Vacationing is fun …
Vacations can be a lot of fun; a plane trip to a far away place, spending quality time with friends and loved ones, lounging on the beach or around a pool, seeing the sights, trying new foods at expensive restaurants. Or … vacations can be something altogether different.
Mel and I had planned a trip to Florida to visit my good friend John who I only get to see once a year near his birthday. He moved to Florida several years ago and the only year I have missed visiting is the year Mel and I got married. Our trip was scheduled to start this week, actually. We would be on a flight headed to Orlando in just a few days. We had tickets purchased and a rental car reserved, a convertible even. Everything was planned. Everything but the vacation time that is.
I have to bid for my vacation time for the whole year in March each year. It can be very difficult to plan, especially when you have to coordinate with your wife’s work schedule. Add to that the fact that I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast most days and you can probably imagine the disaster that I’m about to describe.
Like I said, my vacation was scheduled for next week … my vacation time scheduled for this week. I did manage to get the plane tickets canceled, but not refunded. We’ll have to plan a trip within the next year to use our $1100 credit with Southwest Airlines.
I’ll write another post later today or tomorrow to tell you what I actually did with the time off. That’s another story.