Long Island Weekend

Last weekend Ally and I traveled with Selim to Long Island for a combo trip of business and family visit. The goal was to hit as many sea side/ resort towns to show and sell "Me Time" Selim's new line that is being sold only to specialty stores. So we packed up our rental car full of movies, mommy, daddy, Ally, Izzy too, and we were off. The trip took us from New Hampshire to Connecticut, to an hour and a half ferry ride over to Orient Point Long Island. Upon our arrival to Orient Point that is when the work started. We had fun shopping from shop to shop to find the perfect "Me Time" locations. The weather was a bit misty but it was still a blast to all be together.

The only downer to the trip was that I was suffering from laryngitis. It was very taxing for me to try to communicate with every one but we all survived.

After a day of travel and work we arrived at my aunt Susie's house in Northport. It is always so much fun to visit with family. Every one was home, Aunt Susie, Ramon, Cousin Becka, and Gavin. Alex was just in heaven. She so loves to play games with all of her cousins.

Friday Ally and I stayed behind with Aunt Susie while Selim hit up all of the small sea side villages along The Hampton's. After work we all head a great dinner all together at home with a nice warm fire. It was just perfect. We took time to go over our summer stories and share photos of all of our adventures. We had to keep it low key because Becka was gearing up for a big Crew meet in PA the next day and we were all hoping she would continue on her winning streak. Becka just turned 15 and she is rated to the be the #1 rower in the US among the 16 year olds, Way to go Becka! Keep it up, make sure they all eat your wake.

Saturday am we all had a traditional Dominican breakfast created by Aunt Susie and Uncle Ramon, complete with fried Cheese, mango, and Dominican coffee. It was Selim's first taste of what I grew up on. I do think he really enjoyed the good eats. After we wished Becka well on her Crew meet and sent Gavin off to school for his crew activities we traveled to South Hampton. Selim wanted to show Alex and I one of the towns he had hit the day before and some great new adventures for Alex to explore. We came upon Hank's Pumkintown. The had every thing Fall to do, Pick your own pumpkins, wagon rides, pony rides, corn maze, children's playgrounds (lots of them too) and tons of food. It was lots of fun had by all. We found some really amazing pumpkins some the size of Alex or larger.

We tried to convince Daddy we needed this one but he said "No To BIG!"

Tell me those are not much smaller, Ally almost rolled it

I spy and Ally in the Mums

After running and playing we all hopped back into the car and started to head back up north to New Hampshire. We had such a great trip visiting family, and having lots of fun, we hope to be able to see every one again very soon.