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People who get to go on fancy vacations
to the OBX and Aruba can kiss my tookus.
I need a vacation. Other than a long weekend in Chicago in August, the rest of my PTO will be consumed with holiday season trips to see the fam. That makes me a little sad.
Question: When visiting a beach, are you the type to read a book and do little more than rotisserie yourself all day? Or do you need an activity? If so, what's your preferred beach activity -- games, snorkeling, etc?
If I have a good book, a shade umbrella, and somebody bringing me cocktails, I can probably go sun up to sun down.
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Re: People who get to go on fancy vacations
Me too. I turned down a free cruise today and I'm pretty sure we're pushing our big vacation until next year based on the fear that our air conditioner will poop out and we'll really wish we hadn't spent that monies.
I love swimming in the ocean, so I usually alternate between sitting under the umbrella reading/sleeping and swimming. I can't be in the sun for very long thanks to my melanin deficiency. I also like to fish with my dad if it's not crowded.
The nerve!
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I am sooo not a beach person. We've been to the beach once in almost 2 years, and we live 10 minutes from the ocean.
Generally I try to stay as covered as I can (my skin is extremely fair) and bring a book.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
I need these things, plus snacks and easy access to a clean bathroom. Depending on the temperature and roughness of the water, I might swim, but I'm usually not interested in beach games or water sports.
ETA: I'm going to New Orleans tonight and to Alaska in August, so you probably hate me.
The only vacation in my foreseeable future is to the magical land of Oswego, NY to visit my ILs. I know you all hate me right now. But hey, at least there's going to be a cute new baby involved.
If I have a book and a drink I'm happy to lay on the beach until someone drags me away. Unfortunately H is not a beach fan so those types of vacations are few and far between for me.
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I need equal time doing nothing and doing something. I love the ocean and most of my beach trips involve scuba diving, or at least snorkeling.
I have a side complaint involving a "vacation": we are going to SF this weekend at the request of Dan's mom. I asked her what her specific plans for us were, specifying that I wanted to go out to have coffee or a meal with my good friend who hasn't met Sean yet (see: Mod). She totally ignored my actual request (which was in writing even) and told me I would be welcome to invite her to the house for sandwiches.
Seriously, does she have to control everything all the time? I wasn't asking permission, b!tch.
Hey Mod, want to come over to my inlaws' place in El Sobrante for sandwiches?
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I'm hiding under Bethie's beach umbrella. I'd prefer to go on a vacation elsewhere. But we happen to live like 10 minutes from the beach, so lots of people that come to visit us want to go. I enjoy playing in the sand with the kids for like, five minutes, and then I want to play in the ocean for another ten minutes, and then I could happily go home.
I do really enjoy snorkeling and kayaking though, so when we've gone to Catalina with the family I make Lorne do those things with me. Though some of the fish at Catalina are way, way to comfortable with people and expect you to feed them and they kind of freak me out. Giant garibaldi fish should not swim at my face looking like this:
We also like to rent bikes and take walks and stuff...but those usually take place away from the beach.
I'm deprived when it comes to vacations. I imagine I would be extremely content to just sit on the beach with a shade umbrella and read with a two hour nap thrown in for good measure. That's how I spend my day when we go camping (minus the beach umbrella).
I feel like I should do more when I'm on vacation though. When we went to Hawaii, I was actually quite happy just sitting on my ILs' couch and enjoying the view. I could have sat there all week. But I'm glad we went to check out the volcano, went on a boat tour, and snorkeled. I would have enjoyed some more activities as well -- like zip lining and kayaking.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
If I wasn't on the verge of popping a kid out I'd totally make Lorne drive with me to SF this weekend so Mod and I could kidnap you.
Lindsay, I actually mentioned the exact same activities that you did in my post below - sitting in the shade, reading, and drinking. Like Bob, I'm VERY fair. So even if I put on 45 SPF, I still can't sit in the sun for more than 5 minutes at a time, or I'm burnt to a crisp. I do love playing in the waves, but again, the sun frightens me (after many a childhood trip to the ER with sun poisoning while on vacation)
I do love to scuba dive but I'm not sure I'll get a chance this trip. Plus, nobody in the family does it but me. Unfortunately, I don't like to snorkel (the current at the surface of the water always gets me seasick).
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Oddly, I prefer the Oregon Coast if I'm going to get my beach on. It's not super hot, there are giant rocks you can climb, there's lots of good beer nearby.
Sniff. If only.
The whole reason we're going is that Dan's brother and SIL are packing up their two kids and moving to Australia next week, and she's having some sort of goodbye party. This leaves us as the sole children stateside and sole targets of her meddling and busybodyness.
OMIGAH I forgot to tell my FB tale of woe. I did not tell Dan that she is blocked from seeing most things on my FB page, although I did accept her friend request. He was talking to her on the phone and told her I had put some Sean photos up (I was staring at him wide eyed and made the kill it sign, but he paid no attention). She freaked out, saying she had suspected that I had blocked her but now she knew for sure and started crying. Dan got mad at me. Sigh.
GAH FACEBOOK HOW I HATE YOU SO. Now she's going to bring it up this weekend. Awk. ward.
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I just spent a weeks vacation at my house with my MIL so I am jealous of any real vacations.
I love the ocean, the beach not so much and I hate the sun, which is odd since I spent pretty much every summer day of my childhood at the beach. I'd rather sit at a bar overlooking the ocean or be on a boat.
We used to swim in Puget Sound all the time as kids, until our lips would turn blue. I don't know how we did it.
I'm a big fan of bobbing in the waves. Plus, it's easier to pee in the ocean than find a bathroom and deal with a wet bathing suit.
Secondary question: If you are at the pool, your bathing suit is wet and you have to go to the bathroom do you:
a -- Find a toilet and pull the crotch to the side
2 -- Find a toilet and deal with getting the suit down and back up
or
healthdepartment -- There's definitely "P" in all the pools I've visited.
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Our only beach vacation was our honeymoon. It was the perfect place to decompress and recup from the wedding stress. I plopped on a covered beach bed cabana thing, had a stack of books, had Jorge frequently refill my pina coladas and I was a happy girl all day. :-) DH got antsy so he did some snorkeling and played beach volleyball with a whole bunch of people from Wisconsin.
I'm MUCH more of a trek around Europe kind of traveler. I need historic places to see and tours to take and cool streets lined with shops to wander down. After living in Rome for awhile I am completely in love with Italy and Europe fo sho.
ETA: Ummm...oops. Must have signed in with a different e-mail. This is MrsKizdoodle. Pretend there are 2 cute dogs in my sig line. :-)
Shamon, sister.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
Oh no. Oh no. This is like my worst nightmare. Luckily Brett and I are on the same page as far as FB blocking his mom but if she ever finds out it will be awful. I want to figure out some amazing excuse to save you from going now.
My grandma was really weird about me seeing Winged in Houston too. She kept asking why I didn't want to spend more time with them (while they were doing stuff like driving to the airport my uncle used to work at to look at it) and then we got into a fight when we got back about how I don't respect my family. So basically it's Winged's fault that my grandma hates me now.
The nerve!
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"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Seriously, right? He knows how nosy and judgy she is. "Well I don't block YOUR mom..." Well yeah, but (a) if you did I wouldn't care and (b) my mom is awesome and not crazy.
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
This is the first summer where we haven't gone somewhere for more than a day or two because, well, in the spring I was pregnant and we were saving for a baby. Now, no baby and no vacation.
We do take quite a number of smaller day and weekend trips throughout the year, so I am not fully deprived, but there are so many places I want to go to and things I want to see, that the Boston-Philly-Baltimore-NY-D.C. circuit we've been on for the past two-three years is getting old. I mean, I LOVE all those places, but I'm ready to do something bigger/get farther away.
As far as the beach, I plop my ass down and read. Sometimes I walk, and sometimes I cool off in the waves, but for the most, I'm sedate. I just wish my husband liked the beach. He only likes it in the winter, because no one is there, but then you can't enjoy it because it's freezing. He's weird.
Yup, that's my husband's school of thought right there.
I don't mind sitting and reading for a bit, but I do need some shade as I am a white shade of pale. Plus who wants to read with the sun reflecting off the white pages of your book and into your eyes?
My perfect vacation spot as a kid was Wildwood because my aunt and cousin would rotisserie themselves on the beach and I was free to wander the boardwalk eating mozzarella sticks, drinking smoothies, looking at touristy shops, and doing some REAL people watching. Now, though, I'm definitely on HT's surfboard. I need snacks, drinks, and proximity to a clean bathroom.
Oh, and boogie boarding is a blast, too. We did that when we were in Daytona a few years ago and it was as fun as I remembered it being when I was 10. But that's probably good for about a day.
As for jealousy, I think I'm going to Disney in October or so so I will content myself with that.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Normally I am a travel person, I wanna go somewhere and find the locals, see everything and stay busy. The idea of laying on a beach for days wouldn't have done it for me. That being said in May my cousin got married in Cabo and my Dad took us all. We did nothing for 5 days but party with our whole extended family and lay out in the ocean/pool and drink. It was amazing and I am suddenly learning I may like this whole relaxing thing more then I thought.
I love the beach with all my heart. I could lay there all day with a good book and cold drinks-even if it's just water. I love the ocean and the pool. Swimming and playing in the waves is the only acceptable beach activity for me except maybe a walk. My a$$ does not need to be running or jumping in a bathing suit, thank you very much.
We will only do weekend trips to the shore this year (one this weekend!) since I'm cookin' some humans. We are already planning our bermuda trip for our 5th anniversary, sans kids, though. We also have to miss Hilton Head this year since the trip coincides with Baby Time so we need something to look forward to in order to stay sane!
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
We never would have guessed.
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