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1 novembre What is a Vacation?During our two week hiatus from real life...I took the opportunity to examine what I really think about vacations. I don't think much of them, frankly. Oh, sure, there's the get-away-from-your-house-and-your-usual-routine-and-do-some-stuff-you-wouldn't-get-to-do-every-day part of it that is...interesting...but all of that, I believe, comes at a price. This vacation, that price was...vacation. Truthfully, we can look back on our time away and comment that we had fun. We did so much...in the midst of all of that, we have to be able to extract some fun from the memory banks. And please understand me here...I know that we were so blessed to be able to do what we did. I think we could have done it better. That's all. We have never done vacation like this before. We've almost never done vacation before, frankly. It's all new. There's an art to it. We haven't learned it yet. Low Points: (listing these first, so that I can end with the positives) : : Awful hotel room in Largo. Ugh. : : Texts from my mom alerting us to the fact that Chelsea (our 12-year-old Golden Retriever) was in really, really bad shape...and they weren't sure she was going to make it until we got home. : : Stupid. Freaking. Camera. : : Finding out it would cost us $600 to ship home the 140 pounds of wild boar Seth shot on a hunting trip with his dad the first day we got there. Realizing we would have to figure something else out... : : Tired, tired kids. Who am I kidding?? Tired, tired adults!! Without considering the amount of running, the different surroundings, lack of normal betimes, etc, the serious downside of having a bed that you absolutely love is that you despise sleeping in anything other than your bed, because you know that you won't sleep like you do in your own bed. Maybe we should go back to the uncomfortable, sagging-in-the-middle mattress so that we can look forward to hotels!! Oh, and snoring. Snoring really messes with adults' sleep. Especially this adult. : : Whiney kids. Lainie was SURE that every ride would be too scary for her. EVERY SINGLE RIDE. Reasa was positive she was getting dehydrated. I mean, it was 90, and we were in the sun. The drama of pre-adolescence might make me lose my mind yet. Bryson...he just flipped out whenever I didn't respond immediately when he spoke to me. Do you know how difficult it is to respond immediately to every request or comment in Disney World surrounded by thousands of people and your husband and three kids?? : : Frustration over job things while I was away. Just too soon in the job to be away for two weeks. Sigh. : : An unexpected visitor on our vacation. : : My lack of patience with the kids' Webkinz voices on the way home. Oy. Wanted to scream!!! High Points: : : The kids not figuring out that we were "doing Disney" until we had pulled the van into the resort where we stayed and Seth said to them, "Guys. Do you understand that we're in Disney World? That we're here for four days? That you're going to Disney World?" I have video of us going under the "Welcome to Walt Disney World" sign with absolutely no reaction from the children. I guess we played that one a bit too well. : : The beach. Gosh, I love the beach. I need a beach. : : Moments at Disney. I so enjoy Disney. Seth made the comment that he realized as we were walking through Epcot that much of this Disney vacation was really about me. Hmm. I don't know that I would go that far...I just expected that the kids would love it as much as I do. : : Spending time with my in-laws and nephews. It's a tangled web there...but they love us so much. We can't walk into that house without knowing how much they love us. And we so love them. : : The feeling that we were spoiling our kids. Honestly, it is one of my favorite feelings. : : My nephew was born last night while I was driving through Virginia. He's beautiful! And perfect. : : Driving from Zephyrhills, FL to Williamsport, PA with six stops for food, bathrooms, and gasoline in 19 hours flat. : : Unexpectedly great hotel rooms on the ride down and back. Love last minute travelocity finds!! Especially with good continental breakfast plans. : : Safe travel. My van. Which had adequate space for 5 and all their necessities for 11 days even with 140 pounds of wild boar in a cooler next to the back seat and hanging over the rear stow and go space. I don't love my van yet...but I'm thankful for her. : : Chelsea, still alive--and the fact that my parents brought the dogs to us today. We are grateful to be home. Grateful to have had my parents with us for the afternoon/evening today. Grateful for the experience of Florida again after 7 years away. Grateful for the blessing of vacation and a break...and glad to be back from it. Soooo much more to say about the trip. So not going to tonight. If you're planning a trip to Disney soon, call me. Our week was a pretty good example of what not to do. We will do it better next time. Commentaires (1)Pour ajouter un commentaire, connectez-vous avec votre identifiant Windows Live ID (si vous utilisez Messenger ou Xbox LIVE, vous avez un identifiant Windows Live ID). Connectez-vous Vous n'avez pas d'identifiant Windows Live ID ? Inscrivez-vous
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