I don't know much about my readers, but I'm always curious who reads my blog. I sometimes review my viewership stats and the vast majority of my readers are out of the U.S. (which makes sense), but unfortunately, whenever I look through my blog to edit it, that also counts as a view so my stats are artificially larger because of my views. But that's all beside the point...
I'm trying to make some vacation plans for when I get home from this deployment. I have ample vacation time saved up and I'd like to go someplace fun and interesting. Unfortunately Michelle (my wife) thinks we should postpone any such plans. However, we've been talking and making plans to possibly have more children. I'd like to have a little girl. Michelle wants either no more or two more to make a round 4 total. I'm content with 2-3. My issue is that if we don't take this time to travel there won't be a better time. Traveling with young children is tough, but if we're traveling with a baby it will be much more difficult. What I'm wondering, is do you have children? And if so, do you go on vacation? Or maybe mini-vacations where you don't really go anywhere? I don't remember much from my childhood but I do seem to remember going on vacation even when I was very young and my brother much younger. There was a big difference though, my family NEVER flew anywhere for vacation. Even when we went to Colorado, we drove all the way!
My options are open for vacation. It is much more expensive, but we could try to go home to Ohio. Honestly, I don't think that's worth the expense. It would be nice to see family again but it would be over $1000/person for plane tickets. I'd like to take my family to visit Korea. Since I speak Korean I could be their personal guide. There's tons of great places to ski and it would be fun to teach the boys skiing. And of course I'd get to practice all the Korean I wanted. Then of course we could go pretty much ANYWHERE in the S Pacific. The options are endless, we even discussed going to New Zealand or Australia. It's a bit tough choosing to leave the island because we live in a vacation paradise and every weekend is like a mini-vacation. But, I'd like to go out and explore the world around the tiny island and I think it'd be a great experience for our family.
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| The boys enjoying dinner on the beach |
