Monday, July 20, 2015 How deep is the ocean....

Today Face Book sent me some excerpts I posted from three years ago. How nice to see pictures from that time, the time we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary, and my 80th birthday..What a special night and how really appropriate as had just been reading about how these days many Cinderella stories end with Cinderella making it wonderfully on her own, without Prince Charming.

I'm a romantic and having a lovely ending where both the prince and Cinderella ending their days together and in love how super, - well why not...but I know it is not always the way it ends and I know that our love was special and that we were a lucky couple.

I am thankful although let's face it, life happens, and we were not always "lucky", there were our ups and downs..not just with our tempers which sometimes ran high, but with our health,(sometimes scary as when both Mac and I had to have further testing for cancer, mine negative, Mac's positive..but he overcame the prostate cancer...

and of course the tearful goodbyes to parents, relations, and many many friends as they left this life which of course, happened along the many years we shared together...until the kind of last sad goodbye to my Prince.

But, last week our family vacation in Maine helped me and was so super. the reason I thought of it was to kind of go back in time when we (Mac and I) took our young family to Ocean Park..it was such a lovely time and now many years later, our growing family had the same wonderful beach experience , and so did I, but without the Prince Charming...

While there I thought about the many beach vacations we had through all those years..in fact we met at a beach, right here in Dorval -Pine Beach..and the beaches continued to entrance us throughout our lives, from Plattsburgh Beach N.Y.,Crystal Beach Ft. Erie,(our so-called courting years) our honeymoon at Miami Beach on through the many many beaches in Fla. too numerous to mention, our great fun the past 30 years at Lake Hughes, to the beaches of the Caribean, Cuba, Jamaica Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia not to forget the freezing beach in the North Sea of Scotland, Brighton Beach in England, Normandy Beach in France...even a strange little beach in Romania...

We certainly loved the beach, Mac tanned and I freckled and burned, but always the water and the Ocean were mesmerizing we loved those days and now I think of the ending words to that old song....

If I should ever lose you - how much would I cry
How deep is the Ocean, How high is the sky.

g'nite..