20 years

20 years ago at the end of September I married my best friend...

Gag. I mean it's true, but, so sappy.

We took last weekend as an anniversary get away.

We stayed at the Nutmeg Inn B&B in Meredith, NH. 

A nice little B&B, the building has been there since 1763. We stayed in the "Sugar Shack" which is next door to the inn. It's small, maybe 16x20, with a spiral staircase to the second floor.

The bed was comfortable, breakfast was good, what else could you ask for. Oh, it was charming, B&Bs are supposed to be charming. I don't get paid anything if you click the link. If you do end up going there maybe mention you read about it here. They're nice folks. The location is fantastic, easy access to both Meredith and Weirs Beach, not too far from Laconia.

We spent the day at the Funspot, "the worlds largest arcade". 

If you like arcades you owe it to yourself to go to the Funspot. Theres something like 600 arcade games, bowling, skee ball, and all the ticket barfing amusement you could want. The food is actually pretty good too, all things considered. We spent a HUGE amount of time there, like more time than I've ever spent in an arcade in one chunk. I discovered that my bride likes arcades as much as I do which was surprising to discover considering how long we've been together.

One game I really wanted to play was "Firetruck" 

This is one of the first games I remember from my childhood. It's a cool idea too, you collaborate to drive the firetruck with one driver in the front and one in the rear. Sadly this one didn't seem to be working for the rear driver, it was still kind of hilarious to try though.

Qbert is the first arcade game I ever remember playing. It was on the pier at Old Orchard beach back in the day when the last thing out on the pier was an arcade. That arcade closed over 30 years ago but I still remember being able to see through the boards in the floor down to the water.

Angie turns out to really like pinball and this is her favorite "Jokerz". It's a fairly advanced one which includes digitized speech.

Computer space is the first "video arcade game" as we know it today. This one wasn't working right but I'm given to understand it's quite a hard game anyway because the physics are realistic and, well reality is boring...

Dinner was on the "turkey train" put on by the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad. The turkey was from Hart's Turkey Farm which is just up the road.

We went all out, you really ought to dress up for these things. Many of our fellow diners looked like they had just rolled out of bed. I can't imagine going out to dinner in sweat pants.

Turkey dinner with all the fixings carved to order while trundling along in a 100 year old rail car. Pretty fun.

The railroad has an interesting story, it was bought by the state of New Hampshire after the old Boston and Maine gave it up and was eventually sold to a private investor who ran it until his death when his kids took it over. The "kids" are about my age but were only in their early 20s when they started running the thing. 

The whole trip takes 2 hours and covers maybe 8 or 9 miles. At one point we traveled beside the road where there was one of those speed tracker signs that listed us at 14mph.

We slept well that night, it had been a long, full day...