After my quick visit to Beantown for my reunion, it was time to come home and get ready for our family vacation. We were going back to Beantown, driving this time, for a family wedding. As it always happens, there is never enough time when going back. I will never have enough hours or days to see everyone. That is tough as this time I didn’t get to see some of my besties, but thank God for technology! I did get to see some of my amazing LLS friends that I hadn’t seen in over five years and for that I’m grateful. I was able to meet my friend’s seven month old and her wonderful partner. When you know someone for over 35 years you want to make sure that the man they end up with is worthy of their awesomeness, and I can say that he is. Oh and miss A, is absolutely beautiful. I’m so happy for you S and your little family! With all of this we were able to sneak in some family time as well.
Other than of course this family time, the main reason for attending was my cousin’s daughter’s wedding. If you know me personally, you know that my entire family is in Greece, so when I say cousin it is actually my second cousin’s cousin. We’re Greek, this how we roll. Regardless this family took us in as their own many, many years ago. We had countless holidays at their parent’s house, countless drives in the white station wagon to Cape Cod with 5 or 6 of us in the back, that I remember fondly to this day. Oh and there was this one time that V didn’t want to go to the beach so we borrowed the station wagon and went swimming in a random motel’s outdoor pool. Miss K attended her second wedding (well the church part and probably the first one she’ll remember). The bride was stunning and it was amazing to see so many cousins there, especially a couple who I hadn’t seen in over 10 years. Of course a big shout out to the C Family for watching Miss K so that we can enjoy some adult time at the reception.
We topped it all off with celebrating Father’s Day with three of my favourite men. My dad, my husband and my brother. We enjoyed a great lunch downtown and had fun watching me get heckled by a clown who was blasting me with his water gun. I’m not going to lie it was hot and I took it like a champ. Unfortunately as with all good things, the trip had to come to an end. It was sad to say goodbye to my family. Regardless of how many times we do it, it still gets me every time. Don’t get me wrong, I love my current life but a piece of me does stay behind. The kid did awesome in the car and we made it back in amazing time. Before we knew it we were catching up on laundry and stopping at Starbucks. As great it is to be away, it is always wonderful to come home. Now that vacation time is over, time to make some plans to fill up the rest of our free weeks this summer!
Here are some highlights from our trip…
