Justice's Winter Break in Massachusetts With Jocelyn and Nolan

Justice traveled with Jocelyn and Nolan to Bourne, Massachusetts for the winter break. They arrived after a huge snow storm and found that there was 21 inches of snow on the ground. The kids and Justice were able to go sledding, build a snow fort and have snowball fights.


Jocelyn and Nolan took Justice with them to visit Edaville Railroad in Carver, Massachusetts. Edaville Railroad is considered one of the oldest heritage railroads in the country. It opened up in 1947. Jocelyn, Nolan and Justice were able to ride the train at night and view beautiful Christmas light displays on the property. Edaville Railroad also has outside amusement rides, which were very fun, but cold as it was only 18 degrees the night they went. They also got to go into a museum at Edaville Railroad and learned about harvesting cranberries. The area of Massachusetts they were in has many cranberry bogs. Justice, Jocelyn and Nolan got to see and sit in all different types of tractors/harvesting machinery that has been used throughout the years to harvest cranberries. It was interesting to see how harvesting cranberries progressed from using a hand held wooden rake like baskets to the machines that are used in more modern times to pick cranberries.

Nolan and his father went to see a Worcester Sharks AHL hockey game, the AHL teams are like the minor leagues for the NHL. The Worcester Sharks are the minor league team for the San Jose Sharks hockey team. So, the players on the Worcester Sharks will sometimes be called up to play for the San Jose Sharks and injured players for the San Jose Sharks will go play on the Worcester Sharks to help them get used to playing again before they go back up to the NHL.

Instead of the hockey game, Jocelyn and Justice went to see the “Enchanted Village” in Avon, Massachusetts. The Enchanted Village is very well known in the Boston area. It used to be owned by the Jordan Marsh Dept. Store and every year at Christmas time they would decorate their store windows with scenes from the Enchanted Village, which included quaint New England winter scenes with motorized mannequins and folks would come from all over to see it. Jordan Marsh has since gone out of business and the Enchanted Village was put up for auction. A local New England furniture store, Jordan’s Furniture, bought the entire Enchanted Village and had the antique scenes and motorized mannequins refurbished and brought to one of there show rooms (8,000 sq feet) and allowed people to come for free to view the Enchanted Village during the Christmas season. They owners of the furniture store felt so strongly that they wanted to keep up this tradition alive that they didn’t want the set to be split up at auction. It was beautiful and every 10- 15 mins. they made snow, which was really fun to have falling around while you viewed all the scenes.

Justice also joined Jocelyn and Nolan at the Boston Children’s Museum. This was a really fun day. The kids and Justice got to climb in the New Balance Climb, which is a three story climbing sculpture made of curved platforms. They explored the bubble room, toured an actual Japanese house that was 100 years old and was a gift to the museum about 30 years ago. They experimented with putting balls on different raceways and seeing how they moved. Jocelyn and her father also got to participate in a production of The Three Little Pigs at the Kids Stage. After 6 hours at the Children’s museum, they had to leave because the museum was closing, but they could have stayed and played for much longer.

It was a great trip to Massachusetts for Justice, Jocelyn and Nolan. They look forward to having more adventures with the Patriot kids on another trip.