Why is it that a family vacation is not a vacation away from family but spent with family? That doesn’t seem
like much of a vacation to me. Seriously, I don’t know about you but it seems that every time I go on a family vacation, I come home feeling like I need a vacation from my vacation. Why can’t our society accommodate having two types of vacation: family and self?
After the past 6 months that have been so intense, I NEEDED to have a self-type vacation. Our family “vacation” was supposed to be spent at a family wedding on a beautiful island (destination wedding) and a nice camping/biking trip after (with just my husband and I). Instead, we spent a few days in the hospital with my dad (away from our family doctors and home town and country for that matter), we missed the wedding, it poured rain and we camped near some folks who didn’t understand what quiet time was. In the end, we bagged the whole trip and came home early. Now we’re off to work and school again and I can’t seem to remember having the vacation I planed and was looking forward to for the past 6 months!
Not that I don’t love my family, but this trip was ridiculous! Not to mention way more expensive than it was supposed to be for a number of reasons (don’t worry, I’ll spare the details).
And besides, now we have a reall excuse to have a real vacation in the next few months and not with family.
