Each month, Project Snapshot captures memories from the past weeks - either with a camera, words, or both.
Time passes in the blink of an eye - see which treasured memories will join the year's collection:
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My Snapshots
Things have been out-of-control busy these past four months, so I'm hoping to catch up and get back into a routine...
What have we been up to? Take a look and see:
Another season, another show, and this was the biggest and best yet: Sweeney Todd. She was the only kid in the cast (aside from Toby) and was just in the ensemble, but she killed it (pun intended) and even won "Best Ensemble Performer" at the theater's annual awards show for the past year's season!
Another year, another massive road trip, which was also the biggest yet, clocking in at over 16,000 miles! Here's what our topper and the back of the car looked like in preparation for 5 weeks of traveling around Atlantic Canada.
It's not a road trip without drama, and this time, we encountered it on day 2, while we were still just getting to the "real trip" part of our adventure. It was quite the adventuresome day (& a story for another time), but we turned out to have 2 defective tires...which blew out our struts...which resulted in our having to replace our entire shocks/struts/all 4 tires in the middle-of-nowhere-PA before we could get back on the road...fun times...
Once we spent approximately 15 bazillion $ on car repair, we skipped past our first day's sightseeing stops and got back on schedule, visiting New Brunswick (& the fabulous Hopewell Rocks) as our first destination.
Next, we met up with fabulous friends from OH (who yes, survived traveling with the Healys) and explored our next main hub: Prince Edward Island.
PEI was followed by Nova Scotia, where we packed in visits to historical (site of the Acadian deportation)...
...gorgeous Peggy's Cove...
...and took a hike in the clouds (on the island's "most scenic" trail) in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
A week later, we said goodbye to our friends, loaded our car onto the giant ferry, and sailed off to arrive in rugged Newfoundland the next morning. Our first major spot to explore there was hiking over the Earth's mantle, in the Tablelands section of Gros Morne National Park.
We then headed allllllll the way up to the tip of the Northern Peninsula, to set up our tent with a view of the Arctic Circle, on what felt like the edge of the world.
While up there, we visited L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (Viking/first European settlement on North America)...
...and managed to nab our own iceberg chunks that were floating by.
From there, we took another (quick) ferry trip over to Labrador, which got even more desolate...
Then we returned to Newfoundland, where we began our trek eastward across the island. We saw the airport in Gander (check out this story if you don't know what makes this place special).
We continued to enjoy the province's barren landscape in Terra Nova National Park.
We experienced the grandeur of a bog by the sea on the Bonavista peninsula...
...we spent a morning literally surrounded by puffins in Elliston...
...we continued to enjoy incredible cliffside hikes...
...colorful, quaint towns...
...and incomparable, solitary views...
We finished up our stay in the "big" capital city of St. John's before...
...driving onto the "long ferry" (16 hours!) to head back to Nova Scotia and then mosey on home.
We hit the ground running literally hours after our arrival home, where Gv donned a ghillie suit for her role as one of the hidden folk in a production of Frozen, Jr....
...which was immediately (the rehearsals overlapped!) followed by Gv becoming an Oompa Loompa in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory...
...which is where I also made my stage debut as Grandma Georgina!
And that's what has put me behind in all the things! Hopefully things will be slowing down and be a bit more manageable for the forseeable future...I wonder what the next month has in store for us...
What were your favorite memories from this past month or two (or four)? I'd love to hear! Either leave a comment below or email me at lisahealy (at) outlook (dot) com.
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