Guinevere.ca

One Great Summer

// September 1st, 2008 // life

Photo: Canadian Beach Volleyball Nationals at Ashbridges yesterday.

It’s September 1st and to me that marks the end of long days with warm weather and the start of fall. Allen insists that summers are longer down here in T.O. than what I’m used to up north and that there’s still a full month of warm days. But who knows if that will be true with the weather we’ve had this year, plus I can’t shake the association of September with long pants & sweaters. Anyway, today’s date has me thinking back over the summer and I have to say it’s been one of the best yet. Some highlights:

• Getting married to my sweetie of 13 1/2 years.
• The wedding also meant a lot of visits from family including my parents who were here just over 1/2 month(!) family from Dryden and lots of fun activities and vacation at that time.
• Celebrating my dad’s 80th birthday. Okay, technically this was spring, but… 80th birthday!
• Going up to Dryden again in early August and seeing my family that lives there plus family visiting from England.
• Going kiteboarding every chance we got. Allen learned to kiteboard this summer so now we enjoy it together.
• Spending lots of weekends outside of the city, exploring various places to kiteboard & relax in Southern Ontario.
• Beach volleyball! Okay so maybe we lost most of our games this summer, but I love our beach volleyball crew. I miss the twin towers & Heung though.
• So much visiting/dining/partying with fun-loving friends.

This last long weekend of the summer was good too. There was no wind for kiteboarding, but we still had a great time watching the air show, having family visit, getting Cary Jr. back in S. Ontario, seeing the best beach volleyball I’ve ever seen played in person, and attending one awesome house party.

I’m crossing my fingers that Allen is right on this whole September warm weather thing, but if not — we took every advantage and enjoyed one great summer.