we have arrived!

oh, summer camp, how I have missed you!

on the ferry!

we are here, we're here!  after five days on the road, many nights in various guest rooms and air mattresses, kids are now cozy in their summer nests.  it is windy and cold and rainy, but it is CAMP! and we are going to enjoy it, by golly.  jamin's goal was to swim ever day and we are already behind schedule due to the weather, but there have been enough adventures in other realms to make up for it all.



y'all.  our cottage is beyond adorable.  it is almost too cute to live in.  if you have a chance to come up, you should because we are living the good life here and would love to share it with you.  we got in today and there was mail waiting for us, hip hip hooray.  a card from nancy and sue (with strict orders to come home at the end of the summer) and a care package from nonna, eric's mom.  kids wasted no time ripping into that one and getting to know our new back yard.



















last night we stayed with eric's aunt in wappinger's falls.  she is an animal lover, to put it mildly, so kids were in high heaven with dogs and cats and parakeets and a talking parrot and a tortoise.  so cora was able to fulfill a lifelong dream and play with a real turtle.

we stopped for breakfast in katonah, a little town where eric's dad ran a jewelry shop years ago.  we ate at a diner right across the street from the shop, a spot where eric remembered having egg sandwiches and coffee with his dad and andrew.  it meant a lot to be able to do the same with jamin and cora.