the 'Washington
Monument', the dome building at the end of the long grass strip is the
'Capitol Building' and the grass strip in between is known as the
'National Mall'.

Text BOMBED!

So we are sitting at Windsor eating dinner and Jordyn and Kimberly
start paying out on how they text bombed Cassie last night!! Having no
idea of what text bombing is, I asked. This resulted in a
demonstration - me being the victim. I received 202 messages over a 15
minute period from the evil three! They did a good job... I wonder
when I will get revenge launching my own text bomb? Watch this space.