Family Week 2005: Three years ago.

And just to continue our little trip down memory lane, here are photos of our very first Family Week trip. Darius was two years old.

Family Week 2006: Two years ago.

Here is a photo slideshow from Family Week 2006 two years ago. Darius was three years old.

Family Week 2007: One year ago.

I thought I’d post a photo slideshow from Family Week in 2007, one year ago.

“I don’t wanna go home”: a retrospective look at Family Week.

We contributed another guest post on the Family Equality Council’s Blog.

“I don’t wanna go home, I don’t wanna! It’s boring there and there’s nothing to do and there’s no beach! I wanna stay in Ptown!” Unfortunately, that’s not my five year old son complaining, that’s my forty eight year old partner. And I really can’t complain because, frankly, I agree with him.

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Last Dance

On Friday evening we attended the “R Family” Dance and Kiddie Bop sponsored by R Family Vacations. Darius had been in a cranky mood until he started ingesting large quantities of snacks and M&M’s that were freely available for the grabbing whenever Dad blinked. His mood perked up but the chances of getting any decent dinner into him did not. He worked the dance floor trying to negotiate more glow sticks for himself and connected a long chain of them together.

They announced that Family Week was already scheduled for next summer. It will be Aug. 1, 2009 through Aug. 8, 2009. Looking forward to it!!

Family Week 2008 Slideshow

The Family Equality Council has posted a picture slideshow about Family Week 2008 on their blog.

Darius made one of the shots, and toward the end there is a picture of the three of us at the Beach Picnic.

Tower Climb

This morning after breakfast we decided to climb the tower in the center of Provincetown. I certainly got my excercise for today. Darius didn’t seem the least bit winded, and even asked to go up second time. Maybe next year.

Yesterday

Yes, I know I didn’t post anything yesterday. We hung out on the beach most of the day and the pictures look exactly the same as previous beach pictures. Here’s a picture of Darius and I.

Dad’s Gathering

On Wednesday evening we attended the Family Week Dad’s Gathering.  It was a good opportunity to connect with old friends and make some new ones.  We’ve always enjoyed the Dad’s Gathering and attended each of the first two years we came to Family Week. Last year they did not schedule this event and we really missed it.  Glad to see it back again!

Children’s Programming

On Tuesday afternoon Brian took Darius to the children’s programming put on for younger children. During the program, the kids worked on creating collages representing their families. So Darius cut out pictures to represent each of us and I think Brian helped him with drawing in the cats. Each part of the collage was labeled with each of our names.

Interestingly, Darius picked out a picture of someone in a wheelchair to represent me. Brian asked him why he chose that picture when Daddy doesn’t use a wheelchair. His amusing response was, “I picked that picture because Daddy likes to sit all the time”.

I guess I have to get up more.

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