Summer Time and the Living's Easy

Woooo not a whole month since my last post... ok just shy of it by 3 days but hey, progress is progress!

It is now officially summer vacation and as soon as I could I hopped on a plane and flew north to my parents house.  I took Portland with me so it would be easier on Jarrod's schedule as well as so I could introduce him to people and surroundings he'd never see in Texas and so far he's doing pretty well. My parents' dog Smokey is still somewhat leary of him and the cat has scratched his face twice (clearly he did not learn from the first time) but my family loves him and he's getting more love than he's probably gotten thus far in his life!

I arrived on Monday June 13th and the very next day went to visit my grandmother in CT.  She is not doing very well, so it was good to see her and talk with her between all of her cat naps.  She remembered who we all were and even was able to tell her nurse that I am a teacher in Texas!  Her biggest concern was that we had cold cuts to eat... That's the great thing about grandmothers, no matter how ill they are, they are always worried about feeding their grandkids :)

Wednesday I took Portland up to my Other grandparents' lake house on Sunapee Lake, NH.  My younger cousins were there for the week, so I got to spend the day with them as well as introduce Portland to my grandparents....and the Lake.  If you have read the post about the beach, you can already imagine how that introduction went.  The weather was B-E-A-Utiful and we even got a boat ride that Portland loved! So nice to be in New England!

He looks calm here, however let me assure you getting him in there took a good 10 mins of whining, dragging, and pulling.  He was looking for every oppurtunity out and once again had the "How could you do this to me?" look. Oh well, I guess some dogs just don't do water.

Looking out on the lake from my grandparents dock.  Not a bad view Aye?

 Much happier to be on solid ground.

New friends and new adventures make for a VERY tired pup!

The rest of that week was full of relaxing (some) and working on school work (lame).  A co-worker and I are rewriting all of the lesson plans for World Geography/Human Geography for next year.  Needless to say it is a much larger project than perhaps either of us thought.  There goes the rest of my summer once I get home to Texas.

It's amazing how sometimes you're just in the right place at the right time.  The first week I am home the Bruins (hockey team for those of you who don't know ;) ) win the Stanley Cup! That in it's self is pretty cool, however what was even better was being 45 mins north of Boston when they did it and being able to go to Boston to celebrate! Now I will admit that I do not follow hockey as much as other sports, but bandwagon or not a championship parade is not something to be missed!  So my first week home ended with seeing the Stanley Cup, braving 1.5 million people in Boston and then relaxing all day Sunday with my family for Father's day on the boat.  So far NH is treating me mighty fine....

WE WANT THE CUP!!!!



Home made t-shirts by my sister :)




The CUP!!!



Black and Yellow :)