how we spent our summer vacations...

We went on a family summer vacation this year... It has been a few years since we had a summer vacation. Last year (2007) our summer was so busy that we never had the whole family together for a few days that we could go somewhere. The summer before that (2006) we were spending every spare minute making trips trying to clear up my father-in-laws estate and my son's brain tumor stuff. The summer three years ago (2005) my son was diagnosed the day we were supposed to leave on our vacation, we spent our summer vacation having brain surgeries.

We did do things together as a family, just never an official "all-go-somewhere-together-in-the-summer" vacation. So we finally did it. We took our government stimulus package check and our savings and blew it on a 4 day cruise. we took off, drove 14 hours in our gas-guzzling-minivan, spent 4 days with it with my sister in California, we were 4 days on the cruse and spent another looooong day driving back home. Then I took another 4 days at home to recover.