Fredericton...

IT IS TIME. For the vacation post! We had set the alarm for 5am on Saturday morning so that we could have a good breakfast and get on the road. At 4am I have a massive nightmare and wake up in a cold sweat. 5 minutes later I hear The Boy…giggling!?! Then he starts calling for Mommy. When I get to his room and ask him what was wrong he asks me why I was calling him! I told him it was a dream and crawled into bed with him and started rubbing his back. After a little while I realize that it’s less then an hour away from when the alarm is scheduled to go and both The Boy and I are awake. At this point I send him in to wake up J so that we can get going. After having breakfast, packing the car, and doing a final bathroom break we start out. Things are going well and we get all the way to the Blair Rd. turn off when I screech out, “OH MY GOD I FORGOT MY PURSE!!!”. It contains my drivers license, the Boy and my health cards, me MP3 Player, my palm pilot, and my cell phone as well as other miscellaneous things. It has taken us an hour to get to this point, we are not turning around ‘cause if we do it’s going to be two hours before we get back to the same spot. I have many, many moments of self rage throughout the day over this. We get to Montreal and take the right turn off to get to the tunnel…and accidentally turn off the highway into Montreal!?! Wrong turn one of the day. We get back to the right road with no incident and continue on our way. We do several stops with us taking the Boy into the bathroom and then running his face off in the parks provided. We had fun pointing out land marks along the way. Rivers, mountains, the giant egg, the giant husky dog, bridges…bridges that we are suddenly going across that we shouldn’t be!?! Wrong turn number two of the day. Suddenly we are in Quebec City!?! Insert wrong turns three and four as we try to get back to highway 20. We ended up doing a lovely tour along the river and got to see a pretty cool church on the edge of a cliff. Anyway, we got back to the main road okay and eventually got to Fredericton.

A great week was had with Marco, Kelly, and Emily. The kids loved each other and spent most of their time together making each other giggle their faces off. Because I had left my driver’s license at home I was pretty much house bound and didn’t go out unless J was driving. On Sunday I went on a girls’ day to Moncton with Kelly shopping, Monday was Thanksgiving dinner with J’s family out at him mom’s place in Minto, Tuesday was hanging out at home with the Boy during the day then taking him back to Minto for an overnight stay with Nana. J and I went out for awesome dinner at Mei’s for CURRY NOODLES with ANGERAH, Wednesday was Cindy and George’s place for another family dinner and picking up The Boy, Thursday was dinner with Marco and Kelly, Friday was dinner with them again and an aborted trip to Rob and Betty’s place. We then packed the car and got up early on Saturday morning to get to Boyce’s Farmer’s Market before hitting the road. Got a MASSIVE tray of home-made baklava, but there weren’t any Samosa’s that day! ( The drive home was great with the Boy sleeping four times during the drive. We got home at about 6pm that night. Sunday was cleaning the house then Monday was back at work. PHEW!!! I need a vacation….