My summer vacation (tentative plan)
Feb. 23rd, 2004 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleinThe first few days of my trip are nearly carved in stone. It only remains to be seen if the airline will go along with my plan. i believe i have had one trip to/from Kuwait that went off the way it was supposed to. Not that i mind the extra excitement, but sometimes i would like not to be surprised. i would like to meet my family at the airport the first time they go there to greet me, not the second, third, or even 4th.
After my visit to The Jersey Shore, i plan to spend a few days in Iowa getting re-adjusted to being with my family. i have been pondering long and hard over what to do for a special kind of trip. One thought i had was to rent a motorhome and take Mother and daughter to California to see my brother,(her son, her uncle) and his family. But Mother's health is acting up and i can't get her to be in a good mood to even discuss a trip like that let alone plan one.
She mentioned to Sarah that driving would not be fun, but she might want to fly. Ok, that's a good thought. We all three can fly out, spend a few days with brother, and then Sarah and i can rent a car and take a trip by ourselves, come back, pick up Mother and fly home.
Mother also mentioned that we don't have to go so far away for vacation. We could take day trips around Iowa. She has never been to see Hoover's birthplace, although why anyone would want to visit the birthplace of a vacuum is beyond me...oh, no, wait, wrong Hoover. We could go to the living history farms, another place Mother has never been. Things like that. Two small problems: Sarah has been there done those, and day trips involve driving, something Mother says she doesn't want to do because of the incontinence.
So, i sez to Sarah, Sarah, i sez, we can take day trips with Grammy, and then you and i can go do a thing on our own. i suggested a health spa for a week. i love the thought of being pampered. Or a cabin in the woods or on the shore of a lake for a week. Fine for me, but i think just more of the same for Sarah. Sit and watch the world go by.
Then i had the epiphany of all epiphanies. We shall rent a houseboat on the Mississippi for one week. The drive to the boat renting place is less than two hours. Mother could handle that. Then once we are on the boat it will be just like being in her own living room, only on the water. Sarah and i can swim when we find a beach we like. Sarah can fish anytime it pleases her. Her brother and his wife and family could come for a day visit, my sister and her husband could come for a day or two visit. Her Uncle could bring his girls for the day or so, there are endless possibilities for busy days.
The boat renting place will teach you how to navigate the river, give you charts, and a video if you want. For one week you can go up into Minnesota or down the Iowa/Illinois border. The boats have tv/vcr, real potties (for Mother), all the amenities. What could be wrong with a vacation like that? We wouldn't even have to travel very far. Across the river and tie up to a sand bar. Go back across the river to get to the car if there is anything we need from the store. Mother has a cell phone. What am i missing from this spectacular plan? There must be something, cuz to me it almost sounds too good to be true.
Oh, yea, getting Mother to agree. But she wouldn't even have to cook.
Sometimes i just think she doesn't want to do with me. She has Auntie Nurse, whom she loves dearly because Auntie Nurse is the good child. She stayed 'home'. i don't think Mother will ever forgive me for not. But then there would be the terrible problem of which daughter to like least? cuz we know you can't hate the only son.
i have to stop now because i am getting mean.
After my visit to The Jersey Shore, i plan to spend a few days in Iowa getting re-adjusted to being with my family. i have been pondering long and hard over what to do for a special kind of trip. One thought i had was to rent a motorhome and take Mother and daughter to California to see my brother,(her son, her uncle) and his family. But Mother's health is acting up and i can't get her to be in a good mood to even discuss a trip like that let alone plan one.
She mentioned to Sarah that driving would not be fun, but she might want to fly. Ok, that's a good thought. We all three can fly out, spend a few days with brother, and then Sarah and i can rent a car and take a trip by ourselves, come back, pick up Mother and fly home.
Mother also mentioned that we don't have to go so far away for vacation. We could take day trips around Iowa. She has never been to see Hoover's birthplace, although why anyone would want to visit the birthplace of a vacuum is beyond me...oh, no, wait, wrong Hoover. We could go to the living history farms, another place Mother has never been. Things like that. Two small problems: Sarah has been there done those, and day trips involve driving, something Mother says she doesn't want to do because of the incontinence.
So, i sez to Sarah, Sarah, i sez, we can take day trips with Grammy, and then you and i can go do a thing on our own. i suggested a health spa for a week. i love the thought of being pampered. Or a cabin in the woods or on the shore of a lake for a week. Fine for me, but i think just more of the same for Sarah. Sit and watch the world go by.
Then i had the epiphany of all epiphanies. We shall rent a houseboat on the Mississippi for one week. The drive to the boat renting place is less than two hours. Mother could handle that. Then once we are on the boat it will be just like being in her own living room, only on the water. Sarah and i can swim when we find a beach we like. Sarah can fish anytime it pleases her. Her brother and his wife and family could come for a day visit, my sister and her husband could come for a day or two visit. Her Uncle could bring his girls for the day or so, there are endless possibilities for busy days.
The boat renting place will teach you how to navigate the river, give you charts, and a video if you want. For one week you can go up into Minnesota or down the Iowa/Illinois border. The boats have tv/vcr, real potties (for Mother), all the amenities. What could be wrong with a vacation like that? We wouldn't even have to travel very far. Across the river and tie up to a sand bar. Go back across the river to get to the car if there is anything we need from the store. Mother has a cell phone. What am i missing from this spectacular plan? There must be something, cuz to me it almost sounds too good to be true.
Oh, yea, getting Mother to agree. But she wouldn't even have to cook.
Sometimes i just think she doesn't want to do with me. She has Auntie Nurse, whom she loves dearly because Auntie Nurse is the good child. She stayed 'home'. i don't think Mother will ever forgive me for not. But then there would be the terrible problem of which daughter to like least? cuz we know you can't hate the only son.
i have to stop now because i am getting mean.
