Summer Vacation

Although we didn't have a lot of extra money when I was a kid, my parents always made sure that we got to travel (by station wagon of course) and really enjoyed out summer.  When I asked my mom why we weren't in soccer in the summer she said it was because we always complained when we had to leave the beach early!  I grew up in PEI, can you blame me?

So now that we are 'all grown up', this is still something I want for our families. It's tough, I work in recreation and g works in construction, so the summer months are busy. But fortunately we've had things we 'had' to go to the past couple of years, so it made it easier to work things around.  Last year I was standing in a wedding for a roomie for university so that gave us a great opportunity to visit New England and get some great shopping done.  This year we had a lucky draw of dates since my big bro was getting married, and g had a ball tournament the following week.  As much as I adore my Mom and Dad, I knew staying there for a full week would be a little much. So we booked a beautiful cottage and called it a vacation!

The schedule looked kind of like this. First Lyla and I went over to PEI for a quick weekend trip.  A cousin of mine who lives on the complete other side of the country was visiting for the first time since my parents' wedding, and she couldn't stick around for my brother's wedding. So since it was also 'Old Home Week' in Charlottetown we figured we take in a few things.  Then I had to come back for Mon-Wed for work. Lyla and my sister and I headed back on Wednesday to help prep for the wedding which was on Saturday.  g came on Friday and we checked into the cottage on Saturday for the week.  He played 2 games a day all week (it was SO hot), and other than that we just enjoyed visiting.

Here's a couple of my favorite pics...lots more to come!