Back to School Boost

Well it has been a long time since our last posting. Sydney and I had a YOLO ( You Only Live Once) trip this summer. We spent six consecutive weeks traveling from the Florida Panhandle to Canada and back. We had a fabulous time! We spent a few days visiting family in Atlanta then went to Asheville, North Carolina and loved the area as well as touring the famous Biltmore House. From there we hit the historic triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown and just ate up the history of the area. Our next stop was several days in Washington DC, did all the normal tourist things in our Nation's Capitol and then off to New York  City, where we had a white knuckle adventure arriving in the city at 5:00 in the afternoon on a Friday, no less! Once the car was parked safely in the hotel garage it did not emerge again until we were ready to leave. Boston was the next stop. My son is going to school in Boston so we had an extended time within that wonderful city, again the history is all around you and it is impossible not to get soaked up in it. From there it was Niagara Falls for a few days. Oh my goodness is all I can say, the amount of water cascading down the falls is unbelievable. If you go be sure and stay on the Canadian side. The view is much better as well as the surrounding area. It was off to Pittsburgh, PA for a few days with some extended family. It was so wonderful to catch up and have Sydney see where I grew up. Gettysburg was our next stop. We stayed in this great hotel that had once been a school. After having been in Yorktown which dealt with more specifically the Revolutionary War and then going to Gettysburg, which of course was the Civil War, how interesting it was for us to see how differently the battles were fought. By this time we were winding down our trip and heading back home. We stopped in Virginia Beach and got a shot of King Neptune on the boardwalk, Wilmington, North Carolina  and walked along the River Walk at night and of course if you are heading south, Charleston, South Carolina is a must. Before heading back to the Panhandle we hit Atlanta again to see my 91 year old mother!

It was a absolutely fabulous trip, to be able to spend so much time with my daughter and to end the trip still enjoying each other, what a blessing!

So now it's back to school time! We are joining in with TPT and adding 10% off our products as well on Wednesday, August 20, so Happy Shopping!


Susanne