Friday, July 20, 2007

fabulous vacation

well, we're in canada and having a great time! today is our last day here and i can't believe how quickly the past week has gone. i've had a chance to see so many dear friends and TONS of family (we had a family BBQ on sunday and nearly 50 people showed up!) on monday we took the ferry to vancouver island to see our friend miriam and her family. unfortunately we were unable to do much sightseeing as we awoke tuesday morning to pouring rain! :( fern and leah and their kids were in the area, so we met up with them at a mall in victoria before coming home. the past few days have just been more relaxed....chilling with the family. andy and cara and sarah are down from princeton, so we are hanging out as much as possible. this is the first time that our entire family has been together since my and josh's wedding 3 years ago!

tristan has been doing amazing. on the flight here he barely made a peep and was in a pretty good mood all day despite having nearly no sleep for 12 hours straight!!! he has fallen in love with my sister cherie and is being very generous with his charming smiles. he's adapted well to taking naps in a "strange" place, the key to which we found was making sure the room is so dark that he can't tell that he's not at home!

today darla is coming over for a coffee date and my mom is making lovella's recipe of roll kuchen for lunch. josh and i just may go out for dinner (alone!!) though he's been feeling quite sick, so we'll wait and see how that goes. like any fabulous vacation, i could easily stay for another whole week, but my true home is beckoning and soon we will leave this land of vibrant green and arrive back into the land of various shades of brown and gold.

i've got so many pictures to post, but they'll have to wait a few days...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you're having fun!! Can't wait to see the pictures. Also happy to hear that Tristan is having a good vacation, too.
See you when you get home.

Lee said...

It was SO good to get see you again. You have an absolutely adorable son, and it makes me miss you even more when I see you. Love you.

rachel joy said...

I'm sorry I missed you. Glad you had such a good time!

Lovella ♥ said...

Ah there is nothing like family to draw a smile from a child.
It was just wonderful to see you, and Tristan . .such a treat.
You are just incredibly sweet to take time to visit with your blogging buddies. Thank you for doing that. I felt so special.