Monday, August 22, 2011

Saturday

Then came Saturday...
(sorry it took me so long to finally get to Saturday....see previous post if you are lost!)

We had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to make our flight to pick up the children.
Now, normally that would have been hard....and it was for about 30 seconds, and then we both realized what we were going to do. We got up, took showers, finished the last minute packing items, and off we were. I think we were both so excited to become a complete family again!

We took the flight...(hurry up!), split between getting the suitcases (me) and renting the car (my husband) and getting on our way. Our split system worked great seeing as by the time I got the suitcases and made the trek to the rental car counter, he was signing on the dotted line and off we went. The drive took about an hour and a half. (hurry up!)
Of course the scenery was beautiful, Switzerland always is, but we seemed to almost not even notice. We were more looking at which car was going to get in our way (hurry up!) and how we could pass them!

Then we got to camp, and there they were, sitting watching a movie. Our cool, collected son waved and said hi. Our daughter's eyes grew about 3 times their size, a huge smile crossed her face and she gave her friend a hug and was in our arms in no time flat! The feeling was mutual from both of us to both of them. It felt so good to be back with them, hearing all their stories...
even our son talked quite a bit about his adventure. They both learned a lot...kept busy and had us entertained during the drive to Zurich, where we were spending the night.

What a great feeling...our children with us, the scenery, which we finally saw again beautiful, the air crisp, the raspberries we bought at the local store so sweet...ah, in our heaven!

And they both thanked us for letting them go to this camp...
and asked if could they go back next year.
Can you see the smile on our faces?

4 comments:

mythopolis said...

That was sweet to read...the reunion with the children, and they were excited to see you, and also wanting more of these experiences they have just had. Made me miss my kids (now big grown-ups) and watching them grow more and more independent. Cool!!

Arnab Majumdar said...

Life really should be an adventure. No, wait, let me rephrase. Life should stay as the adventure it was, when we were growing up, and there were stories all around us, even while our parents fought traffic to get to their destinations.

I hope the kids had a great time on their camp...


Cheers,
Arnab Majumdar on SribbleFest.com

Stickup Artist said...

That is the sweetest post I ever read!!

FancyHorse said...

Such a sweet reunion! I'm so glad your children were happy at their camp!