In which I talk about food and vacationsDecember 29th, 2007 @ 7:01 am
My dad is a school teacher. Which means he has summers off. Which means we usually spent our summers camping up in the mountains around my home state. It was a fun way for my family t o bond. Nature always forces you to bond with something.
What I’m saying is that’s the kind of vacations I was always used to. And I liked it.
Today The King, Babboo, some friends, and I are headed to Canada for the New Year’s weekend. And while we won’t be stuck in a camping trailer like we were when I was a kid, I’m pretty sure it’s going to be fun. And maybe we’ll bond a little. But hey, not too much. This is a vacation after all.
As you know, I have some very specific requirements that make a vacation a vacation. First off I have to eat pizza. At the first bite of the first piece of pizza, it becomes a vacation. Secondly I have to enjoy a plate of eggs benedict. Nothing says vacation like hollandaise sauce poured over eggs and Canadian bacon (although up there, they just call it bacon).
I’m trying not to think about the fact that all five of us will be jammed into our little car (and that one of us, NOT ME, is pregnant). I’m trying to not think about the fact that we’ll have a kid wit us, so there won’t be any huge New Year’s Eve parties. Nope, I’m only thinking about the food. And the fun.
And I’m trying to not think about the fact that I need to finish packing before we leave in a few hours. Oh yeah, and take a shower.
So tell me, what types of vacations did you take when you were a kid? Please tell me I wasn’t the only one forced to sleep in a bed that is a table during the day.
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Vacation · Back in the day
SJ
said,
December 29, 2007 at 6:45 pm
We took a lot of camping trips when I was younger too, to the beach believe it or not. And we traveled a lot by car up to Vermont, and down to Florida where all our relatives were. We even drove cross country to California one time! I love to travel…
I hope you and your family - and your friends have a fun trip, and a safe one too. And a very Happy New Year to you all.
Loralee
said,
December 29, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I only took one kind of vacation as a kid. I refer to it as “The Triangle”, which means that the only places we ventured to were to see family in A: Arizona or B: Southern Californa.
From where we lived in Utah, it forms a triangle. That, and once we entered its realm all good will, happiness and joy of life mysteriously VANISHED!!! into its triangular abyss. Sort of “Bermuda-esque”.
We only deviated from this triangle one time and that was to visit my anti-Mormon grandmother in Iowa. (I preferred the triangle.)
HollowSquirrel
said,
December 30, 2007 at 12:04 am
We took some awesome vacations — California, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and many many amusement parks across the midwest. And europe when I was 14. I don’t think I ever slept on a table OR in a tent. My parents are NOT campers!
May
said,
December 30, 2007 at 5:52 am
I loved camping with the fam when I was a kid, but once my Dad got his boat, our camping days were over. And yes, the boat DID have a table that turned into a bed. It was sweet! But usually I slept on the deck so I could puke away my seasickness in the morning. Fun times. Also, 5 kids + 2 parents in 30′ sail-boat = What were they thinking/serious family bonding forced upon us… (there are no rest stops on the open water)
Liza
said,
December 30, 2007 at 10:13 am
Almost all of my family vacations as a kid took place mostly within the confines of a VW camper, with a pop-top. In fact, I have driven through 47 US states with my parents and my sister.
My sister and I shared the fold-out bed that was the back seat and the bag & sleeping bag storage during the day. Does that count?
Carrie
said,
December 30, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Me, my parents, and my sister DROVE from Virginia to California when I was younger. It was a 3-week vacation and we made many, MANY stops along the way (the Grand Canyon, Elvis’s house, Disney World, Tijuana, Mexico, etc…). Despite the fact that my sister is 7 years older than me and I was the “annoying younger sister” and we bickered in the backseat quite frequently, it was an awesome vacation and a great learning experience. I want to take this same vacation again with my husband and son in a few years.
Meritt
said,
December 30, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Ah yes… the campers that had the table that folds down into a bed. Slept there. Did that. Too many times to count.
… and shared it with brothers that pee’d the bed! ROTFL. (Mom always covered the cushions with garbage bags!)
Christar
said,
December 31, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I didn’t take many vacations. My dad’s side of my family took me camping with them, but they’re a little more ‘well-off’, so I got to stay in a really nice, big trailor every time we went. I loved it. It had a bedroom and a half, and satallite TV, a shower, and of course a kitchen. The dining area did turn into a bed as well, but I always slept on the pullout bed from the couch.
Molly
said,
December 31, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Hope you’re having a great time!!
We took lots of vacations when I was kid, all in the driving-cross-country variety since we were po. ;o)
Great memories, though, and I hope to give the same to my kids.
Kiraa
said,
December 31, 2007 at 9:57 pm
I usually took the kind of vacations that involved going away with the grandparents. My mom never thought it was a vacation if the kids were there.
So my grandparents would taken me on long road trips and we would see shit I didn’t care about at all - like the Grand Canyon, I mean OKAY??? it’s a hole.
But we always ate at McDonalds and that was like the BEST.
Ashlie
said,
January 1, 2008 at 6:34 am
I love being married to a teacher for summers off!
Have a great New Years!
alyndabear
said,
January 1, 2008 at 11:48 am
hope you’re having a wonderful time… and happy new year!
moosh in indy.
said,
January 2, 2008 at 1:09 am
Southern Utah.
Tent.
Sleeping bag with sister.
So much Dramamine on the drive down.
I’m not even sure what central Utah looks like.
Elizabeth
said,
January 2, 2008 at 5:48 am
We camped a lot when I was young. Oft times with relatives who had kids around our age, so we had lots to do. And sorry, I didn’t get to sleep on a bed that served as a table during the day! I could only be so lucky! We had tents. It wasn’t too bad, unless it rained and our tent leaked.
The thing I love, looking back, is that we never went very far, but it was always lots of fun.
Kim
said,
January 2, 2008 at 5:17 pm
We took a two-week road trip from our home in Kansas to Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, up through California to Oregon, then Washington, Idaho, Montana and back home. I had the whole backseat to myself. I remember the Grand Canyon, choking on a piece of bacon in Idaho, and the huge redwoods in Northern California.
Danielle
said,
January 3, 2008 at 5:39 am
Hope you had a wonderful trip!
Happy New Year!
angela
said,
January 5, 2008 at 3:21 pm
We always took some really lame family vacations, by car of course, and stayed in cheap hotels like the Super 8 or something similar. Even so, we had a lot of good times together so I guess that’s all that matters.