vacation 2008 – day 4

We had a wonderful sleep in the comfort of our friends’ home.

Our plans for this day were simple. Denver and Izaac wanted to stay at the Hodder’s and enjoy their flat screen TV with satellite connection. Corbin and Blake spent the day with one another, and then the evening with Blake’s fiancee as well.

Keara, Keigan Michael and I spent the morning relaxing, and then headed off to visit my dear friend, Sue, in Upper Sackville. This is about a 1.5 hour drive from where the Hodder’s are. I haven’t seen Sue in just over 2.5 years, so it was wonderful to catch up with her. Sue is my oldest friend ….not that she’s old, same age as me actually, but we have been friends since 2nd grade. She stood with me at my wedding, and she was the first person, besides my then DH to hold my first born son. Corbin danced at her wedding, at the tender age of 11.5 months of age. We have remained close friends throughout the majority of our lives, with only distance managing to separate us. After years of fertility issues, she was blessed … rather quickly, with 4 beautiful children. Unfortunately, for my younger kiddos, all of her kiddos were gone from home when we got there. Two were at Grandma’s place in Lyons Brook, N.S. and two were at day soccer camp. So they played on their backyard playground until Katie and Alex got home at 4pm from soccer camp.

At 4:35pm, the children and I headed back to Upper Stewiacke. By this time we were back to the pounding rain torrents we had experienced on Monday night and Tuesday night. The drive back was tedious and difficult with visibility, at times, only about 2 – 3 feet in front of my car. We arrived back safe, and maybe not so sound as we would have liked to be … but safe.

The original plan for today, was that we were suppose to all meet up on the Dartmouth side of the harbour at 4pm. The Hodders and the Browns were going to go and enjoy the International Buskers Fair on the Halifax Water front. I haven’t been to see the buskers since Corbin was in diapers! However, at about 3:30pm, it started to rain – again. So Dave and I talked and we decided, along with Eva Jane, that we would have to fore go this pleasure, as the rain was getting heavier and heavier. Everyone was disappointed, but it did give Sue and I longer to visit, and did allow the kids 1/2 an hour of play time with Sue’s older two kiddos too.

We enjoyed a nice supper together and then our other family friend, Dave’s sister, Elizabeth, arrived with a couple of her children to visit for the evening. It was another night of laughter, fun and chuckles together … and we had no less than 9 teenagers and the two younger children, playing board games in the family room too. It was a blast.

Elizabeth and I made plans to spend the next day together. She took her clan and headed for home, and then we all filtered off to our various sleeping and resting areas.

It was a quieter day, but no less enjoyable than the other more frenetic days.

End of day 4, Day 5 to come . . .

Lisa