View from our apartment in Portugal, originally uploaded by Cathi O'Neill.
This is the view from our living room in our apartment we rented for the week. You can't see it in the distance in the photo but there is a view of the ocean as well. The lovely pool was a short walk away, and we had access to a kids pool and play area in a neighboring complex. We felt we got great place for a totally reasonable price!
DH's brother and partner and their two sons, Merlin and Noah, live just down the road, and the kids had great fun getting to know them better. Look at Aine and Merlin holding hands. They did that quite often, it was too cute!!
We went on beach barbeques, a water zoo with dolphin shows, the local zoo where Aine saw her favorite flamingos, saw the local city Lagos, went to the end of the world (OK, the westernmost frontier of Europe, last sight of land for Columbus for a good while!) I swam in the ocean twice, tried to swim every day, read one whole book (The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd) and got halfway through another, finished a doll quilt and got through the heel gusset of my Pomatomus sock. We also had a few late night meals with family, and I was able to get drunk one night (which for me entails about 3 or 4 drinks over the course of a night! I'm a lightweight with drinking, if not literally!!) Not bad for a week.
I took a silly fun photo for the vacation photo contest on Summer of Socks. Here is my sock at the "end of the world" beyond this point there be dragons!
Today is our wedding anniversary, 12 years now, how time flies!! We got married on a blistering hot day in Woodstock Virginia. The wedding was at a lovely victorian inn called the River'd Inn. I changed out of my wedding dress and into a swim suit while listening to our wedding band playing traditonal Irish music...pretty laidback wedding, lol!!
I'll be mostly unpacking, washing clothes, and working on some quilting. We have both decided that today is our first day of Weight Watchers again, so Dave will be cooking a nice but healthy meal tonight!!
OK...so better get going, hope to layer my doll quilt for hand quilting (have fallen in love with hand quilting!) and cutting out some more ocean waves blocks...and unpacking...and....
11 comments:
Please email me and tell me the name of this place!!! It's gorgeous and it looks like you had a fab time!!!
What a wonderful vacation! It looks like paradise! And Happy Anniversary!
I can't imagine a more perfect vacation than this! Beautiful pictures! And happy anniversary!!
Wow, you found a great location for a holiday. The weather seems great. Sadly, we have had a lot of rain today, here in the Netherlands.
Isn't hand quilting great. I find it a lot easier then machine quilting.
Hi, welcome home again! What a beautiful place to have a holiday--I'm blinded by that blue sky, sparkling water. Happy Anniversary! :o)
Sounds like a perfect vacation! It must have been hard to come back, but what wonderful memories you have. I liked the Mermaid Chair.
12 years, holy cow, where did that go? Weren't we just college students together a few years ago, LOL? Of course, my last anniversary was 14 and I have a kid coming up to 10, so I don't know why I'm surprised!
Happy Anniversary! Your views look amazing, especially that first photo. Great shot of the travelling sock too.
What a beautiful spot. Happy Anniversary! We just celebrated our 6th. How time flies! Your little ones are too cute. Your socks also look great.
Wow, wonderful vacation spot. That pool is something else! I loved the pictures of the children, they are all so sweet looking, especially that last one with the flower. And I had to laugh at your sock picture!
wow, just gorgeous pictures, the blue water is incredible!
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