Memorial Day Weekend · 2026
A weekend in a castle
with the best neighbors ever
Three nights, round tables in turrets, the kind of light that makes a place feel like it has always been waiting for you.
Some weekends rearrange the calendar around themselves.
This is the one we'll remember when we say "the year we went to the castle."
What follows is the weekend, hopefully in some kind of order, with a few things left out and a great deal left between the frames — because some moments don't fit in pictures, and you were there for those.
Arrival
The cars, the kids, the first photos of the weekend — taken about ninety seconds after we hit the road.
In the water and on the water — kid takeover
Slow mornings, then the kids took the paddleboards and the hot tub for themselves while the light held.
All the sunshine, smiles, desserts and drinks you could dream of
The middle day. Golden hour into candlelight, mocktails for the kids and cocktails by the fire. Chocolate lava cakes, then freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, then s'mores — a sugar high that ran long past dark. A night that didn't really end until the next morning.
All good things come to an end
We slept it off. Then a yummy breakfast of fresh homemade dosa with eggs and ALL the other yummy leftovers, enjoyed in the stone archway.
Everyone on the steps
Twenty-some people, one set of stone steps, and the kind of photograph that only happens once.
Thank you for the weekend.
For the food, the endless cooking, for always helping watch out for and bring back the children who rowed away, for the long chats and lovely laughter, and for being the kind of neighbors who make a long weekend feel like a small lifetime.
Until the next one. — Sarah