Repeat trip help - planning ahead!

[MazdaUK]

OK, I've just booked out annual family reunion trip (not Disney) and I'd like some ideas before I go for how to make these pages different.

This year I used some of the pics for the "mystery scrapper" swap, so having them done by someone else made them differnet (and DIT did a great job!), but what to do next year? The venue and accomodation will be pretty much the same, my DSis and at least one of her kids hates photos, its February and mostly inside, and we've been there 6 years out of 7.

Any suggestions I can start thinking about? (I know I'm plannign very early but that's what I do)

Many thanks!

 

[DisneyIsTerrific]

What if you made a daily journal book. You could write the who, what, when, where, why for each day and add pictures specifically from that day. And, if you want to make the pages look different than before, how about picking a specific line of papers to use throughout the entire book and maybe bright colors to give this year's pictures a different feel.

 

[MazdaUK]

That's an idea I generally just have a few layouts as we're only there Monday to Friday (and Friday is just going home) but I could pick a specific line (maybe one from France or Belgium).

The biggest problem is that days are pretty samey - small kids in the activity zone (difficult to get pics), big kids playing racketball/ping pong (ditto) in the morning, lunch in the villa, swimming in the pm (no cameras - and I stay in the villa to read a scrap mag as I don't swim) then bar in the evening for chats and board games. We might have one day where we go off site to visit a war museum or similar, and maybe the mums might take a walk one morning instead of watching the kids run about, round of crazy golf (done before) or feed the ducks (done before).

Maybe I need to just take a few picks and do just one spread

 

[morgansmom2000]

Maybe just a few pictures on a two pager? Maybe favorite activities from the week?

 

[MazdaUK]

That'll probably be the way I go. But I do one for each boy as well - getting three different is Maybe a double for the family book and a single page for each boy.

Any good ideas for titles?

 

[morgansmom2000]

What did Yogi Berra say? "This is like deja vu all over again."

 

[MazdaUK]

I love that!