Lulu In Delaware!!!

Becky Hinckley (Collins)
Your geo-gnome came to Delaware. It spent most the week at home with us with sick kids. We did go to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania yesterday, but I forgot to take him for a picture. I made a picture on the file attached with Lulu in it. I am sorry I didn't get any pictures with Lulu in them!

Delaware is a great place to live. Everyone is friendly and happy. It is not the typical "East Coast" attitude that you hear about. The weather is nice with the exception of the humidity. The summers get pretty hot and humid and the winters pretty cold and humid. The spring and fall is very nice and beautiful because it is so green. It rains a lot and when it rains it really comes down like you wouldn't beleive, but there is not a whole lot of snow. When it does snow, even a little bit all the schools are closed. Sometimes the schools close if there is even a forecast of snow!

Delaware is part of what is called the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula. It is made up of all of Delaware and a small part of Maryland and Virginia. Pennsylvania is North of Delaware and New Jersey is just across the bridge to the East. If you head 30 minutes in North, West, or East from where I live you will be in another state.

Cars are the main form of transportation, although there is a bus system available for those without cars. It is not too reliable though. The Amtrak train is used a lot for those who commute to DC, New York, or Philly for their jobs.

Unfortunately, there are not any mountains around us. If you use your imagination, it sometimes seems like you are in the mountains because there are very tall trees lining the highways and many backyards. As I said before it is very green.