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Vacation, the idea and the reality
Feb. 10th, 2012 10:29 amA Vacation (or as some call it Holiday) is, in terms of human history, a pretty new concept. Taking time off from work use was an odd concept that really could only be implemented after the Industrial Revolution and the changes that this brought to society.
When I was a child, there was summer vacation from school and our family vacation where we took a week and, once we lived in Atlanta, went down to St. Augustine for a family vacation. My parents still do this trek once a year and invite us to join them for the week. For the longest time vacation to me was either visiting my grandparents and other relatives or the beach.
My father went to Disneyland when he was a young man and brought back a souvenir program that I flipped through and looked at the pictures when I was young and read when I was older. Eventually I got to go to Disneyland with my family on a family trip to California. Disney World happened about the time that Epcot opened up.
For Peter and me, the Disney parks are a touchstone for us. It is really one of the few places that we go and vacation. We may go lot of interesting places, but that is connected to a convention or some other obligations that we have and I am grateful for all those experiences. However, our experience at Disney are of our own time and making. It is our vacation spot.
At the end of last year, Peter and Ariel went down to Florida to go to see Shana’s movie Theater (Hey Jacksonville, you have a really cool movie theater in your city. Go visit it) and they made a visit to DisneyWorld. They caught up with friends, saw old sites, and new sites. Just a short vacation from all that had been going on.
Next week I am off to DisneyWorld to spend sometime with friends that I don’t get to see enough. We have a couple of things planned out but we are down there to vacation. To just take a pause and not worry about the world outside the gates of the Mouse. Caroline will be staying here with Peter since she has school and they are doing pre-testing for the state test she is taking in a couple of months.
This will give me a week’s vacation where I don’t have to worry about all the stuff I have to worry about when I am at home. It won’t be that I won’t think about my home or what is going on but I really can’t do much from Florida so it will be a little more academic. Caroline and I are going to talk and do face-time. She understands why I am going down there without her but she measures that against the time that she spent in California with Daddy which was her vacation to her. She is a pretty pragmatic little girl.
So this weekend is about getting ready for Vacation, Farpoint, and other things that need to happen once I return home.
We have learned that some down time does wonderful things for our brains. I know that I come back feeling better than when I left but I did have to learn to pace myself. So next week may be a little light on the blogging but I do plan to tweet my Disney experience along with my facebook page updates and probably take those and make an entry out of it.
I am grateful for the ability to take a vacation.
When I was a child, there was summer vacation from school and our family vacation where we took a week and, once we lived in Atlanta, went down to St. Augustine for a family vacation. My parents still do this trek once a year and invite us to join them for the week. For the longest time vacation to me was either visiting my grandparents and other relatives or the beach.
My father went to Disneyland when he was a young man and brought back a souvenir program that I flipped through and looked at the pictures when I was young and read when I was older. Eventually I got to go to Disneyland with my family on a family trip to California. Disney World happened about the time that Epcot opened up.
For Peter and me, the Disney parks are a touchstone for us. It is really one of the few places that we go and vacation. We may go lot of interesting places, but that is connected to a convention or some other obligations that we have and I am grateful for all those experiences. However, our experience at Disney are of our own time and making. It is our vacation spot.
At the end of last year, Peter and Ariel went down to Florida to go to see Shana’s movie Theater (Hey Jacksonville, you have a really cool movie theater in your city. Go visit it) and they made a visit to DisneyWorld. They caught up with friends, saw old sites, and new sites. Just a short vacation from all that had been going on.
Next week I am off to DisneyWorld to spend sometime with friends that I don’t get to see enough. We have a couple of things planned out but we are down there to vacation. To just take a pause and not worry about the world outside the gates of the Mouse. Caroline will be staying here with Peter since she has school and they are doing pre-testing for the state test she is taking in a couple of months.
This will give me a week’s vacation where I don’t have to worry about all the stuff I have to worry about when I am at home. It won’t be that I won’t think about my home or what is going on but I really can’t do much from Florida so it will be a little more academic. Caroline and I are going to talk and do face-time. She understands why I am going down there without her but she measures that against the time that she spent in California with Daddy which was her vacation to her. She is a pretty pragmatic little girl.
So this weekend is about getting ready for Vacation, Farpoint, and other things that need to happen once I return home.
We have learned that some down time does wonderful things for our brains. I know that I come back feeling better than when I left but I did have to learn to pace myself. So next week may be a little light on the blogging but I do plan to tweet my Disney experience along with my facebook page updates and probably take those and make an entry out of it.
I am grateful for the ability to take a vacation.
