Posts Tagged: Canada

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Wide Open Spaces

I came to Canada prepared for chilly temperatures. The weather where my family lives (in New Brunswick) is sorta like California in the summer – warm to blisteringly hot during the day, but breezy and chilly once the sun drops. So: a perfect opportunity to break out some of the first few fall pieces I’ve...

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Sussex Flea Market

We spent all day yesterday wandering around the enormous Sussex Flea Market (a once-a-year extravaganza with some of the best product - and prices - I've ever seen at a flea market). Flea markets located hundreds of miles from your home can be a little frustrating, because that antique high chair or two-hundred-dollar, pristine-condition farmhouse kitchen table really just can't come home with you...but I made do with lots of other, smaller finds.

Remember the Berenstain Bears?! I loved them - I think I remember having one about a treehouse or something like that. In any case, big stack of books for the baby's library for $4? Yep!

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Well, That Was A Blast

Remember that whole "unlucky traveler" theme?

It's baaaack!

Last night I flew to Canada for a few days to see my family, mostly because I likely won't be able to come back for several months and I wanted to spend some time with my grandmother, and I was sort of nervous about international travel because, you know...eight months pregnant. But I figured, "Eh, the flight's straight out of Newark and what, like, a little over an hour?" And my doctor said as long as I stayed hydrated, a flight that short was no big deal.

Ah, but did it end up being short? Not so much.


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