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Worst vacation?
We have all had a bad one, so what was your worst vacation?
Re: Worst vacation?
Its a tie for 2...
In HS we took a family trip to the Ozarks. While the Ozarks are a great time, I was really really irritated that my then bf couldn't come with us. This was before I had a cell phone so I bought a calling card and would sit at the pay phone bank in the middle of the condo complex pouting to him on the phone. Plus I slept on our boat because I refused to share a room with my 14yo sister who snored and would kick me in her sleep. Unfortunately the boat didnt have A/C and there were these redneck middle-aged guys staying in the complex as well who would fish and drink beer til about 3 am every night and I would have to listen to them clean their fish and talk all night.
The 2nd was in 2007 when I went to Fripp Island, SC with DH's family. Aunts/Uncles/cousins/parents/siblings, etc... all in one rental house. My grandma passed away the week before and I drove from Iowa to Kentucky on Saturday afternoon after the funeral and a cousin's wedding, got in the car with DH about 10 pm and drove to SC arriving sometime around 10 am Sunday. At least I was spared carpooling on the way there. I really wasn't in the mood for family time and would cry at the drop of a hat. Plus FIL is just annoying and after a week I was ready to kill him. Then DH's cousin got violently ill in the car on the way back from a dinner one night. We pulled over 6 times between the restaurant and the house (about a 10 mile trip). We had to share a bathroom with him for the remaining 2 days of vacation -- miserable. I couldn't have been happier to miss the family vacation last year due to our wedding/HM. I haven't figured out how to get out of 2011's trip yet.
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Ocean City, MD 2007.
My whole family drove down, at the time I was living in my apt with DH (then not yet engaged). My parents rented out a house not far from the beach for a week. DH didn't really want me to go the full week & use up all my vacation days (I later found out that this was bc he wanted to make the NYC trip we had planned for that winter REALLY long and awesome, and that he was going to propose then). So I gave in, and I opted to go for half the week (I figured it was a happy medium between what the family wanted and what DH wanted), and I got a lot of crap about it from my family.
DH had never been close with my fam, but decided to come along to be with me, and the first night after we got to MD, there ended up being a big drunken blowout between my sister, DH and me, basically all of the bro/sisters & significant others ended up chiming in telling us that we were, I dont know, being a bad part of the family or whatever. I was stuck in the middle of this stupid thing, when all along I was just trying to find middle ground to please everyone. It was easily the worst night of my life. I almost decided to drive home that next morning, but we sucked it up for 3 more days of hell ? lots of very childish behavior went on (shunning and trash talking behind our backs). Such an awkward, un-fun vacation.
DH still isn't "close" with my family, but everyone has since been on good terms with eachother. I guess whatever everyone's issue was, they got it off their chest in MD...
Austin, TX - New Year's Eve - 2004/2005
My then-boyfriend and I went to visit my BFF and her boyfriend (now husband! They got married yesterday!) for New Year's Eve. The trip itself actually wasn't that bad -- I had an awesome time hanging out with the people we were visiting
. The only real "trip" downside was the hilariously awkward NYE party we attended. It was at a resort out in Hill Country and it promised a formal dinner (which it had - tasty!), an after party with a live band and open bar (which it had...except the band, and all the other guests, were late 40s and older and there were about 30 people total there, including us four twenty-somethings), and a fireworks display (which it had...shot off from the parking lot by resort staff who clearly bought the fireworks down the street).
That wasn't the hideous part. Then-boyfriend (we'll call him "TB" for "then-boyfriend) and I fought almost the entire time. I was really young and didn't realize, at that point, just how controlling he was. For example -- the week prior, I'd had a small cold. On the plane, my sinuses got really clogged. As we were landing, they exploded -- I mean, exploded. I was in so much pain, my nose was gushing, tears were pouring down my face. TB's reaction? "If you took better care of yourself, you wouldn't get sick and this wouldn't happen." Fast forward to day two of our trip (on a Friday night). A friend of mine, not knowing we were 2 hours ahead of CA time, drunk dialed me. It was only about 10pm CA time, but we were already asleep. I answered and talked to my friend for a bit. TB gets pissed at me for (1) not having my phone on silent, (2) answering the call, and (3) "allowing" my friends to drunk dial me. We get in a whispering fight because BFF's boyfriend only has a one bedroom apartment and we're currently sleeping on an air mattress in the living room right outside their bedroom. But the piece de resistance was when we got home, TB gave me a letter about his "thoughts" from the trip, which included a *lovely* piece about how he thought I ate too much and, as a girl, I shouldn't have been able to finish the same meal he ordered and how (and this part I love to quote) "our relationship can't ever move forward unless you can get down to a healthier weight." I'm still not sure why it took me another six months to finally break up with him...