The Sitting Around Vacation

For the last five years the only kind of vacations we have taken are the go and see and do vacations, not the and do nothing ones. We got good at sight seeing and studying and learning. Today we got up with no agenda and it was hard, not that we didn’t fill the time, but it seemed lazy.It started early when Russ and I got up well before Carter and went to breakfast. Carter said she wanted to sleep in and said not to wait for her to eat. We had a lovely table on a porch overlooking a river. First we had coffee, for maybe an hour. Then we had fruit for another half an hour. A text came in from Carter that she was up. Surprise, we still haven’t really eaten breakfast. So she came to join us and we were there at least an other hour. An almost three hour breakfast is just not what we usually do on vacation, but I guess this is what vacation is.

Then we went to sit by the pool. That was a good four hours of not doing anything, but read, play some games and do a little needlepoint. Finally Russ and I got antsy, so we changed into clothes and walked the mile to the beach and back. The only thing sightseeing we did was meet an iguana. A siesta from our taxing day and then dinner and now I am exhausted from doing all this nothing.

Tomorrow looks similar. Really the three hour breakfast is the highlight. You can really talk about things in depth when you don’t have work to run off to or a dog to walk. I may not be learning any cultural history, but time spent with Russ is the best education. Carter should be fully rested and ready to learn when we get home from all this nothing.