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It's a beautiful morning by the sea in sunny Florida and I'm ever so glad to be back in the citrus state. We weren't planning a trip here this year at all, but a couple of dates opened up at our favorite spot from last year and we decided to pack our bags and go. It was last minute and the kids were against it, which totally baffled me.
I grew up without ever taking a single family vacation, so I'm always ready for a road trip or a trip of any kind, really. My children on the other hand have traveled frequently in their young lives to some pretty incredible places and they come off as a little jaded toward seeing the world now. I get it...I guess, but I don't like it. The world is a pretty big place with amazing things to see all around.
So, I very politely asked them to leave their crabby pants at home and only bring their happy pants along for this family vacation. Did they? Pretty much. No trip is without it's mishaps and misadventures, but I'd say we did far more laughing than anything else and that is what makes a trip great.
For this trip I packed lots of great, healthy snacks since we were trying to keep our expenses down and we managed to make it the whole way without stopping for a meal. And, I grabbed a few audio books from the library to make the trip go by a little faster. I picked a little of everything--Little Women, A Walk in the Woods, Mr. Popper's Penguins--but the one that surprised me by being a crowd favorite was The Hunger Games.
I read the books years ago, and watched two of the movies. I loved the books, but there was so much they just couldn't fit into a two hour movie that I didn't love them as much (no disrespect to Jennifer Lawrence). Everyone liked the book so much that we actually had a lengthy discussion about it and they asked me to check out the next two on audio book so we could finish the series together.
I don't know how we did it on such short notice, but we managed to have a really great road trip with a good book, good conversation, very little bad weather, and minimal sunburning.
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