Putting The “Stay” in Staycation

stay·ca·tion

/ˌstāˈkāSHn/

noun

INFORMAL

1. a vacation spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.

   
   

   ✔️ Discovered new-to-me restaurants and coffee shop

   ✔️ Walked the entire west side of the Meewasin Trail

   ✔️ Spent time at the lake

   ✔️ Spent time in Bredenbury
   ✔️ Spent an inordinate amount of time and money on morning lattes at Homequarters Coffee Shop

   ✔️ Enjoyed doing crossword puzzles and Word Jumbles in the morning newspaper  

   ✔️  Walked

   ✔️  Got some runs in

   ✔️  Got back into yoga

   ✔️  Enjoying the most unexpectedly wonderful experience of waking up every morning and coming to the slightly delayed realization that this is how mornings will be from now on....faced on my own terms!!  😂

   ✔️  Read three books (Blackout, Into The Water and Rupture)

   ✔️  Continued movie viewings with Kim and Carter on Friday’s

   ✔️  Realized I am not counting down the days to anything!!!!

   ✔️  Thai massage

   ✔️  Applied, interviewed, orientated and then denied the chance to volunteer at new Children’s Hospital
   ✔️  Won’t be doing the LLI Tutoring in the Fall 

   ✔️  Attended Randy Holfeld’s funeral and Jerald Theissen and Mrs. Holmlund’s internments
   ✔️  Enjoyed an evening in Elbow with the Holmizones, an afternoon at the Ex with Zoe and Eli and an afternoon visit with Mona
   ✔️  Enjoyed inflatable stand up paddle boarding
   ✔️  Had a  great day with Millar at the Children’s Museum, the Bess, Edo’s and the Avenges movie
   ✔️...and of course, a shave and a haircut the day before leaving for San Diego.
   
   So, on the eve of my departure for delayed usual trip to San Diego, I can honestly say that a Saskatoon Summer was super!!