IT'S GRAY, SO LET'S PLAY...!!!
Ok I know im late to the game but hey dont expect miracles!!
Growing up I was the youngest of 5. It would be a lie to say we never had the money, we did but it was dad's and he saved it all. Mom got what she needed for the essentials and that was about it. We never had any kind of fun vacations. My family is from VA so once a year in the summer we made the 11 hour drive and stayed with mom's family for a week. Sometimes if we wanted to she would leave us for the summer and come back and get us in the fall (that was her sneaky way to get an extra vacation in.) Oh it was all fun. I never complained and I did enjoy the fun times wtih family.
We rarely take our kids to teh beach just because its so darn expensive and since my job change a few years ago we really dont make as much as we used to. This year though we are definitely making a trip if I have to beg, steel, or borrow. I want me some Thrashers fries!!
Growing up I was the youngest of 5. It would be a lie to say we never had the money, we did but it was dad's and he saved it all. Mom got what she needed for the essentials and that was about it. We never had any kind of fun vacations. My family is from VA so once a year in the summer we made the 11 hour drive and stayed with mom's family for a week. Sometimes if we wanted to she would leave us for the summer and come back and get us in the fall (that was her sneaky way to get an extra vacation in.) Oh it was all fun. I never complained and I did enjoy the fun times wtih family.
We rarely take our kids to teh beach just because its so darn expensive and since my job change a few years ago we really dont make as much as we used to. This year though we are definitely making a trip if I have to beg, steel, or borrow. I want me some Thrashers fries!!
LOL this is a good topic! I have two older brothers who are WAAAAY older (my Mom went to the doc, thinking she was beginning menopause - I only imagine her shock when the doc said, "Oh, no, Mrs. G - this isn't menopause..."!!) In any case we never went on vacation when my bros still lived at home for some reason, but I was so little I had no clue. When I hit middle school age we began to go to Rehoboth Beach, and we stayed in a little (kind of dumpy, now that I think back, LOL) cottage on a side street near - but definitely not IN - Henlopen Acres. It was no vacation for my Mom, she still cooked and kept the cottage straight, but I loved the ocean - and still do today, although I have a awful lot of respect for it too. I can still go sit on a beach for hours, staring into the water, and let my mind just wander into space....it is still heaven to me.
I remember once, though, going to Williamsburg and Busch Gardens when it first opened, and remember my Dad being impressed with the free beer, LOL - and I think I rode my first roller coaster there, whatever was actually open back then. That was a fun long weekend, especially since I got to play hookey from school!
As a teenager I was pretty calm, LOL, I was a good girl, not a hoodlum or a troublemaker - and so were my friends - so it was way out there for us to cut school on Opening Day when the first of us got her driver's license and had a car at school....we had a blast, running over an orang highway cone on the way home too, just for fun...gawd we were silly! I'm still friends with the one who was driving that day, LOL - after all these years! In fact, we just went to the O's game last night!
Cheerios!
Mare
PS: As I type this I'm at Dulles in the BA Lounge hanging out waiting for my flight to London tonight, and then on to Barcelona tomorrow, and then heading straight into the office, arriving around 2, and working till 9pm....zzzzzzz....sure hope I can sleep on the plane tonight!
I remember once, though, going to Williamsburg and Busch Gardens when it first opened, and remember my Dad being impressed with the free beer, LOL - and I think I rode my first roller coaster there, whatever was actually open back then. That was a fun long weekend, especially since I got to play hookey from school!
As a teenager I was pretty calm, LOL, I was a good girl, not a hoodlum or a troublemaker - and so were my friends - so it was way out there for us to cut school on Opening Day when the first of us got her driver's license and had a car at school....we had a blast, running over an orang highway cone on the way home too, just for fun...gawd we were silly! I'm still friends with the one who was driving that day, LOL - after all these years! In fact, we just went to the O's game last night!
Cheerios!
Mare
PS: As I type this I'm at Dulles in the BA Lounge hanging out waiting for my flight to London tonight, and then on to Barcelona tomorrow, and then heading straight into the office, arriving around 2, and working till 9pm....zzzzzzz....sure hope I can sleep on the plane tonight!
When someone says "My heart needs lifting..."
Don't ask "How come?", ask "How high?"
Don't ask "How come?", ask "How high?"
Thankie! Overnight flight was fine - I was upstairs on a 747 and got to sleeeeeeeeep....it was great. Now I'm at Heathrow T3 in the lounge, waiting....LOL, do you see a pattern here? .....onward flight to Barcelona is delayed. Grrr....I have a metric ton of work to do today and the later I get there, the later I must leave tonight...
Behaved myself at breakfast on the plane - Special K with skim milk and Splenda, and a fat free/sugar free yogurt, but I just can't pass up the yummy mini croissants here in the lounge. Lucky for me that post-op I will not be doing much Euro travelling anymore. The other good thing about that is I get to have a dog again! I miss my pup so much, I want to find one of her great-great-great-great grandpuppies! (ugh, put away the camera, Ansel....some kid is running around taking flash pictures in the lounge....grrrrr........)
Ah well, TTFN - see y'all later!!
Mare
Behaved myself at breakfast on the plane - Special K with skim milk and Splenda, and a fat free/sugar free yogurt, but I just can't pass up the yummy mini croissants here in the lounge. Lucky for me that post-op I will not be doing much Euro travelling anymore. The other good thing about that is I get to have a dog again! I miss my pup so much, I want to find one of her great-great-great-great grandpuppies! (ugh, put away the camera, Ansel....some kid is running around taking flash pictures in the lounge....grrrrr........)
Ah well, TTFN - see y'all later!!
Mare
When someone says "My heart needs lifting..."
Don't ask "How come?", ask "How high?"
Don't ask "How come?", ask "How high?"
I remember gimp. My parents bought a beach house at Colonial beach. They had renovated it, and thats where our summers were spent. I life guarded, fished, hung out, fell in love and got generally sick of Colonial Beach . I made sure my family never had to go through that. We traveled during the summers, and its still the same now. Wifey and I take a month and go. We hate staying in one place more then 3 days. We just drive, picnic, and look for a place to sleep.
Wow what great memories we all have. My parents did not have much money so we did alot of day trips. We did go to OC for 2 or 3 days and I can remember my dad saying to my Mom here is $20.00 and take the kids on the Boardwalk but bring me my change. That's as he sat on a bar stool at the world famous Purple Moose... My Mom did the best she could with that little bit of money and we loved OC and I still do. My grandparents did not drive so we went on the bus to WIldwood and stayed in a rental house that a Italian family owned and they rented out rooms to the same people year after year it was so nice and I went to WIldwood last year and the tram still runs and says Watch out for the car Watch out for the car. It must play over and over. Thanks for the memories...
Julie
Julie
It's still grey so that means I can still play!!!!!
As a family of 5, my father would take 2 to 4 weeks off in the summer and we would go to timeshares where we would come home with cheap new luggage. The timeshare thingies were free, we just had to come down and they had to go through the sales pitch. We went to Kitty Hawk one year, we went to Raleigh and Blue Ridge Mountains another year, we went to Myrtle Beach, and finally Dad found one in Virginia called the Riverside Resort next to the Chickahominy River. From that point on, 2 weeks every summer we'd go out there. Dad and Mom would go fishing, while us 3 kids would work on getting premature skin cancer.
But my most memorable trip is when I was 9 and we went to Portland, Maine to visit with Mom's sisters. My Aunt Helen owned a house that was 2 centuries old, and the stairs so steep. I had my first experience with the Velux blanket that week, as well as having lobster for the first time ever. Dad and the guys would go lobster trapping, and we had a big cookout of lobster. I learned how you could put a lobster to sleep. I also remember as if it were yesterday Mom telling me that I couldn't have any more lobster because I'd get sick. And every so often, I remember the Portland Head Lighthouse - which is my favorite lighthouse of all times.
Coming home from Portland, we all tripped over ourselves climbing the stairs because we had been used to going up the steep stairs and our stairs weren't that steep. Lots of shin and knee bruises and abrasions until we got it into our heads that the stairs are not to be ran up on, nor are they to be ridden down in a dresser drawer.
As a family of 5, my father would take 2 to 4 weeks off in the summer and we would go to timeshares where we would come home with cheap new luggage. The timeshare thingies were free, we just had to come down and they had to go through the sales pitch. We went to Kitty Hawk one year, we went to Raleigh and Blue Ridge Mountains another year, we went to Myrtle Beach, and finally Dad found one in Virginia called the Riverside Resort next to the Chickahominy River. From that point on, 2 weeks every summer we'd go out there. Dad and Mom would go fishing, while us 3 kids would work on getting premature skin cancer.
But my most memorable trip is when I was 9 and we went to Portland, Maine to visit with Mom's sisters. My Aunt Helen owned a house that was 2 centuries old, and the stairs so steep. I had my first experience with the Velux blanket that week, as well as having lobster for the first time ever. Dad and the guys would go lobster trapping, and we had a big cookout of lobster. I learned how you could put a lobster to sleep. I also remember as if it were yesterday Mom telling me that I couldn't have any more lobster because I'd get sick. And every so often, I remember the Portland Head Lighthouse - which is my favorite lighthouse of all times.
Coming home from Portland, we all tripped over ourselves climbing the stairs because we had been used to going up the steep stairs and our stairs weren't that steep. Lots of shin and knee bruises and abrasions until we got it into our heads that the stairs are not to be ran up on, nor are they to be ridden down in a dresser drawer.
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