Maine Voyage Part 2

Family is VERY important to me. Without my family, i would be completely lost. I have the best 3 Brothers, 2 Sisters-in-law and 1 sister in the world. I also have the best 2 Cats and 1 Dog. I have the best family anyone could ask for. Hey, we're not perfect but we ARE family and thats whats important. In this post i shall tell you about the wonderful meal we had at my Brother and Sister in laws house. I shall also tell you about the time we had at our cousins house.

When we left our Grandparents house we knew we had a while to drive. About an hour to Patrick and Amanda's house. But we had our GPS with us and we knew we could depend on it to get where we have to go safely! I wish that was true. That demented piece of technology took us about an hour out of the way. I swear, we were driving the complete wrong direction for at least 30 min. What should have been a one hour trip transformed into a 2 hour fiasco.

Define: Fiasco.

Fee- as-koh. -noun, plural.

1. A complete ignominious failure.

Once we finally arived at out destination we had a great time! The food was awesome, we all ate ourselves silly. Not that i wasnt looking foreward to seeing my cousins, but i have to admit i was kind of sad to leave! I dont see my Brother and Sister in law that often. But when we do, we always have the BEST time! :)

At our cousins house, we immediately left to go get ben and jerrys. Because no visit is complete without Ben and Jerrys icecream. One thing we did was play jenga. Not normal jenga. Super Jenga. Jenga with blocks the size of shoe boxes. So it wasnt "Yay! Jenga!" It was "Yeah. Jenga, b**ch." Proud moment for me, right there. There was also cake involved! Lots of sugar= fun night. The first 40 min. of Mega shark V.S giant octopus made it all better. My cousin pointed out bedtime might be a good idea when we noticed the sun was rising....

And i was supposed to get up for church in a few hours. I immediately passed out untill 8am when my alarm woke me up. I sat up in bed and...Ohh...I think im gonna be sick...BLE--

To be continued in Maine Voyage Part 3

Almost N.Y.C

So it begins! Maine voyage part 1.

What begins? Why, summer of course. Summer never actually begins on the date the calender tells you. It begins on a different day for every person. This year, summer began on memorial day weekend. Summer often begins on memorial day weekend for many families, but not always. Sometimes it begins on.. Say.. June 15th. Why? Oh, no special reason. Well its not special for YOU anyway. On June 15th 2010 the Anderson family's summer began because they had their first family beach outing! But summer didn't begin for the Edwards family until June 20th, when they set off on their voyage across country in their RV.

My family's summer started the day we drove up to Maine to visit family and friends! This was the plan:

Thursday- Friday. Stay at Grandparents lake house.

Saturday- Cookout with Brother and Sister in law.

Saturday Night- Stay night at cousins house.

Sunday- Meet up with friends at church.
Sunday Night- Stay at Friends house.

Monday- Drive home.

Here's how it all went down!

Wednesday night was spent packing everything i might possibly need for a trip to Maine for a few days. Planning every outfit out, making checklists, ect. The next morning we made the trip up to vacationland! The sight of that little brown house at the end of that bumpy dirt road has been one of the most exciting things for as long as i can remember. That lake that all of us cousins had been swimming in all our lives never changed. It's always been the familiar warm water, surrounded by pine trees and the sounds of splashing children. I'll never forget the feeling of floating on my back, staring up at that big blue sky with the warm sun reflecting off the water. The two days we spent at Grand moms and Grand Dads were perfect, warm ones. We left the little paradise with smiles on our faces, slight sunburns and anticipation of what was to come on our "Summer Kickoff" weekend.

Part II of our Maine Voyage coming VERY soon! (:

~ Almost N.Y.C