I need a vacation from my vacation

I feel the same way you do Jensen. . .

We took our family vacation a few weeks ago. It was one of those weeks that we will look back on and laugh someday just not today!

We went to Buena Vista not very far away, stayed in a friends cabin, and planned fun cheap and or free activities because this year we were doing a fun, inexpensive simple vacation. Should of gone for the crazy busy, super expensive kind instead!

Let me just count some of the many ways this very random vacation became not a vacation:

• STOMACH FLU. Eve puked the whole way there. So we quarantined her to a back bedroom for the first day, cleaned the bedding, washed down the room in hopes that it wouldn't be passed on to Boyd and Mary (Bret's brother's family). We thought we made it out free and clear but Boyd got sick the last day, and then all of his kids puked the whole car ride home to Utah.
• Everywhere we went we either got lost going or it took twice as long as planned.  I want a tom tom for Christmas! We ended up with a flat tire behind some private lake on a dirt road in the middle of no where while looking for the perfect pinic spot. Four brand new tires after we got back. . .
• Eliza took a major face plant into the tile floor cutting her lip up and making the two front teeth we have invested a great deal of money in very tender and possibly loose. Still a few years before those are supposed to come out.
• Horseback riding was the highlight of the vacation. Eliza was to small to ride but couldn't wait for the hay ride. The hay ride guy didn't show up for work so they offered us a pony ride instead. But when the pony was bigger then her my little ponies at home she was a little heart broken.
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  Taking the boat out was the big finale. We drove around the lake for nearly an hour looking for the boat ramp (which ended up being 5o feet from the front gate of the lake). Then it was so windy we could not take it out. Bummer hauled it all that way for it to just look good on the back of the car. If you have seen the boat you know I am kidding by "look good."
• Fished in the crazy wind and ate peanut butter and dirt sandwiches. . .
• Upon leaving my exhausion hit all I wanted to do was turn on a movie for the kids and get home. DVD player broken.
• This then cause Julia to cry for a full two hours about everything she could possibly come up with. She missed the cabin already, she'll never see her cousin again, it is raining outside, her flip flop fell off everything. . .
• Last we told the kiddos we would stop at this really fun BBQ joint on the way home for dinner. Two hour wait for some ribs- I was beyond being patient so we did not wait which made the crying to begin again.

I have never been so glad to get back to real life!

But on the bright side- it was beautiful up there and I am so grateful to live in such a wonderful and beautiful place. It was great to spend time with our family and create memories if even for me they weren't so great. The kids had a great time. That's all that really matters.

I recently read a quote/story about a man who took his son fishing and wrote in his journal that night. "Took my son fishing, total waste of a day." Later it was discovered that his son wrote in his own journal that same night and his said, "Went fishing with my dad, best day of my life."

Maybe that is how the girls will view this trip.