Labor Day Vacation!

Since the COVID pandemic took over our world in 2020, like so many others across the country, we haven’t been able to see a lot of our family. We spent the summer of 2020 in Georgia with Mario’s mom, and this year, Cristina’s mom came up to visit us in Pennsylvania. So we were SO excited to finally take another road trip to visit family!

We try to maximize our vacation time when we are fortunate enough to have it so we decided to drive overnight from NYC to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to stay with Cristina’s mom in her oceanside condo! The drive was supposed to take 10 hours (it felt like it took DECADES), but we made it safe and sound!

Since we’ve been here, we’ve taken our pups for walks on the beach, enjoyed the warm surf, and cooked some delicious meals to enjoy with our family. We enjoyed watching the start of the 2021 College Football season that started off with a big Georgia Bulldogs win! We were even fortunate enough to help save a wild shore bird, whom we affectionately nicknamed, Steve. Steve is a juvenile Clapper Rail who likely was separated from his family. Although we wish we could have adopted him too, we were able to get him to a wildlife rescue organization who will take good care of him 🙂