Vacation Thoughts
We have taken our first family vacation since my mother died in July. Our destination was Skytop , which should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me or reads this blog. It's been our go to vacation spot for many years and seasons. It feels like home, as most of the staff know us and we are treated as family. (I'd like to think we treat our gracious hosts with the same friendliness as we always receive.) This trip was fun, but also bittersweet. As I know it, my maternal grandfather first came to Skytop in the early 1950s (I'm guessing the date) for some sort of work-related conference (no idea what that might have been.) During the summers, the family used to vacation at Cape Cod, but in the summer of 1954, my grandmother's mother was ill so there was no vacation. Sometime after her death in August of that year (or so I'm assuming), my grandfather brought his family here. It was closer to home than Massachusetts. And so it was a death that first b