I’d been back to MA since we moved, but not Pam and the kids, so we planned on spending a bit of time down memory lane. Here we are in front of Bartlett Hall, the home of the philosophy department.
L and K couldn’t quite get enough of our hotel room. It was only after they had bounced off the walls (and beds) for a while that we put two and two together: they’ve never (at least in their memories) spent a night in a hotel room.
The next morning we decided to do breakfast at one of our favourite breakfast/brunch places in Hadley: the Esselon Cafe. The have excellent coffee and tea and some very good breakfast menu options. The fact that they have a nice patio doesn’t hurt either. After breakfast, we headed to the Chesterfield Gorge, one of the picnic spots we frequented when we lived here.
The kids had a great time jumping from rock to rock on the river. As was bound to happen, both of the kids eventually fell in and got wet. They were good sports and didn’t complain too much about spending the rest of the afternoon with wet shoes and pants.
After some lunch, we headed back to Northampton. Pam and the kids spent some time at the library. Pam and I were curious about how much of the town L would remember. He was 3 1/2 when we moved. He kept saying he didn’t remember anything, but when we got to the library, L said to K, “This is a fun library.” We asked him how he knew that. He said he didn’t know. Though he kept on professing ignorance, it was clear that somewhere deep in his subconscious he was travelling down some familiar paths.