Time for Vacations

Have you been watching the Hurricanes and the Oilers swap points tonight? The third period will begin soon and I hope that the Canes can finish it off tonight with their first Stanley Cup win. (it's 10:00 PM here now, but I don't know what time this blog will appear). I understand that a few fans have been a bit creative; for example, I heard this morning that one fan actually took a big oil drum, painted it silver and made a silver-looking cup and mounted it on top of the drum, then mounted all of this in the back of his pickup truck and rode around with hurricane flags flying. Hmmm. I think that's a bit much and a lot "red"! When asked what kind of celebration there would be tonight if the Canes won, the Rec Director said, "well, we plan to serve cake and ice cream." Cake and ice cream? Not much of a party compared to what is done if it were a basketball or football celebration, is it? Now, this is fine with me; at least there would be no destruction, etc., as there often is otherwise, with drunken fans, fights, and other somewhat violent activities. The baseball team at University of NC-Chapel Hill is playing in the finals in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday. If they should win the college finals, I wonder what kind of celebration Chapel Hill will have. Of course, I want them to win also.

School is officially out in this part of the country; teachers are now free to have their much-awaited vacations, and children are excited about the days with no homework. As for my family, one of my daughters and her family will be going on vacaton soon; my son from CA will be visiting us in early July; my oldest daughter has already taken one trip to the islands and will soon be taking a week-long beach trip; my younger son just works all the time and has no definite plans for a vacation yet. Hubby is beginning to get anxious to travel too, so we may be heading out in a few days for an abbreviated trip. We do have 5 trips planned before the end of the year though. I'm ready for a change of scenery. If you are planning a trip soon, I pray that you will stay safe.