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May. 7, 2008
Blogger Friend School #26 - Favorite Travels
Nancy's next assignment for the BFS is about our favourite travels, be it field trips, or family vacation or place. Check out the full details on her blog.
My favourite trip is home - I love to go home. Yes, MY home is here in Saskatchewan, but HOME is back in Quebec, back where I grew up, back where all my old friends are, back where my mum and in-laws are. We've been here 8 years this August, and only been back once. We were blessed to have many internet friends host us along the way to make our trip more friendly, and cut down on costs. We spent 4 weeks on the road, and stayed in 7 different home - there - and then again back here. Our trip took us all the way to Boston, even though Montreal was our goal.
Let me paint a better picture. We set off from our church after lunch, and traveled to North Dakota and into Minnesota. We spent a night there, then moved into Wisconsin where we spent a full day - two nights - with an internet friend in the Fond-du-Lac area. From there we traveled south through Chicago and learned all over again why we love our small city with no traffic, then under lake Michigan and into Michigan State where we stopped for a juice and a pee break at another internet friends house. Pushing off from there, we went north and crossed the St.Claire River at the Port Huron/Sarnia border into Ontario and spent the night with old friends in London Ontario. A nice long morning was spent enjoying our plentiful bounty of children - she had 5 at the time, I had 4 (now she has 7 and I'm expecting my 6th!) and we left late afternoon for Toronto, where a new friend had just re-established herself in the Beaches area along Lake Ontario. We took in some sites together, and then in the late afternoon went to Kingston for 3 days where Stuart spoke at a conference, and I visited with many old friends, and missed more than I would have liked!
The last leg was a three hour trip into Montreal, to Stuart's childhood home - where we unpacked again and relaxed for a few days. We had made plans to have Passover with his brother and wife, so after a short 3-4 days with MIL and FIL - we went an hour more east to Andrew's house and spent Passover weekend with them at their beautiful country house in the woods, far off the beaten path.
Now we were on our way again, out to the eastern townships to spend the night with my old college friend, and on the way we stopped at a new internet friends house for a few hours. My college friend married her college sweetie, and Stuart and I were at their wedding - they have 4 children, so the 8 kids and 4 adults had a great time together. Boston was next on the tour of the east, to meet my best friend. "How?" you say, can she be your best friend, if that was the first time you met her? Well, Susan and I started as internet friends, and then our friendship grew to paper and pen - and the deep intimacy of our relationship in Christ, our joys and trials as wife and mother, our love of knitting, books, nature, and babies just cruised into a natural state of being each other's bestest..
Back to MIL/FIL for another few days of family time with my mother, my sister and all the IL's and childhood friends and first church friends. And then we retraced our steps, back to Kingston for a night with Vicki and Andrew and the girls, then to London, then to Wisconsin, and then a long all nighter drive home, with a secret growing within me.. Asher had been conceived on the trip, and we were just finding out about him as dawn approached. (Funny, the trip we had taken previous to that was down to Denver, and on the way home I found out Janney was on the way too!).
We couldn't make this trip anymore, our van is full, no room for cargo, and in August, the whole family won't even fit in the one van anymore, so I think that's the end of "family" trips, unless we travel in a convoy!
Hebrews 11:8-10 By trusting, Avraham obeyed, after being called to go outv to a place which God would give him as a possession; indeed, he went out without knowing where he was going. By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz'chak and Ya'akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him. For he was looking forward to the city with permanent foundations, of which the architect and builder is God. |
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May. 8, 2008 - Wow!!
Thanks for sharing.
Laurie