One of the pleasures of living at the coast, is that not only do you get to enjoy your own vacations but you also get to join in with those of friends and relatives. This weekend, we were pleased to have the company of Albaniana and family. The weather was just about perfect and today we headed to the beach for some sun and surf. Although we didn't resort to knotted handkerchiefs, there was something particularly British about the way many of the party got on with swimming undeterred by the chilly waters, building dams and sandcastles on a grand scale, then heading home for a nice cup of tea (after a stop off for the closest thing to a pub lunch we could find nearby).
It has been great to see them and to have a way of holding back the end of the school vacation. The young Exiles have little more than a week left before the old routine resumes. School supplies are lurking in a corner and, thanks to E5N1 having pocket money to spare when we went to buy the supplies, the house is full of Post-it notes bearing strange messages: "scavenger hunt - look for sticky notes" (not too difficult, they are everywhere), "ten million bottles of beer on the wall" (glad he didn't decide to try and perform that song during our recent road trip) and, mysteriously, "great minds think alike" (but whose?).
There are many unknowns ahead as we face our first full school year in Maine but we can't delay it much longer...well, perhaps one more week...
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