I’m baa-ack

Well, we’ve returned from our holidays, and we had a great time.  I wish I could promise you that I will write a long, detailed post about all that we did and saw, but I don’t know if I can guarantee that.  You know how sometimes there’s just too much to say, so it’s easier to say nothing? Yeah, that’s how I feel.  We crammed so much into two weeks, I really don’t know where to begin.  So I’ll just leave you with a photo essay of our trip and we’ll leave it at that.

First up: Nova Scotia.  I already gave you the play by play of our trip out there, so we’ll just jump right to the actual trip.

I celebrated my 26th birthday with the Bokmas this year and it was great.  Here I am eating my birthday breakfast.  I know I may LOOK like I’m trying to be a pirate, but the sad truth is that because of my labyrinthytis, I now have  double vision when I first wake up in the morning, so it’s easier for me to have an eye closed.  In this shot, I didn’t even realize I was doing it, but it was the only way the camera looked focussed to me, so it made sense to have an eye closed.  I do realize however, how ridiculous I look.

Just for fun, let’s see how even more ridiculous I looked when I tried to keep both eyes open and focus at the camera.  I like to call this one “Loving the Lazy Eye”

 

Also for my birthday, Ben surprised me with a whale watching trip!  I’ve always wanted to see a whale, so he planned a trip away for a night to the coast and the next day we went whale watching.  Ben’s parents and sister came too, we had a lot of fun. 

 

We also had a Bokma family reunion with (mostly) the entire Bokma clan, to help his grandparents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 

We played a lot of this:

Ate a lot of this:

 

And had an open house and honoured his grandparents the best way we knew how: Having Ben dress up in a pink nightgown and pretend to be his grandmother.

 

It was a great week of reconnecting with family, soccer,  good talks, river rafting, great food, more soccer, relaxation and lots of fun.  Ben and I were so thankful that we could be there for the reunion and left feeling full.  (I’m not talking about food there either, although that was probably the case too…)

 

Well, there’s so much more I could write, but frankly, I’m getting tired of waiting for pictures to upload, so you’ll have to wait until later to hear about part 2 of our trip: Saskatchewan.  I know, even that title there makes it sound exciting.   Stay tuned!