Berkshires

We got back this afternoon after 2 nights of visiting our friend Joe in the Berkshires. Joe's parents have a beautiful new place in Lee and we had a lovely time enjoying the scenery, snow and Jack's first visit to a museum!

We went to the Norman Rockwell Museum, which surprisingly I had never been to. It was enjoyable, but quite small. His paintings are more impressive in person than I had imagined. He was very talented at capturing light in addition to the more obvious abilities of drawing lively faces and capturing interesting subject matter in fantastic ways. A few of the painting notes mentioned he was influenced by Vermeer which I found intriguing. I will let our sister-in-law correct all my unlearned opinions:)

Even though Jack was extremely well behaved while in the museum, I had to buy this book from the gift shop - The Terrible Captain Jack Visits the Museum Or A Guide to Museum Manners for Incorrigible Pirates and the Like. It is about a Pirate named Jack who is taught lessons in how to behave in a museum from the ship's well-traveled monkey named Steve. It is actually adorable, though a tad advanced for our Jack at the moment.

Thanks Joe (and his parents;) for a fun weekend!





Oh, and for those of you counting, we drove over the New York border so Jack as now been in 6 states. Number 7 (RI) comes next weekend and 8 (FL) the one after. We may also hit a new country before his first birthday if all goes to plan! More on that to come...