Days with the Dorans

 We have arrived and rather than do a day by day,  I figured I'd just capture some of the highlights (in my opinion of course) when I think back to another great vacay with Nana, Papa, the Drapals and of course us Dorans. I started EVERY day with (at least) a 5 mile run. Papa joined me for most of them! We did have some yucky weather so I did do a couple runs on the treadmill. Still it felt good to log some miles and I LOVE running on the beach with my music~ I sometimes wonder how I ran for so long with just my thoughts... I mean I do a lot of thinking still but it's nice to have music in the background.  Of course there was LOTS of pool time! We were worried a bit because we thought the pool was going to be closed for painting! Thankfully it wasn't~ but the lazy river was (which was a bummer since my kids LOVE the lazy river). I think they had fun making due though!  It's never super warm in April. The kids don't seem to mind but now that Joe ...

 We did things a bit different for spring break this year. We didn't feel pressure to leave at the crack of dawn because we stopped in West Virginia for the night. We started by dropping Marty off at a new place. The best thing about it was there were cameras so we could see Marty 24/7 which I'll admit, I checked just about 24/7. Gordie was there too but they left after us so Marty was there for a bit without him. After we dropped off Marty, wouldn't you know that our check engine light went off!!! UGH! I didn't really care (or tried not to)- but it was in the back of my mind. My car is old now but we decided to go for it and see how far we could get. We got to WV which was our planned stop and wouldn't you know- one of our rooms was 119!! (Room 119 is my classroom.) We got some beer and watched our brackets get busted but we had fun! My folks got a room too so everyone had a space in the bed which was awesome! I love little adventures like this! We kn...