Well we're back from vacation. This trip definitely had it's highs and lows. It wasn't what I'd hoped it would be, but it wasn't bad either. I think the worst thing was it was just so damn hot and humid and my grandmother doesn't have air conditioning, so we were wet and sticky the entire time. And for reasons still unknown to me, we spent a lot of time getting lost. At one point we found ourselves on a winding mountain road in the middle of the night trying to get ourselves from a beach in Orange County to my grandmother's in Fallbrook. I'm still unclear on how that happened. But on the bright side, Alex had a great time with his Great Grandma and he even got to play with his cousins Vincent and Raquel. John got to spend two days at the Geek Convention and we (John, Alex and I) got to spend some quality time as a family that we haven't had since Alex was a newborn.
I knew that our vacations would radically change when we had a baby. In the old days John and I would go out on the town, eat at expensive restaurants and have great hotel sex every night. We'd go to the beach and play in the ocean, we'd go shopping, we'd get drunk in the hotel bar, we'd stay up late watching bad cable shows and sleep in until noon. Vacations were truly relaxing and fun and carefree. This vacation, after schlepping a ridiculous amount of luggage from the airport to the car rental place to my grandmother's and then back again, we struggled with a broken stroller, Alex's skin allergies, off schedule feedings and naps, trying to navigate said broken stroller through hordes of sweaty geeks (at ComicCon), waking at 6AM like clockwork every morning for Alex's morning bottle and snuggles... it really felt more like work than vacation.
But, even though this wasn't the perfect vacation by my pre-Alex standards, this vacation offered memories I'll have forever:
- John trying (successfully!) to fix our broken stroller in a hot parking garage.
- John also handled the bulk of the baby wrangling which gave me the opportunity to watch my boys interacting.
- Alex's first reaction to the waves at the beach (laughing)
- John stopping dead in his tracks as we're walking back to the car from the beach and saying "I really love you"
- Driving (lost!) on a mountain road in the middle of the night thinking about how we'll probably break down and get killed by wild California bears and John, always the optimist, saying "Well, I'm sure this is a real scenic drive in the daytime"
- Getting to take morning "family naps" with Alex snuggled between us
- Watching Alex play with my grandma, her trying to teach him "patty cake" and him "helping" her pick oranges
- Feeling happy when we landed in Utah and felt the wonderful dry, dry heat.
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