The Hartshorn Family Easter and Spring Break 2010

If you’ve never been to St Micheals and Oxford, MD plug it into the GPS for your next roman­tic get­away. Mac and I dropped the girls at their grand­par­ents and stayed at The Inn at Perry Cabin This charm­ing hotel over­looks the Chesapeake Bay, they have a small Spa and com­pli­men­tary bikes to ride around the quaint town. After all that excer­cise and pam­per­ing we enjoyed an after­noon sit­ting by the water watch­ing the sail­boats go by, being served food and cock­tails as the sun went down!

Mac’s par­ents live in Maryland so we make the three hour trip a few times a year. Easter week­end is our favorite time as spring is always ear­lier than New York. This year spring had really kicked in with bulbs, blos­soms and mag­no­lias putting on a divine dis­play. I have included an image of my girls in their Easter Hats (just in case you thought I was kid­ding) with our tra­di­tional Easter cake with was actu­ally edi­ble this year! I found a fab­u­lously easy recipe for the sponge cake.

Our girls had their Spring Break last week and the high­light of our week was a short hike with friends in the Palisades Interstate Park. It was very excit­ing trek­ing through the woods, though sadly many huge trees were down. The kids loved the steep stone paths along the edge of the Hudson and were super exi­cted to find to a water­fall and quaint lit­tle beach with a cou­ple of rope swings. After a river­side pic­nic lunch we had trou­ble con­vinc­ing them to leave. They made dams, col­lected “sea glass” and were nicely worn out by the time we returned! I highly rec­om­mend the area, you can visit the web­site for detailed infor­ma­tion about each walk http://​www​.njpal​isades​.org/ There is also a great look­out on the state line to view Turkey Vultures, Eagles and many other birds as they soar on the ther­mals cre­ated along the steep stone cliffs.