Today woudl be Sam’s 31st birthday. I woke today (and many days) wondering what he’d be up to by now.
Our custom is to climb a mountain like Bolton on Sam’s birthday and the day he died. We go up to the fire tower there and put a samstone there.. soemtimes we light a firework. SOemtime we go with others.. soemtimes by ourselves. When we’re not in Vermont, we ask folks to mark Sams birthday in whatever way they’d like… Today we’re in London and heading to Portugal. We’re in the middle of a great trip, we’ll all be together.. and that always brings us even closer to Sam..
Happy birthday my son. We love you and miss you and think about you all the time !
We woke early finished packing , closed up the very nice airbnb and headed to the airport.. We got there early and used the extra time at the airport to try out all of the lounges we could get in to.. Kinda fun if you like crowded noisy places.. at least we found coffee !
THe flight to Portugal was quick.. and we had no trouble meeting up with Max and Becky who’d gotten there an hour earlier.. We picked up the car and headed to Ericera.
We checked out our excellent AirBnB.. checked out the hotel where Brit and Brans wedding is happening then went in to check out the town of Ericera.. It’s a really sweet surfing town about an hour west of lisbon.. Super
We placed a samstone together out in a hole on the stone wharf which felt good !
we went back to the hopuse and made a ‘cake’ for sam out of the stuff we had around, cookies, dulce de leche , and sour patch rope 🙂
It felt so good having the family together …
We love you Sam !
-me