the HillTap Festival & an unexpected turn of events

As if we needed ANOTHER event on our calendar in July, we joined friends in Ellicottville for the HillTap Festival at Spruce Lake! To be fair, stopping in EVL on our way home from DC after our Cabo trip decreases our drive by one hour, so it made sense 😉

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OBX 2021

We joined my family for a week in the Outer Banks and had SUCH a great time. Our trip brought back memories of vacationing there when I was a kid, and I think it renewed a desire in all of us adults to begin these beach trips again, especially now that there are two littles to enjoy them.

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summer vacation 2020

I don’t think a vacation has ever felt more like an escape from reality than ours did this summer. OK, perhaps I should take that back. Our month-long European trips of yesteryear certainly felt like an escape, but I’m not sure we ever NEEDED an escape as much as we did this time.
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