It’s amazing how much work goes into getting ready for a trip. Days of gathering items for a 3, 000 mile trip, one that takes you into a foreign land as well as Canada (heh). Do you need a language phrase book for Canada. It is almost as if you need a vacation to get ready for your vacation. At least I stress out more about getting ready (because no matter how much planning and reminder messages to myself I always FORGET something).

Sometimes I think there is a little evil elf or fairy that takes that one item out and hides it, while laughing hysterically while I am in the car ripping apart the nicely packed bags looking for said item. Only to have been set on the counter, under a magazine, under a couch cushion, in the dog’s toy box…etc! This time I left three things behind that no matter how many times I stuffed the items in my bag or in the trunk of the car they just kept popping out. What is so important about these three items you may ask. Well they are Dave, Kenai and Humpy. I am sad that they are not with me on this journey. Humpy not so much since he hates the car but miss turning around and seeing Kenai gaze rapturously out the window and Dave with his silly stories and his contagious laughter. But this story isn’t about them, not really. It is about an amazing journey for my Mom and I. One that is only ours and ours alone. One that we will have great stories to embellish in the years to come…

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Enjoying the Sunshine.

Swimming Doggy