Journey with You

My parents came to visit us for a couple weeks. Cyrus’ last day at the daycare was June 27th. I took the day off so we could leave for NJ around noon. The daycare was having a picnic with all families in the evening. I wish we could go but I decided it’s my parents that were more important to Cyrus. I felt sad about the daycare’s closing and I did like the place and the owners. It was a shame that we couldn’t make it to the picnic. I guess it’s just how life is: you can’t be at two places at the same time. They did give us a group photo they took and that was nice. I’ll miss them all.

It was about 7 hours drive to my aunt’s house in NJ but the traffic got a little bad in Pennsylvania. A lot of constructions and a lot of trucks. We didn’t get there until almost 9pm. My parents were so thrilled to see us, especially Cyrus.

Though Cyrus saw my parents via webcam regularly, I didn’t know how much he really understood the whole thing. When we first arrived, he was very shy and all he wanted was me holding him. He got over it fairly quickly and started going back to his normal self, laughing and playing.

We stayed there on Saturday and drove back home on Sunday. It was so tiring to drive such a long distance in such a long time! But I had an important appointment downtown Monday morning thus we didn’t have a choice.

We left the house again over the July 4th holiday weekend for Montreal. My parents and I had never been there so I was very excited. I haven’t taken a road trip with my parents for a few years. It felt great to travel with them again.

After driving to NJ, the drive to Montreal wasn’t too bad. They are about the same distance from my house and the traffic was pretty reasonable on the way to Montreal. We left around nine o’clock int the morning and arrived in Montreal at around 4pm. Thanks to long summer day light, we still got to take a little rest and headed out.

View from our room:

The lady working at the hotel was very helpful and offered us some nice suggestions in terms of where to eat and what to see and how to get around. We had a nice dinner at this little Italian restaurant. Our waitress was FANTASTIC! She gave Cyrus some crayons and papers and she was very tentative to our needs. No complains or aggravation, always smiling. We’re so lucky!