louise1928
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 27, 2001
I don't visit here often, but when I stumbled across this thread, I thought I would jump in. My husband and I travel a lot together, very rarely with friends, family etc., so most of the time its just the two of us. However, we do share different interest when planning our vacations, as many of you probably do.
Any ideas, tips, tricks you can share would be a great!! I will start with my own;
Thanks to cell phones, when one of us wants to ride, shop, explore, we will often times split up, and meet somewhere later. It works out great, and we only do this during the daytime hours, in the evenings we are always together.
Once when were at Islands of Adventure, he wanted to ride the Hulk, and I wanted to explore the park. The line was long, so his wait was about 30 minutes. While he was waiting for his ride, I explored the park on my own, grabbed a cool drink, and found a nice spot to people watch. When the ride was over, we were back together. It was much better than me sitting there waiting for him to ride. I got to see things he had no interest in, and spend some free time alone.
We also do this at the Movie Theater, which really works out great. He wanted to see a horror movie and I wanted to see a comedy. We picked the movies that were running at the same times and same theater of course, and off we went, met up when it was over, and had a great dinner. We do this at home as well.
The idea of traveling together is to spend quality time, however, there is nothing wrong with stealing a few hours alone on vacation either! It works out great for us.
Our next trip is Disney for Christmas, and we are already planning his rides and attractions, and my interest as well. We know we will split up during the course of our trip, but it all works out.
Any ideas, tips, tricks you can share would be a great!! I will start with my own;
Thanks to cell phones, when one of us wants to ride, shop, explore, we will often times split up, and meet somewhere later. It works out great, and we only do this during the daytime hours, in the evenings we are always together.
Once when were at Islands of Adventure, he wanted to ride the Hulk, and I wanted to explore the park. The line was long, so his wait was about 30 minutes. While he was waiting for his ride, I explored the park on my own, grabbed a cool drink, and found a nice spot to people watch. When the ride was over, we were back together. It was much better than me sitting there waiting for him to ride. I got to see things he had no interest in, and spend some free time alone.
We also do this at the Movie Theater, which really works out great. He wanted to see a horror movie and I wanted to see a comedy. We picked the movies that were running at the same times and same theater of course, and off we went, met up when it was over, and had a great dinner. We do this at home as well.
The idea of traveling together is to spend quality time, however, there is nothing wrong with stealing a few hours alone on vacation either! It works out great for us.
Our next trip is Disney for Christmas, and we are already planning his rides and attractions, and my interest as well. We know we will split up during the course of our trip, but it all works out.
DH has us make a trip to visit family in MN every other year. Then he dumps me and the kids at his Dad's place, visits with him a few hours every day and then goes off to visit friends in other towns. 
