We’re just back from our three-day trip to Pennsylvania last week and I spent the weekend engaged in the very pressing and prosaic matters of putting away decorations and cleaning out the boys’ room and playroom. But lest you worry that I have decided to make myself overly comfortable here in Delaware, let me reassure you: I’m resolved to make 2010 a year of as much travel as I can possibly squeeze in with trips from Arizona to England and lots of places in between. And to prove my point, I’ve got not one but two trips planned in January.
The first of these two adventures is back to Waitsfield, Vermont to see my father and stepmother and get the other three members of my family on downhill skis for the first time in their lives. I’ve written before about how I’d always planned to raise my children as skiers (and Mad River skiers at that – this post explains why) but that circumstances like the geography of Matt’s professional life have thus far interfered.
Given that my parents do live there and that we travel all the time, this now seems very lame. I know that the diehards on the mountain would rightly cut me no slack and I’ll just have to ask their forgiveness as I make what is sure to be my own embarrassing first descent since I haven’t worn downhill skis myself for nearly two decades.
And excuses aside, today I’m dreaming of our first winter weekend in Vermont as a family. If all goes as planned, we’ll have three full days over the Martin Luther King Day weekend and I’m hoping that the weather cooperates and our hardest decision is whether we want to spend all of them skiing at Mad River Glen or whether we might want some time snowshoeing in the woods too.
Although now that I’ve written those words I realize that all I really want is for the boys to put on skis, point them down the mountain, and decide that they never, ever want to take them off. And then I’ll just have to add another resolution, which is to put another regular trip on our yearly itinerary.
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Good luck with the skiing. I’m teaching my kiddo this year, or the ski instructor will, whoever has more patience.
I got me a resolution this year, and got it all linked up for you already. Glad to be back Monday Dreaming.
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Wow, I’d love to go skiing with the kids. I’ve not been for twenty years either, but it’s definitely on my dreaming list!
.-= Victoria´s last blog ..I think it’s really happening… =-.
I have resolved to get our family’s passports this year — this month, in fact. I am the only one of the four of us who has been abroad, and I’d like to remedy that soon.
On the books already this year are promises to go to, of all places, Cave City and Bowling Green, Kentucky. Miles has requested a visit to Dinosaur World in Cave City for his tenth birthday. While we’re there, we plan to also visit Mammoth Cave and the attractions of Bowling Green. My husband and I met at Western Kentucky University at grad school and haven’t returned to Bowling Green since graduating.
The boys also want to visit the Shaker Museum where I interned, and which was the site of one of their favorite Mommy stories: The day Mommy led 25 kindergarten students into the basement of a 19th century building to wait out a tornado. We’ll have to drive by our old apartment, which is the site of the punch line of that story: Daddy slept through the tornado even though pick up trucks down the block were picked up and smashed to the ground by the twister.
Other potential trips: a private island in the Georgian Bay of Canada, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and possibly Montauk on Long Island to do a little Percy Jackson-tripping.
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Three trip resolutions: One, to get over to Perth, a long-promised, much-delayed destination. Two, to get up to Bundaberg, which is in Queensland and where my only cousin on the whole continent lives (similarly long-promised, much-delayed). And three, the Big Mama of them all: the three-week trip to the US in August. We will definitely be staying in NJ, of course, but I am near certain that we will also go to DC and I am resolute that we should stop-over in LA as well. There are so many people to visit!!
What I really want, I mean REALLY, is to get that trip to Cambodia to see the PwP school with the PwP crew. More than anything. If I can do that, any place else I end up during the year is gravy. Though hey, I am hoping to be in NYC for TBEX.
We have lots of trips small trips planned for this year rather than one big blowout, and my goal is to make sure they all happen! We just finished Santa Fe. Future plans include long weekends in Seattle and Central Oregon, a trip to Canada, and a Washington D.C./NYC trip in the summer. Hopefully, some other opportunities will come along as well!
Just spent two days in Vermont…first trip there and LOVED every second of it! My daughter announced she wants to live there, and I can’t wait to go back. Definitely plan to do some snowshoeing and get in some x country and downhill skiing.