Getting Ready To Go...

Hi Beauties!

Well, today is filled with lots of "fun" activities...(i.e. doing laundry & ironing). Mix that with a trip to the library, the grocery store, and other required errands and you have the makings of a family preparing to go on a wee getaway.

On Easter Monday, we are heading down to Duluth, MN about three-ish hours south of TBay. The season of Lent and Easter is always busy and hectic. So this year we've decided to head south of the border for a couple of days, just to get away and relax. To say I am excited is an understatement.

You need to understand something about me. As has been previously stated, I am a princess. And "royalty", as a people, well...we love to travel. I would LOVE to travel the world, but since that is a financial impossibility at the present moment, I will take a trip to the States -- no problems. I love the mental release you feel when you jump in your car/plane/train and just head off. It feels good to just "leave town". Even if it's to a place only an hour away from where you live. A chance to explore unfamiliar territory. An opportunity to meet interesting folks. A getaway chance to shop in totally different places, eat in new restaurants, have little "adventures", or just to see the sun set in a new locale.

My daughter, bless her heart, has been bitten by the travelling bug too. When she was just eight days old, she and I were off on the plane flying to our home for the first year of her life when my husband did his vicarage year for seminary (he had to drive the van there...). So since she's been a bitty bambina, she's been a traveller. Her mommy and daddy love to just jump in the van on the spur of the moment and just...drive. Our family is like a bunch of explorers just wanting to see what's out beyond the great blue yonder.

Maybe it's a bit of "cabin fever", I don't know. But I do know that when we return from one of our travelling adventures, even if it's just been for the day, we come back refreshed and ready to buckle back down to our daily vocation in life.

I hope you all have a blessed Easter and I will write again once we're back on Thursday.

Tah Tah