Tigger&Belle
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Oh, my, I think I need to vacation for the whole summer in order to go to all these great sounding places! Of course my DH would then come back to no job since they had a fit when he took 14 days off over the course of 3 1/2 weeks this summer (not the thing to do where he works, but the way our vacations worked out this year).
I'll make a list of all the places and show my family.
Bar Harbor sounds nice and we would like to see that part of the country. As long as we have plenty of down time and are staying in 1 or 2 places it would be good. We've taken a couple of New England vacations before and one was terrible (Vermont and New Hampshire) because we stayed at different places each night and were always on the go. I thought it was great, but I was ready to sell, give away, or even pay someone to take the kids. LOL They hated the constant "on the go".
Any idea if any other the rental houses in that area allow dogs? We left our 2 dogs and 2 cats home this year and they so missed us. Can't bring the cats with us, but if the places we were visiting were places that we would bring dogs to (lots of outdoor activities) then I would consider bringing the dogs. Not set on doing that, however.
We've briefly been to the Outer Banks (stayed there a couple days on our way to Atlantic Beach, NC about 6 years ago). Would be a possibility.
I could convince my DH to go to Wisconsin fairly easily since we'd be able to see some of his family. The summer house is on Brown's Lake, which must not be too far from Lake Geneva.
I hadn't thought of Northern Michigan. We never made it there when we lived in Madison, WI, but we wanted to (had a clunker of a car and we were worried that it wouldn't make the trip, not to mention that we were very poor college students without any extra cash for a vacation . If we could get away for longer than a week we could combine that with what we'd want to do and see in Wisconsin. After him taking so much time off this summer a longer vacation might not be feasible, though.
I'll look more into Block Island and other areas around there.
Hmmm, I need to reread all these great ideas--I'm probably forgetting things.
T&B
I'll make a list of all the places and show my family.
Bar Harbor sounds nice and we would like to see that part of the country. As long as we have plenty of down time and are staying in 1 or 2 places it would be good. We've taken a couple of New England vacations before and one was terrible (Vermont and New Hampshire) because we stayed at different places each night and were always on the go. I thought it was great, but I was ready to sell, give away, or even pay someone to take the kids. LOL They hated the constant "on the go".
Any idea if any other the rental houses in that area allow dogs? We left our 2 dogs and 2 cats home this year and they so missed us. Can't bring the cats with us, but if the places we were visiting were places that we would bring dogs to (lots of outdoor activities) then I would consider bringing the dogs. Not set on doing that, however.
We've briefly been to the Outer Banks (stayed there a couple days on our way to Atlantic Beach, NC about 6 years ago). Would be a possibility.
I could convince my DH to go to Wisconsin fairly easily since we'd be able to see some of his family. The summer house is on Brown's Lake, which must not be too far from Lake Geneva.
I hadn't thought of Northern Michigan. We never made it there when we lived in Madison, WI, but we wanted to (had a clunker of a car and we were worried that it wouldn't make the trip, not to mention that we were very poor college students without any extra cash for a vacation . If we could get away for longer than a week we could combine that with what we'd want to do and see in Wisconsin. After him taking so much time off this summer a longer vacation might not be feasible, though.
I'll look more into Block Island and other areas around there.
Hmmm, I need to reread all these great ideas--I'm probably forgetting things.
T&B
of all! Since your DH has no interest in the parks, drop him off at my house, then drive on the 35 minutes to WDW. Your DH can stay here all week doing a little painting, repairing the fence and running errands for me. At the end of the week DH and I will drive him over to meet back up with you all. He and I like to have dinner at the World Showcase a couple times a month so it'll really be no bother. Sounds like a plan, eh? 
He'd feel right at home with a "honey do" list!
