Puzzles Galore

When the stay at home order started in mid March we immediatly decided to order White Mountain puzzles to keep us occupied during our time at home.  It took longer for them to ship then normal due to COVID-19 restrictions, but thankfully we did get our entire order about three weeks after we placed it.  We received our puzzles on April 7th and started to work on them immediately.  Doug and I picked the Neuschwanstein Castle to begin with as we were intrigued by it ever since we "flew" over it in Soarin' at EPCOT.  The castle part was actually easy to complete, but the trees and sky took quite some time to finish.  It was a lot of fun to work on, however, and we both enjoyed it.

The second puzzle we finished was the state of California.  It was neat to see all of the places that we had visited on Meg's senior spring break trip last April.  It was definitely the easiest of the five to complete, which actually was a a nice break after the Neuschwanstein Castle.  The third puzzle was by far the hardest.  It was based on the painting La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.  We had seen the original in the Chicago Art Museum and I had picked it as the background on my Discover card.  It took a lot of work to complete with Doug doing the most of it.  The different versions of green, purple and brown dots in the painting were hard to distinguish.  I was impressed with how well he did with it.

The last two puzzles were the state of Florida and the city of Chicago.  We enjoyed both as we had visited quite a few places on the puzzles.  Neither were as hard as the castle or painting, but definitely more challenging than California.  We won't have as much time for puzzles now with the warmer weather.  No matter the difficulty we enjoyed all five puzzles and were happy for the time that we spent together completing them.  It was a nice diversion this past month during the stay at home order, especially with the cooler than normal spring temperatures.