Well, we made it back alive from our big trip to VT. Incredibly, the boys were absolute ANGELS on both flights to and from and we were amazed how many people commented on how they good they were!!?? Ha! That was definitely unexpected, but we were thrilled with it none the less. The trip was awesome and we were really sad to leave. The only bad part was that the heat seemed to follow us all the way up there! The highest temperature was only about 90 but the humidity made it almost unbearable. There were a few cool days, but the hot ones outnumbered them. We were able to get away from it by going up the mountain or visiting a swimming hole, but we didn’t really get to enjoy the beautiful weather of a VT summer as the state was going through an “unusual” heat wave. Go figure!! Oh well…hopefully the next time we get up there (which we’re hoping is sometime early next year) we’ll be able to experience a crazy winter! We’ll see…
On the 6th of July, we took a trip out to Rhode Island to suprise our Grandma (dad’s side) with a visit. Most of this side of my family live in RI and I haven’t seen them since I was 14 years old. I wanted everyone to meet the boys and catch up after such a long time. We showed up on Friday night and had dinner with our Aunt Elena and Uncle John and then the next day they hosted a BBQ to suprise our Grandma. When she came to the house, they ushered us into the family room and then they brought her in…it was awesome and she was super suprised. We were there for a couple hours and then went back to the hotel. Then later that night, our cousin and Aunt took us out to this event called “Waterfire.” It was really interesting. Then the following morning we went over to my Uncle Bill and Aunt Lauren’s house for brunch and got to see almost everyone. It was a great visit and I’m so glad our boys got to finally meet their Great Grandma.
One dissapointing aspect of the trip was that a couple months ago I totally munted my ankle on a boulder problem out in Hueco. I was on crutches for a week and I could barely walk on it even after a couple weeks, so the Tough Mudder had to be rescheduled. We transfered our registrations to the February 2013 race in AZ, but were bummed that we couldn’t run in the toughest one of them all on Mt. Snow. It would have been a welcome relief from the heat!! We met a guy down in Burlington last Monday who had just run it the previous day and said it was amazing. So if we ever get the chance, we will definitely do it. =)
The rest of the trip was pretty low key – Holly took several days off to hang out with us and we did spend a lot of that time up on the mountain… but more on that later. We went kayaking, bike riding, sight seeing and played games where at the end we wanted to kill eachother. (Hearts anyone? Die.) The boys had a lot of fun playing out in the yard, messing around with the dogs and getting tons of attention from their Auntie. It felt like a short and long trip all in one.
Thank you guys for such a wonderful trip – we miss you heaps already. Love you!