We planned to go on the Monday as we had a busy weekend with plans to help with the church clean up on Sunday with a taco party payoff. However with the rain it was cancelled. So we just had a nice lazy day at home.
Monday morning after dropping the bigs at school Kate, Wesley, and I pointed Vanna south for New Hampshire. Our first stop was at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye just south of Portsmouth. When we got to the lot we watched three school buses unload and debated not going in, however we had driven all this way and said let's just do it. It's good we did as the school kids had projects they were doing outside and didn't spend much time inside at all.
I had found this place on the internet, http://www.seacoastsciencecenter.org/, and it looked cool. They talked about exhibits including a touch tank and fish tanks. Wesley really liked the fish tanks section, they had step stools all around so he could climb up on them for a better view. However the other exhibits and the touch tanks were sorta ho-hum.
Incidentally, last year on Mother's Day it rained and this year it rained on and off and was dreary and overcast for most of the day. Here's hoping next year it's clear and sunny.
Next stop was Conner Bottling Work's in Newfields. They produce and make 27 flavors of glass bottled soda, their brand is Squamscot, since 1863. I had no idea what to expect as the website just says, stop in and say hi. So I did.
Walking through the front door the bottling machine is right there, they were bottling Maple Cream when I got there. There was just one guy working, friendly as can be, he gave me one fresh off the line. It was good, tasted like Maple cream soda, and I don't like cream soda. I was also surprised that the soda is bottled ice cold.
He was fixing to close up for lunch but he turned the machine on for me and ran a dozen through so I could see the process. You can buy any of their soda for $1 a bottle, or a six pack for $5 and a case of twenty four for $17. I bought a sixer, they make their diet soda with splenda and pure cane sugar for the regular.
Kate and Wesley stayed in the van as the boy was napping. We drove to Dover for lunch at La Festa Pizza where you can buy pizza by the giant slice and they have some very unique toppings. The pizza is cooked and then re-heated when you order so it only takes a few moments. They also have these amazing garlic knots that you so flipping good!
Dining in Kate had two slices of buffalo chicken, I had a pepperoni and buffalo chicken, Wesley a half of cheese slice and we had a couple knots. We got slices to go for dinner, another buffalo chicken, pepperoni, a pepperoni & sausage, and something called and R2B2, the R2 is roni & ricotta the B2 is bacon & BBQ sauce and of course a couple knots.
The final stop was at Duston's Baker for desert, a place we found last year.
We'll got back next year and a trip to La Festa is now officially Kate's mother's day destination.
Later Readers!
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