Showing posts with label Michael. Show all posts
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Friday, April 6, 2012

Virginia Beach

Words can't describe how great we all felt during this vacation! We didn't even do that much! Maybe that's why it was so wonderful. It reminded me of a quote from Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat Pray Love. 


“Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.”  

  Always we go on vacation and Do Do Do. We have to set alarm clocks so we can all be up, showered, fed (maybe) and on the road to the next source of amusement. We rarely had days (hours?) to do anything on a whim, without having to check our watches. I'm happy to say, aside from our one scheduled day at the Epilepsy Walk, that we really relaxed this vacation. There was no rush to wake at a certain time because there were so many all day breakfast diners within walking distance. Lunch and dinner were the same way. There was endless entertainment just outside our door. And since that entertainment was the ocean, sandcastles, pools that never closed, walks along the beach, playgrounds or sitting on our balcony enjoying the view...we could do it any time we wanted! It never closed! ♥ 








We love all our vacations. We can't wait for another 'scheduled' vacation. They are filled with as many memories, smiles and laughter as this one. We are just happy to know we CAN do this type of vacation and love it! We hope to take similar trips (probably always to beaches) every year!


Saturday, February 25, 2012

Pied Piper Creamery


I feel like we did so much in our recent Nashville visit that I can't fit it all into one post (and Michael would never let me sit here that long!) :) We went to this cute little ice cream shop that we found on a '50 things to do with your kids in Nashville' website. It was called The Pied Piper Creamery.



















 They have so many DIFFERENT ice cream flavors! Matt, being predictable Matt :), ordered C is for cookie. Cookie dough ice cream, I believe. Matt likes to play it safe :) Elizabeth and I got a little more daring!
The blue one is mine. It was called Smurfberry Crunch and made of blue raspberry sherbet and Nerds :) Mmmmm! Elizabeth got Trailer Trash! It was vanilla ice cream mixed with all the yumminess pictured below!

She LOVED it!
Michael enjoyed eating a little bit of everyone's but mostly he loved doing circles around the corner booth then playing outside! We ran UP the stairs then Mommy carried him down.... then we ran back UP! I think I got the hard end of that game!
This delightful little shop was so close to Michael's hospital that we plan on visiting every time we're over that way!