My weekend/Vacations

... was lovely. We had a couple of friends over from England. They were on "Holiday", and made their way to New York (stayed in Times Square), then on to Las Vegas (stayed at The Mirage), then to the Bay Area to see us for a couple of days and then they backtrack themselves and flew back to Las Vegas today for a couple more days, then back to NY for a couple more days, then back to England. How exhausting, but they've seen more than I have and I live in the U.S.! Our visiting girlfriend confided in me yesterday saying "I'm so sick of flying." I suppose variety and adventure is the spice of life, but my goodness a vacation to me is for relaxing and unplugging from my day-to-day anything. And email during vacation is just used to gloat to friends about what a wonderful time you're having on your vacation! My hubby also likes to "do" stuff while on vacation, and getaways. I can appreciate it while I'm "doing" it, it's just the effort to mentally prepare myself to"gear up" to do something is not what I look forward to while on vacation. I'm more the meandering type, taking what comes and appreciating "it" for what "it" is, when "it" comes to me. Hmm, maybe it's a guy thing? I think inherently many men equate a sense of self worth with what they have accomplished, and if they "do" stuff on vacation then it's been a successful vacation. How different those darling man creatures are! But I suppose it all depends on the kind of vacation one wants. Sometimes people need to nurture their sense of adventure, and so they would create an adventurous Holiday, like trekking through the glaciers in New Zealand.

I look forward to my next vacation, which has to happen before the end of April of next year. It can't be too spendy though, 'cause the Monster Kitchen is coming and the price is already above what we were "hoping" for, and we haven't even figured in the countertop yet! ;)

ta, 'til later...