Zack and I found ourselves in a quandary last week. We had planned a trip to San Diego as an attachment to a business trip he was going on. He'd leave on Monday, I'd fly down on Thursday (Valentine's Day) to meet up with him, and we'd spend the weekend playing on the beach, visiting museums or zoos, and playing with my little bro and his wife. Buuuut mixing business with pleasure doesn't always work. The business trip was pushed back a week, and then it was pushed back another week. And then it was undecided. That works great if work is paying for the tickets and all the change fees. Not so great for us. When we realized that our weekend trip to San Diego was going to cost us twice as much, we started looking at other options. We could go anywhere we wanted to for a 4 day weekend (that was cheaper than San Diego.) We finally decided on a road trip to Colorado to visit Zack's dad. To make it more fun, we broke up the 11 hour drive by staying at a place in Glenwood Springs. It is home to the largest hot springs pool in North America. You know it's a fun place when there are signs on the pool deck that say "Pool deck may be icy." It was really fun to swim in hot hot water while my head was freezing freezing cold. We had a really good time. Semi-spontaneous trips can be fun... if they're planned right.
A few weeks ago I had my kids answer the following question: If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you do there?
Their answers ranged from the daring....
To the not so daring...
To the imaginative...
To the interesting.
And some just wanted to make friends around the world.
A while ago Zack and I asked ourselves the same questions in the form of a challenge. The challenge was this:
We have 3 weeks to come up with 3 different places to travel to.
At the end of the 3 weeks we had to present our ideas.
We had to say where we'd stay, how we'd get there, give ideas on what to do, and have a rough estimated cost of the trip.
Our ideas ranged from caving and whale watching in Canada to Broadway shows in New York to an RV trip down the California coast. Not that we're going to do any of them anytime soon, but it never hurts to have a vacation idea rolling around in your head.
Now I'm asking you the same questions. If you could go anywhere (and I mean ANYWHERE. We're talking dream vacations here.) in the world, where would you go, why do you want to go there, and what would you do?
5 comments:
Your kids make me laugh! I'm sure it's pretty hard being a teacher, thanks for sharing the fun parts about it. Ogden?! That's hilarious!
So, if I could go anywhere I think I'd like to go camping with two awesome people at a place called Old Folk's Flat. When we got there and found out there was too much snow we'd move the party to Chicken Creek. While there a few of the things we'd do would be- I'd catch my hair on fire, we'd see a dead rotting dog in an old abandoned truck, drunk guys would drive around and around our tent, we'd tie a deer leg to the car (so we could say ("to the deer"), we'd make up a holiday called Bru-ha-ha, and we'd make up a song to go with it.
Seriously though, I daydream all the time about places I want to go and things I want to do there. It's will be hard to narrow it down to one, but I'm going to think about it for the next couple of days.
For my dream vacation, I would go to the temple all day long, because that's what Heavenly Father and Jesus want me to do. :-) Then I'd go to Singapore, Malaysia (East & West), Sri Lanka, the Maldives (what's left of em after the tsunami) and all the other countries in the Orient. Aaaaand probably Europe.
I'd go to London. Why? Ohhh, you know why :) But I'd go with Chris this time, because we've never been to England together. I'd drag him all over and tell him all kinds of great stories and bore him to death. Then I'd go (still with Chris, of course) to Paris, Athens, and Rome, not necessarily in that order. And I'd just hang out in Europe in general before heading somewhere warm and tropical. All these places count as one trip, by the way, so I'm not breaking any rules here!
Allie, London is ALWAYS an option, isn't it? :)
Mike, aw man, I should have thought about the temple all day long....in SWITZERLAND. BOO YA!
Crystal, I would go on that camping trip, too. But I would also call the car, "Judy: Half man, half deer." (because of the sneaker tied next to the deer leg.) And I would make up a song about having a party in my head and I'm not invited. I'd put a hocket in the middle just for fun. And I think I'd use tapioca to write on stuff with. Ah, those were the days...
What creative kids you teach (they must have a good teacher). I haven't been anywhere so I could go just about any place and be happy. My dream vacation is any where that there is a beach. I would also love to go to NY.
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