Today, Sunday we had a free day with our hosts to do whatever they or we wanted to do. I was able to borrow a push bike and exercise some of the previous days' lunches and dinners out of the system by going for 2 hour ramble along local roads into Concord. Whilst I had gloves (temp around 10 deg C) i didn't have a beanie and my ears started to freeze. I stopped off to see what I could get at Rite Aid drug store and (Carolyn will love this) they told me they stock those anymore, only during winter. This is from a sales person who could still see a frozen pond and banks of snow from the front door of the shop. It did warm up though and I had a great ride.
Today was a day we stayed with our hosts and we did various activites. My selection was to go to a ballgame. Chris took me to Manchester where the Fishercats played Connecticut. It is still the early part of the season and the weather is not conducive to large crowds but I had a great time eating hotdogs and pretzels and beer and trying to position myself to be where a foul ball might find its way over the fence - close but no cigar!!
We then met up at New London Rotary Club for a potluck dinner and an introduction of the team. New London club was not given an opportunity to host this year and wanted to do something for the inbound team from Australia. In fact they got together and utilised the free night available in our calendar to put on a special evening.
It was great food (bring a plate), great reception and we were asked to introduce ourselves and give a small impromptu talk. We had some brochures and map of Australia with us and each of us went through a few minutes of our personal background and vocations. It was a wonderful experience to be so well received and field lots of questions.
New London is the host club of Kate Dunlop from the D7870 team and we met Kate tonight as she arrived home from Australia last Friday.
More from the team about the weekend in the mountains soon.
Cheers to all
David
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Hello all! Great to see you last night in New London, and to catch up on your adventures via the blog. Glad things are going well ... When you are at the Henniker club tonight (Mon.), give a special hello to Janice McElroy, she works upstairs in my building and really encouraged me to pursue my own GSE opportunity. See you when I see you - Kate
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