Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Vacation Ends . . . and Continues

Well, after a fairly lengthy absence from the blogosphere, and more particularly, an internet connecion while on vacation in Oregon, I'm back!  Thankfully, vacation still stretches out before us for many weeks still, as my hubby is a high school teacher and has the summers off.  We are very acustomed to this luxury called vacation and highly value our time off every year as a family to come, go, and have adventures of all sorts.  Last summer, we had a truly amazing adventure after buying a house in North Dakota off of e-bay and living there (but actually in a different house next door) in a very small town during the majority of our summer break.  This summer, however, we had to take a hiatus from returning to our lovely ND house because our newly purchased home here in SoCal needs a fair bit of attention before school commences again in the fall.  There are some traditions that must be kept up, though, and one of those for us is returning every summer to my hubby's childhood home in Southern Oregon to stay for several weeks with his parents and visit our regular haunts.  I will be including a few more posts about some of our favorite summer traditions and the fun that we have been having for the past couple of weeks. 

Happy 4th of July, a day late, too!  Yesterday we traveled a little over 800 miles, beginning at 3:30 a.m. and arriving home at 5:00 p.m.  It turns out that the 4th of July is a great travel day with very little traffic, no in-progress road  construction, and fewer trucks on the road than usual.  Who would have thought?  :-)

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