Trying to get out of the winter slump. I decided we would take a vacation in December. The thought of getting away from old man winter had my curiosity going. The mere thought of Florida is sure inviting when the weather here is in the teens and seventy there. Beaches. Amusement parks wow what a great idea. even if it is a twelve-hour drive.
As my eye was slowly pulled apart, I came to the conclusion my children were no longer asleep. The sound of are we, are we, are we really in florida, as my youngest daughter is jumping on the bed to help me awake. The sun was barely beginning to creep into the room. It reminded me of sand in an hourglass just gently moving along. I rolled over to look at my beautiful wife, but wait, where is she? The covers were piled three feet high with an array of pillows on top of everything else, then it moved and spoke. “Be quite” the pile said. Oh no it’s eating my wife, I thought. Then the girls were begging to go to the hot tub,” lease, please, please,” stammered Cassidy. I agreed and we got ready to go for a swim. Here we are in sunny florida getting up at 6:00 a.m. to go swimming after driving fourteen hours in mayhem traffic. We’re as cute as a 1937 chevy roadsters painted plaid with poka-dots. My snow-white legs sticking out of a pair of board shorts with knee-high tube socks, I just was hoping nobody would see us on our way down to the hot tub. When we got to the front door, I had a dreadful thought. Why was no one else in the hot tub when we looked out our window? I just dismissed it as it must just be too early for Floridians.
As I opened the door, I came to the reality of why no one was here. Thirty - one degree, this can’t be possible we’re in florida. “Come on dad we’re used to this”yelled Caitlin as she took off running. I couldn’t move. I was frozen stiff already and the thought of being wet made it ten times more divi cults to continue moving forward. the noise my children were making sounded like forty kids, three goats, two elephants, and a pig. How could two children make so much noise I thought to myself? When I finally made my way to the edge of the pool, I thought it took me an hour to go twenty-five feet. I tarted the long drawn out process of beginning to strip down too just my swimsuit.i had to fold, stack, and lay my clothing just right so the wind would not blow them around.all was for not, for just as I had it all perfectly neat, I looked back and my daughter was standing there dripping all over it. How can it get any worse ? Well we have two hot tubs to choose from, wait a brainstorm,” girls you get in one and I’ll get in one.”I’m finally learning, “I need to stetch out,” I said aloud.i thought about the best way to get in the hot, steamy water, that had created a gentle fog around the Pools. It reminded me of a scary movie only lacking the darkness outside. With a plunge, I had dismissed the thought of easing into the water. As I jumped in with reckless abandon . All the air was wisped out of my body and I was standing back beside the hot tub. Only it wasn’t hot. How can this be as I looked around in amazement? Hot tubs something is wrong with this assessment, they need to call this the cold tub .When I finally calm down, I hear the sound of laughter and as I turn in disgust, see my too perfect angels rolling on their backs like a cow scratching itself. When you go on a vacation, things aren’t always what they appear to be .Look closely before jumping to conclusions.its not how long you have for vacation but how you spend the time enjoying each and every moment.