That’s how we describe the island we are traveling to this week. Mogs also knows there will be ice cream cones and ferry rides. Tony and I are really excited to take her there and happy to have our first real family vacation! (We aren’t counting all the trips to help family move or sitting in a post-op waiting room…gosh, we are way overdue for a little relaxing fun.)
So, I will be returning to my blog next week. I hope to have a few drawings done and maybe a bit of quilting done, too.
An Art Giveaway, dear friends:
Tell me what your ideal vacation would be–where, with whom, what activities would you do, best cuisine, music to bring along. Post your comment and I’ll enter you into a drawing for a small painting that I make this week.
Have a great week everyone!
My ideal vacation would be on a houseboat, or really any kind of boat that is easy to navigate and that someone else is in charge of doing so– meandering around the coasts of italy, greece and the likes. Stopping off shore tiny islands where we swim or row to to buy fresh cheese and tomatoes and fish and fruit and we swim back and cook and read and talk and nap the days away.
There would be a large stockpile of books that we would all bring to form a common library we could all dip into. Music? There would be a lot of it–Ethiopiques (v.4), Cesaria Evora, Fela, Talking Heads, Eric Satie..hopefully we’d all bring ipods loaded with stuff that would play on the fancy just plug in your ipod here stereo device installed on the boat, and magically there would be a way to tell my friend that I don’t care so much for Avril Levine without hurting their feelings. Who would be on the boat? You and Tony and Mogs of course, Sean, Rebeca P., The Maleys, Char, Torie, Sam & Larry, Anna and Seth, Taj, Brit & Scooter, Rick & Amelia, The Crows, Jane (what can I say, it’s a big boat and my first opportunity to get my NY, Oly and SD friends all in one place!)
My ideal vacation would be to a cozy house near a beach with good sand for sandcastle building and clean water for splashing in. The house would have a big enclosed play area with lots of different plants, birds, crawling bugs, digging spots, and hiding niches so that our kids could explore more independently than they can in the city. We’d want a grocery store nearby so that we could cook at the house, but also maybe a restaurant with good beer not too far away. Finally, close by the restaurant there would need to be lots and lots and lots of antique stores that I could get lost in while my husband played with the kids back at the house. In the evenings I’d play Scrabble with my son, and he’d beat me less than half of the time.
The soundtrack to this trip would be mostly Brazilian.