Douglas Family: September 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Happy Birthday Penelope

Color and Cake with Friends

Penelope is really excited about her new shoes...plus they are JUST like her friend Leah's shoes that she always steals.

More Pictures from Labor Day

With second cousin Lily

Here are some additional pictures from Labor Day in New York

All the kids, including un-photogenic P

Watching the baseball game

With Lily

Too much fun!

Swinging with Jill

Evvvverybody, except whoever took the picture

Reading books with Lily

Sunday, September 8, 2013

We took a end-of-summer vacation to see some people we hadn't visited in WAY too long!

Penelope loves airplanes, so was very excited to fly to Syracuse, NY. We grabbed a rental car and headed north to Moira for the famous annual Vaughan Pig Roast.

The Vaughan's are Wayne's cousins, who live in same area that Wayne lived from about age 3-12. (I'm just taking a guess here, someone who knows can correct me.) Anyway, every year they have a get together over Labor Day Weekend and roast a real live actual pig. Well I guess it is dead when they roast it, but anyway. We also had fresh apple cider, endless tables of food, and about 60 people to share it all with. I got to meet lots of people that I had heard of and was promised entertaining stories about Wayne - none of which ever materialized, so my husband must not have led a wild and mysterious life when he was 10.

Unfortunately I have few pictures of this part of the trip because our camera conked out.

SO, Monday we started driving north through Quebec and on to New Brunswick. It mostly rained as we drove 15 endless hours to Moncton!

Wayne's Grammie and several other relatives live in the Moncton area. Wayne found us a camera so we started to document the trip with pictures. Wayne's uncle Ron was on vacation - actually his honeymoon! - so he let us stay in his house, which was VERY much appreciated.

Eating fish on the coast a little ways from Moncton: Debbie, Grammie Rita, Al, P & Sheena

The piles of fried fish, scallops, clams, and shrimp

Moncton has the Petitcodiac River (Say it like this: pedi-kodiak) When the tide comes into the Bay of Fundy, it pushes water up the Petitcodiac in a tidal bore.

This is the tidal bore coming through as the water fills up all of the inlets. It wasn't too exciting, but certain times of the year the wave is quite large - and surfers come and surf 20+ miles as the tide comes in!