I’ve been thinking a lot about vacation today.  With a 3yo and a 6yo our options are limited.  With a incredibly small budget we are limited even further.  We have a 2 week window of time when nobody is in school(including dh) and before day camp begins.  Since we don’t do the tourist thing very well I’ve been trying to come up with alternatives.  I stumbled across something that seems like it would be a neat way to enhance a driving trip.  It’s called Geocaching.  The idea is that somone leaves a log book and, usually, some type of item in a location.  The GPS coordinates are then logged on the geocaching website.  So with information from the website and a gps unit you go and hunt down the secret spot.  There are 40 of these spots within 5 miles of my house. 

That gives us some activity on the trip but does not solve the problem of where to go.  Do we go it alone or stay with friends?  Do we go North or South?  Someplace new or an old favorite?  On the shore or inland?

I’m sort of in the mood for camping except I don’t know about tenting it.  I wish we had a) a pop-up camper and b)a vehicle to tow it.  But we don’t, so that settles that.  I’m thinking that our options are as follows:

1. Lake Ontario - friends have vacation home there
2. Deleware/Maryland - stay with a cousin
3. Swans Island, ME - friends of family live here
4. Rent a cabin - could be any number of locations on the east coast
5. Forget the whole thing and treat ourselves to something we can use all year round.

Lots of years we have opted for #5  I think this year, though, we really need the time away.  We may do #1 at another time during the summer with the family that owns the house.  So the plans are developing.

I’m going to shop for a gps unit.  The Geocaching thing sounds like a fun way to get us out of the house and doing something interesting together as a family.

As far as knitting goes, I finished one Regia Bamboo sock, am coming to the end of the Radiance Lace Headband, and am struggling through the i-cord for the booga bag.  Pictures tomorrow, I hope.  New yarn from [Webs] was shipped yesterday, so I have that to look forward to either tomorrow or Friday, yay!

My one year anniversary of learning to knit is coming up on June 1.  Ok, so I’m not sure that it was exactly on June 1 that I learned to knit.  But it was right around then so I’m going to go with it since it’s easy to remember.

The month of May always seems to be one of my most productive months of the year.  I don’t know what it is.  Maybe it’s because the days are longer and the weather is warm but not hot. Whatever the reason, I’d like to take advantage of this little spurt of productivity.  I ordered an enormous amout of yarn from [Webs] last week and I have projects planned for most of what I ordered.

 Here is a quick rundown of what I hope to have started before the end of the month.  It would be insanity to think I could have it all finished, though.

1. Booga Bag - In Progress
2. Regia Garter Rib Socks - In Progress
3. Radiance Lace Headband - In Progress
4. Elizabeth I Scarf from Knit Picks using Alpaca Cloud
5. Clementine Shawlette from Interweave Knits Spring 2007 using Louisa Harding Grace-Silk & Wool
6. Icarus Shawl from Interweave Knits Summer 2006
7. After Dark Nightie from Mason Dixon Knitting using Berger du Nord Belle
8. Blue Suede Bikini from Sexy Little Knits using Berocco Suede

We will have to wait and see how I do as the month progresses.