I Need A Vacation
Let me just summarize our trip.
789 miles driven
30 repetitions of wheels on the bus
15 rest stop bathroom breaks
10 movies
5 different hotel rooms
4 days with 7+ hours in the car
3 hours of I-want-to-get-out-of-the-car crying
1 pregnant mama, 8 weeks left until delivery
0 naps
We drove four days, FOUR DAYS, to get to Idaho Falls. For what? 3.5 days to spend with family. That's it. 3.5 days. In those 3.5 days we managed to stay in 3 different hotel rooms. Lugging all our stuff up at night and dragging it all back down in the morning. Most of our vacation was spent driving. Have you been through Idaho lately??? There is nothing scenic about it. Nor is there anything worth stopping and seeing. So we drove. Spent a ton of money on hotel rooms and dinners, and spent a measly 3.5 days with extended family. You couldn't pay me to do this vacation again.
With all this in mind, we spent a good half of the trip home discussing what the perfect vacation would be. There are a ton of destinations that we'd like to visit some day, too many to list. I'll just focus on elements of a perfect vacation.
- No driving, or as minimal as possible.
- One hotel destination (one destination period).
- Someplace kid friendly and fun.
- At least 4 days long, so I don't feel like I packed up and spent all that money for nothing.
Okay, so my list isn't that long. It shouldn't be that hard to accomplish the perfect vacation based on those. Of course with kids . . . Nothing is ever going to be perfect again is it?
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It's Gonna Kill Me
1 comment:
Wow, that sounds like a really fun trip, woo hoo!
The parts or Idaho you drove through are throughly ugly. Just to be fair to Idaho, there's a lot scenic about it. You were just in the wrong parts.
I agree with your vacation requirements though, driving can kill the whole thing . But then again, now that I'm thinking about it, My parents did some really great vacations as a kid where we spent a lot of time in the car. Well, they were great for me anyway. Hum.
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