Vacations

Just a few thoughts I've accumulated over the last 9 days as we've been off having fun with family members.

Vacations can be great when someone has been working w-a-y too hard.

Vacations are so much better when you know that your house is being so very well taken care of in your absence.

It's a real treat to actually see the sunshine in the darkest days of January.

Public restrooms are so much better when the locks on the stall doors actually work. (I got walked in on today. She felt really bad.)

Don't like it when the tire pressure light on the rental car keeps coming on even though we've checked and re-checked the tire pressure.

Some people have a hard time taking a road trip without sitting on a pillow for their sore bum.

Some other people like to eat their way along the road.

Pizza with pineapple and ham is appreciated when you're the only one in the group that likes it, but you manage to get it anyway.

Grandchilluns who act like they love their grandparents absolutely cause indescribable joy in the heart of said grandparents.

Grown children who are kind and generous to their parents cause nearly the same joy. Thanks, Kids.

My favorite ride at Disneyland is STILL the Maliboomer. Should have ridden it again!

It's A Small World ride at same Disneyland somehow is a bit more tolerable with Jingle Bells integrated into it. (The song didn't go round and round in my head all night that way.)

Love the kind security guy at the Pinocchio parking area at Disneyland who came to our rescue with his contraption for starting the rental car with the completely dead battery. Still trying to figure out how that happened.

Love that the grandchilluns seemed to like riding the rides with us.

Wii is great fun with the grandchilluns.

I'm totally awful at those rides where you have to shoot at things for points and a hopefully high score. (Never will happen in my lifetime - high score that is.)

Disneyland should have a better variety food with better prices.

The first restroom inside the park should be avoided at all costs. Hold it until you can find another one.

Discounts should be given (still talking Disneyland here) according to the amount of the park shut down for whatever reason: new construction, re-furbishing, updating, whatever. The more things you can't do, the bigger the discount. (Maybe some free food as compensation?)

There should be more shuttles from the park to the parking at the end of the day so as to avoid that trampling thing that we nearly lost part of our family group to.

And the best part of the vacation: sleeping in my own bed tonight, showering in my own shower, getting the 9 days of mail sorted, distributed, paid or tossed - all of this while enjoying the memories of a fun-filled festive time with My Love and the rest of the family we saw. Fills my heart with gratitude!