Monday, July 07, 2008

Monday morning trip to the beachDada and I had to stop to check out the driftwood - that is neat stuff. Dada and I went for a walk. The adults' feet got chilly, but I didn't let on that mine were too. The scene to the east of the beach house - you can see Confederation Bridge in the distance. PEI is very proud of their 9 mile long bridge. You don't pay a toll to come on, only to leave. Peepaw and mama.

Bozer in the sand.

The adults taking a break.

And enjoying a pint at Ruthie's Pub and Grill in New London.
Borden July 1st Canada Day ParadeI picked a flower for Meemaw's hair. Sometimes I call her Grandma now. What can I say, I'm growing up. The parade started and before long, we saw Uncle Phillip in the Noonan's fueltruck. Uncle Phillip was sure glad to see us, and we were so excited to see him. What a great day! There were boats too, another of my favorites. And of course, an Anne of Green Gables green convertible! After some snoozing all around, we went to the North Shore to Fisherman's Wharf Lobster Dinners for you know what. Peepaw, Meemaw and mama got lobster and had to wear bibs.
Dada too for his PEI King Crab legs.
I stuck to the watermelon, lots of it! Lots. And the salad bar was pretty good too - pasta, peas, melon, cheese - and ice cream of course. What more can a kid want? But a red Hummer car AND a white PT Cruiser that mama and meemaw bought me at separate times in the gift store. Who's got who wrapped around their finger? Ah, vacation.
On Wednesday morning, dada and peepaw went fishing with Jason and Uncle Leo, so mama and I went to the Park by the Confederation Bridge.

I'm awfully adventuresome with the slides these days. I also chased a lawnmower tractor along the fence for a long ways.

I played some with a little friend. He had a cool bulldozer that I wanted to get my hands on.

Flags for Canada's 10 provinces and 3 territories, but not all of them made the picture.
On Wednesday night, we went to Uncle Leo and Aunt Marilynn's hosue for dinner - we saw Kelly, Alexis and Jarrett too. Cousin Jason was, there, and he took me for a ride in the BIIIIIG blue tractor, Ford tractor, tractor, tractor. And we're off!

I'm at the wheel.

I'm dead serious about this tractor thing foks, don't even think I'm fooling around.
Peepaw and Uncle Leo watching the ride.
Oh yeah.

Cousin Alexis won her soccer game that night, and even scored a goal!
Thursday was another perfectly lovely day. Mama and dada went art shopping while I napped. They had a beautiful drive around the island, stopped into an art gallery and bought a painting. They also found two pictures of boats and lobster traps at a gallery near this dock.
On Thursday night, the family was invited to Uncle Russell and Aunt Karen's house. Uncle Russell is in the family oil business, but also runs a tree farm on his property. The house.
The guys surveying the land.
The trees, and
me running between the baby trees. My cousin Johnny took me for a ride on a big RED tractor!Peepaw was having a great time too! And WOW, Russel had like 4 more tractor type vehicles in his garage, like this Bull Dozer. And this 4 wheeler tractor. That's me and Russell.
The family shot from this gathering - Ga's oldest brother, Uncle Phillip, and youngest brother, Michael.
Happy Fourth of July and Happy (early) Birthday Keegan
On Friday, we invited the family (by now, you know what THAT means) over for a true Fourth of July celebration - hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad and potato chips, along with my John Deere cake.
Some of my cousins went to the Martha Stewart show, and donated their decorations to our party. How festive!
In true PEI kindness, the "lawnmower tractor" man took me for a last tractor ride on the island. Afterward, we waited for our guests to arrive....all 51 of them! William, 3 weeks older than me;
his older sister Claire;



cousins Tanner (performing a karate move); and

Peyton (cheeks!).
Ga's siblings Marilynn, Michael, Ellie and Nora, with Peyton. Cousin Ruth Anne and cousin Josh. Cousin Rachel and her daughters Rebecca and Erin.
Cousin Leah and cousin Alexis. It was fabulous to see Phillip and Lorraine; Pam; Peter; Russell; Maribeth; Jennifer, David and Zoe; Jacinta & Chris (parents to William and Claire); Nora and James; Meemaw and Peepaw and dada; Leo and Marilyn, Donald and Kelly Mulligan, parents to Alexis and Jarrett; Jason and Karen; and Ruthann and Gary. A GRAND TOTAL OF 51 PEOPLE (and one cocker spaniel) attended the celebration!

No worries, there was plenty of cake!


On our way out of town, we FINALLY stopped at John Deere. We had passed it several times where my shrieking of "JOHN DEERE" got to incredible decibels, so mama and dada took me there on our way to do some last errands in Summerside. Who knew JD could be such a cool place?

Not only did I get to climb on some super cool tractors, there was a clothing section for mama to find me the "cutest" green tractor sweatshirt that I'll wear, like, never in Texas (good thing we're in MN for Xmas!) and a limited edition three part tractor series. Cool!

After that adventure, we packed up the cabin with the amazing help of Marilynn and Leo, and headed for home. I set a record by not sleeping one wink on the entire ten hour journey, but did sleep in the next morning. Overall, not so bad. I'll get to leave Texas again.

To all our friends and family in PEI, thanks a bunch for such a wonderful vacation. We can't wait until our paths cross again!