Where have I been?

We have been gone for most of the past 3 weeks. My oldest son graduated from High School on June 13th

and June 14th we left to go to upstate NY. We got to Pulaski on June 15th and set up our tent and stayed at my parents site.

During our stay in Upstate NY-we went to a few places. I am from south of Pulaski (which is on Lake Ontario) from a small town called Pompey. We went to look at our old house that we moved out of over 20 years ago and went to the water falls that I totally didn't appreciate when we lived there. This is Pratts Falls, it is just over 100 ft tall, and was less than 2 miles from my house. I used to ride my bike up there to play in the creek (not near the falls).

Since we were in NY we decided to visit our best friends in CT-only 5.5 hours away. We had a great time with them and I got to go to a new grocery store (yes I have a problem) Stew Leonards. Prices were not as bad as I thought they would be, they were actually cheaper than HT and the regular meat prices were the same as some of HT's SALE prices. Lucky for me I try to only buy the sale items at HT.

On our way back we stopped by my husbands old stomping grounds, Catskill NY. They have this anniversary thing going on and have these most adorable cats decorated up and down the main street.

This one was my favorite.

I actually took about 30 pictues but I won't put them all on my blog. My family has a cat problem and I just thought they were so stinkin cute!

We got back from NY and were home for 3 days then left again for St Louis to visit my sister and go to the Pokemon NATIONALS. Yes, they still do Pokemon. Not my cup of tea (Ok, I make fun of my family that does do it) but since it was in St Louis and my sister lives there we made the trek.

The money for this vacation and all things that went with the vacation actually came from our vacation fund which was almost entirely funded by the rebates I do. We had over $800 in the bank from my rebates-which is good since we ate out on average 1+ times a day. Money was getting tight for the second leg of our trip so we took the camping grill and made burgers and mac n cheese at a rest stop for lunch and went out to dinner. On the way home we made PB+J and had dinner at our house (BLTs with my GARDEN FRESH TOMATOES+LETTUCE!).