Everything you do is an opportunity to learn, and vacation
is no exception.
Some of the things I learned while at the beach the last few
days:
1.
The best
things in life REALLY can be free.
Aiden had a shark tooth necklace we bought
on another trip to the beach, but the tooth was sharp and he didn’t like
wearing it. I went into one of the gifts
shops and spent time finding him a new one that wasn’t sharp, and also got him
a “Moon Ball,” a small ball with unpredictable bounces, which was somthing I
thought would be right up his alley.
When I went to pay, the clerk asked me how old my child was and I told
her he was 11. She said they had a batch
of faulty mood rings, and that she hated to just throw them all away and she
gave me a handful for him. While he
likes the necklace and ball, guess what was the most used thing on vacation? And not just by Aiden! We are all now experts in what mood ring
colors mean.
2.
Don’t
ever trust the weather predictions a week in advance.
Ok, so I already knew that
one. Especially in Florida. But I was particularly perturbed this time as
a week ago the prediction was temperature in the 80’s and sunny. Yesterday never got out of the 60’s and was
rainy and dreary.
3.
Males are crazy.
Ok, so I already knew this one
too. As I said, yesterday never got out
of the 60’s and was rainy and dreary.
Aiden and Bryant still went swimming in the Gulf!
4.
Circle K “cappucino” tastes really good when you
are cold.
I went and got hot coffee, wearing
my hoodie, while the guys were swimming.
5.
You will never use the amenities you look for
when booking a room.
We had a full kitchen: we used the refrigerator to put drinks in and
reheated some leftovers from our takeout lunch in the microwave. I couldn’t tell you if the stove or oven even
worked. We had a heated pool: see lesson #3. There was a DVD library for rainy days: Aiden insisted on checking out a movie as
soon as the office opened on Tuesday morning.
We never watched it. And last but
not least, we had a 1 bedroom cottage: there
was a queen bed in the main room and a full bed in the bedroom. No one used the bedroom. Aiden insisted on sleeping on the futon in
the main room!
6.
Sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks,
if they are a younger old dog.
This is the same beach we were married at
and stayed for a few days at a year ago.
There is a Creperie that I and my friend Lynn wanted to eat at, but
never got around to it. Very French
menu, not traditional American meals.
Well, I got the guys to eat there for brunch today. The guys that both have their “go-to” item at
every restaurant we ever go to and rarely vary.
While Bryant found it “OK”, much to his surprise, after asking me 50
times what a crepe was on the way there, Aiden really liked it. He had the “French Breakfast,” two crepes
filled with strawberry filling, a croissant, and bacon. He wants to go back sometime for a chocolate
crepe. I think we will, and we’re going
to take Lynn!
7.
Sometimes old dogs don’t like new tricks.
I learned to type on an ancient
50-lb typewriter. I like keyboards. I took my new tablet with me on vacation, and
wrote a blog on it while I was there. I
do not like typing that much on the virtual keyboard. I’m typing this one on my laptop.
8.
Last but not least, I need to live at the beach.
I have a lot of
allergies....particularly to pollens, orange blossoms, pollutants, various
chemicals like pesticides, various grasses and plants...you know, things they
don’t have at the beach. While I woke up
Monday morning sneezing my head off, an hour after arriving at the beach, my
body forgot what allergies were. It
remembered again as we got about 15 minutes away from our house on the drive
home. It’s for my health, we need to do
it! I am insisting!
Unfortunately, now we are back home and I’m doing
laundry. Yep, that’s why they have
wine. Perhaps that is why my husband
just came back from the grocery store with some...
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