♪A sido largo el viaje pero al fin llegue ♫
As soon as we heard those lyrics we looked at each other and started laughing out loud. It definitely was a loooong week.
Sunday, we got up to finish packing, clean up, and wait for Julio’s parents to give us a ride to the airport. Julian had spent the weekend with them so our family vacation trip to Florida was a surprise for him. Our flight was very good. Julian behaved and Gabby slept for most of it. We picked up a rental car and got to the resort. We immediately had to change and go to the beach. The water was warm and the weather was amazing.
Monday, we started to realize that the resort was not like what the websites had pictured. It was old and the room, when looked at closely, looked as if it had sustained water damage from a hurricane or flood. We didn’t care too much because we were spending most of the time in the pool or in the beach.
Tuesday, I started getting annoyed because the service people would come to clean but the rugs were never vacuumed. We kept tracking in a lot of sand. I still didn’t complain because we were having too much fun. Julian and Gabby were fish. They loved the water and didn’t want to leave. I also started to LOVE our family naptime. We all napped at the same time. I love to sleep so this was one of the highlights of our vacation.
Wednesday, another day of fun. We went to this great restaurant called The Island Cow. I loved the food, the décor and the service. We spent our regularly scheduled times on the beach, in the pool and our family naptime. Gabby had been hard at work taking steps and finally walked about 14 steps across the room without just taking a stroll. I was so proud.
Thursday, I was fed up with the room service. I had to complain about the cleanliness of the room and they immediately remedied the situation. To make matters worse, it rained the WHOLE day. If you have kids then you know how hard it is to manage two restless kids in a tiny room for several hours. We found a movie theater nearby and decided to try getting the kids to watch the new Cars movie. BIG MISTAKE. Julio stayed and watched the movie with Julian but I had to stay in the car with Gabby for a whole hour. That night had an extremely early bedtime.
There really wasnt anything else to do...
Friday, we had breakfast and were going to meet some friends that were driving four hours to see us. All of the sudden, Julio gets a phone call and starts scrambling around. He turns around with eyes wide open and tells me that he got the dates wrong and that our plane was leaving in two hours!!! Without saying a word, I took out all the suitcases and started shoving them with all of our stuff. I got everything packed in 15 minutes. That had to be a record! To reschedule the flight and stay another night would have cost us a fortune so off we went. We checked out and Julio drove 90mph to return the rental car. We got to the airport just in the nick of time. Because we hadn’t worked out our nap schedules, the kids did not want to nap during the flight so we became “those” people with the loud kids on the plane. It was also delayed an hour due to thunderstorms. My parents picked us up and were delivered to my house. Home sweet home.
Looking back, overall we had a good time. The kids had fun; we relaxed, and were together. One big happy family.
Two lessons learned:
1.) It doesn’t matter the situation you are in. What matters is how you handle it. I could have thrown a fit over the bad parts but I just went with the flow and it all turned into a funny, crazy, memory….
2.) Never let your husband plan a vacation alone…
I'm so happy, you enjoyed it. It does get a lil' complicated when you have kids and your on a vacation but us moms definitively have to have our kids with us in times like that, in order to be worry free and enjoy it.
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