Updates on summer 2011

You certainly had an eventful summer, though expensive. I, too, spent more than I should have on a wedding shower for my great-niece and graduation gifts (money) for another great-niece and a great-nephew. After all, they only graduate once and I hope my niece has only one wedding! You can never tell these days! I haven't gotten to go anywhere because of financial concerns. My kids tell me to go ahead and spend what I've got saved but I'm sure they'd regret it when I run out and come live with them! I hope you get the job you want!

We are off to Scotland to see a couple of myLotters later this week! Then we will go to Singapore in January hopefully. Yes, time does go quickly when you are enjoying yourself and very slowly when you are not!!! You all look very happy at the wedding. Your tunr next?

We are just coming out of winter here and just started the spring season. This winter has been particularly wet and cold for us this year. Nothing much has changed on our side of the world and I do agree that if we are having a great time time does seem to fly a lot quicker although the days, week, months and years do go by in a hurry and I am still trying to save money

This summer was not so great for me I stayed home mostly. I do feel when you are having a good time, time just flies so quickly, I've had a bad summer everything is going so slowly. I hope next summer ill be able to gout and have fun.

We did not have any long trips this summer because we didn't really have much time. We did take two trips we had not planned very far ahead for, and they did cost more than we should have spent, but we had not much choice about either of them as to timing. The first trip was for a politcal training session in Sacramento for a day, but because the drive was long we left the day before and came home the day after, so that meant two nights in an expensive hotel. I didn't even want to go, and there wasn't time or good enough weather to take any side trips I might have enjoyed. We learned what we went to learn, but it was more a work trip than a pleasure trip. The second trip was one we both were looking forward to. It was for a church reunion in Los Angeles with all the people we had known in a previous church. It was wonderful seeing old friends again and meeting the spouses and children of those I had known as children in my Sunday School classes. I hadn't seen many of them since they were teens. It was a five-hour trip, and we had promised to pick up the founding pastor of the church and his wife, neither of whom was confidnet enough to drive in Los Angeles traffic anymore. Like us, they lived quite far from the city where the rerunion was, but they were on our way. Unfortunately, because they are in their eighties, they got tired before the reunion was more than half over, and we had to leave before some of our friends got there and we didn't have enough time to talk to everyone we wanted to. Again, we stayed in a motel for two nights, though I was more comfortable in Simi Valley than in Sacramento, since I had lived near Simi Valley for several years and knew my way around. I was able to go back to the Reagan Library on Sunday and take some pictures I had not had time to take when we were there in June. So this trip was more a pleasure trip. Time dragged on our first trip because of the long drive, getting lost, and the fact that we were really sitting and listening to training all day and we weren't having a particularly good time. On the second trip, time just flew by because we were with friends all the time. The founding pastor and his wife took us to dinner both Friday and Saturday night, so we had long conversations with them. I only wish the trips had not been so expensive with cost of gasoline and lodging.

We did not have any long trips this summer because we didn't really have much time. We did take two trips we had not planned very far ahead for, and they did cost more than we should have spent, but we had not much choice about either of them as to timing. The first trip was for a politcal training session in Sacramento for a day, but because the drive was long we left the day before and came home the day after, so that meant two nights in an expensive hotel. I didn't even want to go, and there wasn't time or good enough weather to take any side trips I might have enjoyed. We learned what we went to learn, but it was more a work trip than a pleasure trip. The second trip was one we both were looking forward to. It was for a church reunion in Los Angeles with all the people we had known in a previous church. It was wonderful seeing old friends again and meeting the spouses and children of those I had known as children in my Sunday School classes. I hadn't seen many of them since they were teens. It was a five-hour trip, and we had promised to pick up the founding pastor of the church and his wife, neither of whom was confidnet enough to drive in Los Angeles traffic anymore. Like us, they lived quite far from the city where the rerunion was, but they were on our way. Unfortunately, because they are in their eighties, they got tired before the reunion was more than half over, and we had to leave before some of our friends got there and we didn't have enough time to talk to everyone we wanted to. Again, we stayed in a motel for two nights, though I was more comfortable in Simi Valley than in Sacramento, since I had lived near Simi Valley for several years and knew my way around. I was able to go back to the Reagan Library on Sunday and take some pictures I had not had time to take when we were there in June. So this trip was more a pleasure trip. Time dragged on our first trip because of the long drive, getting lost, and the fact that we were really sitting and listening to training all day and we weren't having a particularly good time. On the second trip, time just flew by because we were with friends all the time. The founding pastor and his wife took us to dinner both Friday and Saturday night, so we had long conversations with them. I only wish the trips had not been so expensive with cost of gasoline and lodging.

Hello elitess. This summer vacation I worked a part-time job and made some extra money like I did in the summer of 2011. When it is an extra job for the summer vacation, it seems to be a less tense job from my normal job and I like it. I worked hard during the summer vacation, but I felt very happy when I got my earnings and my effort for my work was worth it. When I finished my extra work, I had about twenty days' rest at home with my family. Time does fly fast whenever you feel like having a rest or work. I travelled all the way back to my hometown after I finished my extra work. It was a hectic summer vacation, but I was happy. Thanks for the discussion, elitess.

Hi Elitess, Wow you packed some things in over the summer and weddings and holidays are never cheap. The older I am getting the more the years are flying by anyway but this years summer leave was three weeks long and now I am back at work I really could do with another three weeks off to do all the things I had planned to do and didn't get round to doing. What I did manage to do whilst I was off though was take my son to Dawlish airshow, visit my mother who was in the UK for a week from Spain visiting my brother (she stayed with me last time) acquire a new addition to my family of pets a beautiful chocolate labrador. I also have a wedding that I need to travel to in a couple of weeks time. Hope all is well with you. Huggles. Ellie :D