As you may remember, I traveled to Vegas Alone in February because the Children would not behave. http://open.salon.com/blog/conniemack/2009/02/25/its_vegas_baby
They're again off in April (why don't the teachers want to Teach?) and I'm torn. Should I re-do the Vegas route - we have friends there and free places to stay and we can still do Red Rock and the Grand Canyon and visit the baby and new house.
Or - should I take advantage of the cheap airline tickets and:
1. Go back to NY - gotta face the future ex sooner or later, and some art that I've had for 20+ years is still there, having not been sent out as promised;
2. Go to DisneyWorld, as I've never been, they're nearly too old to go, and I can comfort myself with visits to Epcot and fishing and birdwatching;
- or -
3. Buy a boat. It's really cool, this boat. More about that later. Of course, we'd give up all vacations to work on this boat. For many, many years.
** As of now - April Fool's Day - it is decreed that I will not buy the boat. I really, Really like it, and the idea, but it's not feasible, and would take all my energy and a lot of money to make it livable.
We're going to Vegas. More on that Later!
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... or Vegas?
Florida and enjoy yourself.
[sigh]
Capice?
Doesn't make us want a boat any less, I notice.
I vote for NY..sorry!
Disney World is probably more fun for the tweens especially if they have never been there. You owe it to them.
(surprised you didn't lobby yourself as one of the awesome places to eat in Chicago....)
Look, here is the practicality of the boat. You can teach the tweens all sorts of life lessons and skills. You can teach carpentry, civics, various nautical lessons, naval terms. The practicality is only limited by your imagination.
Well, you have my vote. Good luck in whatever you choose.
Got to go twice, taking my daughter this November about 6 weeks after moving out of the house. She loved it.
So I remembered that sometimes trips are not about us, they're about the kids, and she had a ball.
It's no longer a 48" cut off on the scary roller coasters, it's 52" or 54", so make sure the kids have the right height, or buy them some lifts.
But do the disney thing... for the children. Then hope one of them becomes successful and can buy you a boat.
Go to New York City.
(grin)
It's all I'm saying ...
I vote:
1.) New York
2.) Disney
3.) Vegas (though, I cannot IMAGINE Vegas with the kids)
4.) Boat
Boats are a pain in the keister.
(thumbified with the best of luck to 'ya)
But a boat would be a wonderful thing. A seriously fabulous, wonderful thing.
However, that's easy for me to say, since I don't have a boat and I just returned from a vacation with children.
Oddly enough, the kids want to go to NYC. Not so much upstate where we lived, but the City. They miss it. We spent a lot of time there when we lived there - day trips, mostly. But they also want to go to Vegas, which we left when they were 2 and 1 years old. And there Are things to do in Vegas with kids - indoor parachuting, huge arcades, hiking Red Rock and a day trip to Hoover dam and the Grand Canyon, well, maybe two days.
Go to New York, the pulsing heart---or is it stomach?--- of the damn universe. Revivify by soaking in the eclectic glmour-mongers, take the pulse---or do an endoscopy, depending on which metaphor we're using---of the universe, & report back. Future ex?
dissect him, lay him out on the table, take note of the conditions of the major organs, & give him yr diagnosis/prognosis. The young people call it "closure" i think...sew him up good, remember, after yre done. Grab yr art, flit around, take notes, but most of all...get the electroconvulsive therapy NY afford...then...
any chance 1 night at Epcot: you have to do the Disney experience, as it's a Disney world...outside NY, that is...
oh well./...keep us informed...
best, James E.
If you buy the boat, you'll never go on vacation again because 1. you'll need to work on the boat and 2. you'll be broke, because there is a good deal of truth to the saying "a hole in the water..."
It is beautiful in New York this time of year.
I've wasted like an Hour trying to find a transportable/applicable international "no" symbol (the red circle with the diagonal slash) to place over the boat above. Not gonna get the boat.
At least, not This one.
Ablonde gave me invaluable advice + all the right questions to ask the seller.
So... sorry, not NY either! I had a credit with the airline; plus the suite at the Palazzo is Free. So we're going to Vegas. To see the baby, to see the new house (again). To see the Blue Man Group. To hike in the red rocks west of town.
Thanks for the input. Now I miss NYC more than ever before, so we'll just have to plug a trip in to there as soon as possible.