How about with the fact that it simply was not. It just wasn't what I'd even call... A VACATION. An adventure to a new place, maybe. For me, perhaps a photo safari, but a vacation. No way.
How utterly ironic that I'd find THIS scrub top to give a hat tip to one of the biggest reasons I'm getting a summer job. I mean of course, it had to go to tuition first, but if I can pull this coming year off debt free, the rest goes to
Lastly, remember the little cart suspended across the river?
Here is where having a hydrogeologist for a hubby comes in handy! This was used to hang a person over the river in order to drop a device into the water at different points across the river to measure flow, velocity and discharge of a river at a specific point. This one was quite old, so they were doing this on the Grande Ronde a very long time ago. Now there are much better tools to do the job, and it continues to be important to get data for measuring drought, predicting fish stuff, how much and when to let water through a dam, etc... So there ya have it. Who'da thunk it?
Tell me about it.
Especially when DD14 makes a racket until midnight.
I feel like banging on her door at 5am just to let her know that I'm leaving for work.
Let me know what you think!
Then you too can do this.
"Oh, is that a jpeg? Pfft. Philistine."
I've never been. Just never been interested enough to go.
But I can see how you would be.
Back later to read the update!
I can get on board with that. You need a place to hide from the heat/cold.
My wife would definitely agree! She's always most excited about the restaurants I research on a trip because it insures that she doesn't have to make dinner.
Absolutely. Don't expect me to sit around doing nothing all day.
Oh, I don't know...that sounds awfully entertaining when you put it that way.
Hey, wait a second! That rules out half the days of my trips!
That was my second guess.
LOVE the scrubs top. Too cute I'm sorry about your non vacation But in one year you'll get that REAL vacation The one we all dream of...
I'm sorry your camping trip was a dud....but glad you are getting closer to the big WDW trip next year! I love the scrub top and it was on clearance?!?!/ Score!!!
Awesome on your pay. It will be so nice to graduate debt free!
Jill in CO+
Nice new scrub top!
Well, yeah...that's pretty much what we all said.
Nice disney tie in! That is so great about the job and more money! I totally agree on your vacation assessment criteria! If I am doing the same amount of chores or more, it is not really a vacation just a change of scenery.
I know not all time away is a vacation- it can be such work. I have a friend that calls that a relocation not a vacation.
Awesome find!!! I am sure you will wear it proud.
Well fancy that. A very useful thingie.
Customarily, one starts at the beginning, fills up the middle part and finishes at the end.
Aren't you glad I'm here?
I would put this at number one.
Yes dying of heat prostration sucks, but if I have to cook, that's not a vacation.
At. All.
OMG! That scoop's huge!!!!
You're right. Without a moose mating call, it's just not complete.
Uh.... Umm.... I once spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 straight hours in a car (minus gas stops and bathroom breaks... and I think one fifteen minute dine in at a KFC) to get to Disney.
I'd do it again, too.
Yes I can! Because we've been sharing your journey with you!
More pay is a good thing.
Be still my beating heart... well, not too still.
Huh! Really! It looked so old that I never would've suspected it for any sort of scientific endeavor.
The only great thing in the way of food that Troy had going was the huckleberry ice cream. $4 for a double scoop the size of a Kardashian
1) Year 1 of Nursing School is OVER and done with! Can you believe it?!?!
nd even better it was on the clearance rack. I give to you...
So there ya have it. Who'da thunk it?
Oh that's rich. Let me know how that works out for you
How to make friends and influence people. You charmer, you.
So, if you had an extra $1,000 to plunk down, excluding WDW, where would you go?
Thank you, Smart Donkey.
But even worse than cooking is the crappy job of doing dishes. Especially camping. Soooooooo. Much. Work.
Well, yes, there is that too. Now I feel somehow extremely deprived of missing out on that vacation experience.
We'll see how many die-hards I have left at the end of this ridiculously long journey.
Hey! I have meds for that!
This ought to be good...I don't know about you, but in order to qualify for "Vacation Status" a few basic prerequisites have to be in place:
I thought you had a pop up camper with A/C??? That's good enough for me!Some form of climate control. Somewhere. Anywhere. A place to retreat should it rain, the weather literally threaten to cook you alive, freeze you to death, or blow sand into your food, face, or sheets. This trip didn't offer any of that should we'd have wanted it. Well, actually, Troy did have a small lodge we could have gone into to hunker down, but it's "nottavacation" if you must be in one place for more than 5 minutes if you have to be.
Burgers and fries... yeah, I don't see the problem.Someone else to cook your food AND clean up after said cooking. This place did have that option if you wanted to eat a burger and fries for a week straight.
Ok, that's a valid point.I want a comfortable bed and pillow. And towel animals. NONE of that was within about 150 miles of my trailer.
How about a variety of stuffs to do. Is it asking too much to want to have some entertainment along the way? Yes, we got to watch a LOT of drunk people try to dance, dogs carry beer, fish jump 4 feet out of the water, elk head butt each other, and life flight land in the middle of nowhere, but I need more than that for a week to be called "Vacation".
Let's see... if I go to Disney World, I'm driving over 12 hours. Yeah... not a valid point.I don't want to be in a car for 12 hours to get there. A plane for sure, but not a car. Even the best air conditioner won't redeem a week:
Congratulations on all your milestones and success.1) Year 1 of Nursing School is OVER and done with! Can you believe it?!?! I simply cannot thank you enough for the encouragement and walking alongside me you've done these last many months! There were definitely some very dark days and your notes of cheering me on helped me ways you'll never know.
2) I passed my NCLEX-PN National Boards and got my first of 2 Nursing Licenses.
3) I have already been able to buy 3 of our 8 day PH tickets. That's pretty darned exciting!
4) I got a very wonderful job that pays quite well; in fact, with pay 10% more than I thought when I walked out of my interview.
5) This summer has also given me some very encouraging and useful Clinical experience to bolster that resume for next summer when I apply at the local hospital.
Woohoo!! Don't get in too big of a hurry with the rough draft. You know that much will change!6) I've looked at the park hours and have sketched out a VERY rough draft which I'll start sharing in the next post or so. Reviving you from this far away is not an option, so please contain your excitement.
WHat's wrong with a boat?Here is where having a hydrogeologist for a hubby comes in handy! This was used to hang a person over the river in order to drop a device into the water at different points across the river to measure flow, velocity and discharge of a river at a specific point.
Well that sounds like one plus to the notvacay?? Trying to be positive lol. But it certainly doesn't sound like my cup o' tea either. I don't mind car camping for a weekend...but that's about all I can take. And I have to go with other people who have all the gear and do most of the cooking lol. But..I'd absolutely take a Disney hotel instead of any of it
Waaahoooo! No I can't believe it...and I haven't even been following along for as long as many around here lol...but time does go quickly!
I LOVE it!! How awesome that you will get to wear Mickey to work!!
Oh, I won't do it. I'm too much of a softy.
I am nothing if not charming.
Oh, wow. That's a really hard question to answer.
Seriously if just right now someone said "Here's $1,000. Go on a trip." I'd probably do tons of research first and figure out exactly where I'd want to go.
I mean it's a good amount of money, but it's not $10,000 either.... hmmm.....
It would be somewhere I haven't been, I think...
Hmmmm.... the more money, the farther afield.... so I'd say anything overly exotic is out.
Like Fiji or Bali.... or anything in Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania.
So that leaves North & South America and Europe (barely).
So let's pick Europe.
Hmmm.... Ireland or Switzerland or Spain or Italy or Southern France... maybe Greece when things settle.
Pin me down right now and I'll pick.... uh.... Italy.
Wow. That was tougher than I thought!
What?!?!? They made you cook.... AND do dishes?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Are you kidding me?
Honestly I would do that once and the next time: "Nope. You guys go ahead without me. Have fun."
Wait... Is this a compromise so you can go to Disney next time?
That's different... but just barely.
Moose calls is where it's at.
I always worry and wonder when I readers disappear.
"Are they okay?"
"Did I offend them?"
"Was I too boring?"
etc.
I believe you!
Great Update and Disney Tie in Liesa!! I have to agree my camping days are over , Judy never began themher idea of camping is a hotel room I have had a busy week again, had a joint picnic with 2 clubs in the agency, went very well , but the planning and preparing were grueling . Then I had a Car Wash , let me tell you I di=on't want to wash another car for a very long time including my own !! I only seem to find time to Dis when I have a spare moment at work any more , but now I will make an effort to stay out of bed the minute I get home from work and Dis more !!
As we are approaching another scorcher week in Oregon, I thought this would be appropriate for people to understand just how hot it has been.
Overheard at the local University library, a young boy asking his father, "When are we going back to California? It is too hot here!"
I have friends in Disneyland that are getting poured on the last couple of days. Unheard of for this time of year.
Love your scrub top. I don't wear scrubs, but last year I was looking for one for the MNSSHP and couldn't find anything Disney related.
I totally agree with your vacation requirements. I have never taken my kids camping. As a single mom, that just never has sounded like a good idea to me. I need to be waited on, not just have my workload doubled with camping.
Woot! Finally got through all 69 pages. I have to say I didn't read all the banter, but I did real all the updates and all the mini life updates in between!
Congrats on finishing your first year of nursing school! I read through because @annmarieda and I are going down next fall. Sometimes falling around food and wine/mnsshp!
Congrats again on the job (I think I congratulated you on FB; I'm so confused with all the packing that I'm doing that I can't remember who I said what to these days).
Absolutely LOVE the new scrub.
Aaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddd 30 pages later ... I'm baaaaaaack. I need a tutorial and a reboot on my brain's memory capacity ... have you ever forgotten your password, forgotten which email is connected to your account and then *POP* it just clicks?! Yeah, me in a NUTshell -- I exasperate myself.
Anyway -- HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The good news, you got a job. The bad news, you have to go to work every day.The saddest victim of the "you got a job"
Yep, I'm right there with you. I've been in this situation a lot lately. Been popping in and reading on the phone and then hoping to remember to reply later.The other factor is that while I can read during my lunch, it's just too cumbersome to reply on my phone.
Well, don't complain about it. You should have just got them a few weeks later.Also, we got our 2 little goats and it's like having toddlers again. Except they are very stubborn, not very cooperative toddlers. And they stink. They are in the middle of the process of being wethered and smell like necrotic dead flesh. Look it up.
Sounds like fun! I'm only about 4 - 5 hours away... but I don't believe I'll be making it down for a DIS meet. Have a great time. I really love Nashville. I'm not really a big fan of larger cities, but I never mind spending some time in Nashville.The good news is that I have 10 days of vacation coming up very soon. Sunday in fact, I'm leaving for Bowling Green, KY and Nashville. If ANYONE wants to hang out for a spell, let me know!!!
And that threat of going without? I have done it. And would do it again in a fraction of a heartbeat. Always looking for viable candidates for a trip to cut down resort costs and have company that loves Disney as much as I do. My family isn't always the best at either.
There are several parties already hooking up for some night's/days out and Meets. Do keep me posted on your dates as it gets closer! We'll make sure to have you in on the loop for stuff! Yeehaw Bob, Trader Sam's, a pool time, etc... are all shaping up to work out for many of us.