Ideas to keep in mind when planning your next vacation
Good idea:
Always split up your money and hide your credit cards somewhere in your vehicle you never know when you might leave your wallet in the bathroom on the New Jersey turnpike and someone might take it instead of turning it back in.
Bad idea:
Calling your spouse at 2 in the morning telling them you have "lost" your wallet.
Good idea:
Drinking lots of coffe while you are driving 11 hours all night to keep you awake!
Bad idea:
Forgetting there are no open rest areas on the Conneticut turnpike and bladders tend to get sore after 119 miles!
Good idea:
Medicating a 13 year old boy with a tylenol PM to avoid one more car game at 3 in the morning.
Bad idea:
Having to drag his ass into a McDonalds 3 hours later because he is too drugged to walk but has to pee and have an order of grease (aka hashbrowns).
Good idea:
Asking your godmother to have your favorite "delicacy" PERIWINKLES (sea snails) ready and waiting for you when you arrive.
Bad idea:
Eating them at 8:30 in the morning after only consuming coffee for the last 12 hours (talk about indigestion)
Good idea:
Hitting your cousins big beautiful pool, laying on a raft, having son push you around the pool, dangling your feet in the water, dozing on and off, and thinking this is the life!!!
Bad idea:
Hitting your cousins big beautiful pool, laying on a raft, having son push you around the pool, dangling your feet in the water, dozing on and off, and thinking this is the life!!! AND FORGETTING TO PUT ON SUNSCREEN!!!!!!
Good idea:
Having a "drink" before retiring after a long trip!
Bad idea:
Forgetting you have to climb up a winding staircase to get to bed..... reaching the top feeling dizzy ...... and then remember you forgot the bathroom up there dosen't work and you really have to go.
Good idea:
No matter how hot it is in an un-airconditioned house always wear something to bed, even though the state is not known for tornados you never know when there might be a warning and your 5 foot 76 year old godmother will force you to drag yourself down to the "cellar" in the middle of the night.
Bad idea:
Trying to talk sense into a 5 foot 76 year old woman who is deathly afraid of storms!!!
Good idea:
Taking your best friend and son sight seeing to the places you loved as a child!
Bad idea:
Taking your best friend and son sight seeing to the places you loved as a child! ......... enough said!!
Good idea:
Attending a big fourth of july party to see family you have not seen in years.
Bad idea:
Not recognising them ... they have aged so much while you haven't at all.
Good idea:
Having all the fresh seafood you could imagine right at your finger tips.....YUM
Bad idea:
Feeling obligated to eat every lobster and clam in the state! Never thought I'd say if I see one more lobster I'll be sick!
Good idea:
Treating the family to Duncan Donuts new coffee COOLATIAS ... yummy .. I recommend the hazelnut!
Bad idea:
Ordering them at the drive through and expecting the counter girl to understand your accent over the little speaker ......
Good idea:
Experiencing new things!
Bad idea:
One of them being a helicopter ride over the port of New Bedford with a stomach full of fried clams and a 13 year old asking the pilot "hey can you do tricks in this thing". The other being going out to pull lobster traps at 6 in the morning and thinking it's cute that they are letting your son drive the boat........gheeeeeeez ....... when throwing up off the side of the boat check the wind direction it changes quickly.
Thanks for this one, Guardgirl!
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