Thursday, May 31, 2007

Holiday Road

Having loaded up the Family Truckster and driven to Wally World (a.k.a. Charlevoix, MI) and back, the Griswolds are back home! Eliza and I got home a couple of days ago, after dropping Mac off in beautiful Allegan, but it's taken us that time to recover in terms of getting back on schedule and unpacked and all that jazz, so I'm just now posting. I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.

We were fortunate to have nice weather almost every day, which meant we were so busy having fun that we didn't take nearly as many pictures as we should have. Particularly disappointing since Eliza had so much fun with her extended family - I wish I'd caught those moments on...disc? (A new semantic puzzle - what do we call capturing these moments now that they're not on film and really exist only as bits and bytes? Much like audio books - can you say you've read a book if all you did was listen to it? Ponder that and get back to me with your thoughts, please) Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Eliza added one new person to her list of approved NOTMOM's who can hold her - kudos to Aunt Mary for spending enough time on the floor that Eliza decided she was okay. Given another day, pretty Cousin Ramona surely would have made the list as well since she wears fun jewelry that can be grabbed and understands the fun of sand on your toes.

Eliza's main adventures were: the beach, of course, which she loved;

a walk into town; playing in the park,


which had the added bonus of meeting Pumpkin, the friendliest dog around;


and a photo session with Cousin Richard and his fancy camera.


She was also incredibly chatty all weekend. I think because there were so many people talking in these big group settings that she felt her voice needed to be heard as well. Fun times and it's a shame everyone lives so far away.

Also, before we left last week, she went for a swim at Connor's house in his fancy pool. Good times were had by all!

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