# 24

   .  .  .  and beyond  

 Visiting

We were treated like royals while we spent time with P and R in Fredericton.  They slept in bunk beds and put us in their king.  OMGoodness, with another family with 2 kids already staying with them, I felt so guilty, but it was a really comfortable bed.

Their three boys, and the young boy visiting, made a fort on, under, and around the pool table downstairs,  I think they used up every couch cushion and pillow in the basement for their beds, and all the luggage was hauled out of storage and became dividing walls, so each kid had their own "room" in their fort .  Rather clever. There were the parents and the teenage daughter to accommodate as well, so sleeping arrangements were . . . interesting to say the least.

We had a lobster feast, I mean, they brought home a cooler full of cooked lobster, and we had a feast.  I've never seen anyone crack through one of those things as fast as R could. He could be a pro lobster cracker.  Let it be known that I was the worst at the table, and there were youngsters cracking shells.

We spent the next afternoon at the local swimming hole, watching the boys enjoy the day.  I could get used to this lounging at the beach stuff.