Granddaughter's Visit

Had a wonderful weekend with my 3 beautiful granddaughters, the end of May. They came to stay with me for Apple Blossom weekend, the first time they have all been with me with no parents around. Teri-Lynn and Scott were in Cape Breton for a Relay Race over the Cabot Trail (Teri-Lynn did wonderful, she is so active and in shape, it's wonderful).
Anyway, I met them in Bedford, where we had some supper and the girls changed vehicles from Mom and Dad's to mine. We thought there may be some tears or anguish, but not a boo out of any of them. Holly is a softee and very much Mama's girl, but she was fine with her Grammy. We made it back to the Valley by about 8:30 p.m. and went straight to the center of town for the Apple Blossom Festival Fireworks, scheduled to start at 10. It was a fair bit of a walk from where we parked at the arena to the ball field for the fireworks. When we got there, there was a band playing and thousands of people around waiting. We found a place to sit on the hill, the girls played with cameras and my cell phone and were very patient. The fireworks started 15 minutes late, and were very short (only 5 minutes), but they were lovely. Then it was the long trek back to the car, and the even longer wait to drive out of town. Home about midnight.
Saturday morning everyone got up when they wanted to. There were no bad dreams, or waking up and moving to other beds or anything. We had a great breakfast, cereal, bacon, eggs, toast, mmmmmm. Then it was all get ready to go to the Grand Street Parade. Trent, Vicky and Cullen went to the morning Children's Parade, but I knew we wouldn't get in to town for 10 a.m. for that, sleepy people that we were. So, we went to the later one. We parked on Brooklyn Street to have easy exit from town, then walked over to town. It was quite a warm day, temps in the mid 20's. We watched most of the parade, sat in front of the fire hall with some friends from my work.
After several hours the girls had enough and were hot. So we decided to head out ahead of the crowd. We made a good decision. We headed over to Centreville to Trent's for the rest of the afternoon and for supper. The girls had a really fun time playing with Cullen. He loved having all these girls there to play with, they pushed him on the swing, wheeled him on his bike, pushed him in the wheelbarrow, and played in the sandbox. All this was mostly in the shade so it was very comfortable to sit out under the trees and watch them play. When we went in the house it didn't stop, played with the cars and trucks and watched tv and held Cullen in their laps, and he was quite happy to be in their laps too. It was wonderful to see them all getting along so well together, not a squabble or a tear to be seen. After supper (of spaghetti and garlic bread, mmmm), they played more until it was bath and bed time for Cullen. We were home for about 8:30 and settled in to watch a movie.
Sunday was lazy, again a night with no problems or little girls being homesick, until about 1 p.m. or so, when we decided it was time to get dressed and packed and ready to head for the Scotian Gold Fun Day. We got on the road about 2:30 and had a fun couple of hours at the Fun Day. Then went into town for some ice cream and start on the trip back to Truro. Teri and Scott got back from Cape Breton sometime in the afternoon. We got there about 6:30, in time to go see Teri play a game of Ball Hockey at the rink. Then I headed back to the valley, tired but very happy at the time we spent. I soooo love my girls.