QotD: Vacation All I Ever Wanted

Where do you want to go on your next vacation?
Submitted by beth.

directly from my other blog:

We’ve been talking about going to Greece since the summer, but we all just figured it would be sometime next year, during the summer or something, but with Rachel joining SCV, she won’t have ANY free time, so the optimal time to go would be over the holiday break. Well, that in conjunction with the fact that the dollar is not doing too poorly right now compared to the Euro, well the ideal time to go would be now. Even though the economy is in the toilet, and it wouldn’t be exactly CHEAP, it’s still not completely ridiculous, and it would probably be our last family trip.

The only things I don’t like about this plan is that my grandma will be alone for Christmas. We’re the reason she’s here- we moved her out here.. and even though she is having Thanksgiving at our house, it kind of breaks my heart a little to think about her being by herself on Christmas. That, and also the fact that we just won’t be here for Christmas or New Years.. no tree, no dog
I really like being at home for Christmas. I love the smell of a Christmas tree, and seeing all the lights on all the houses, and the Christmas music on the radio, and all the stores selling their Christmas decorations and cookies and cakes and pies. My goodness, I just LOVE Christmas.
But it’s not like I’ve spent every Christmas at home. I’ve spent a lot of them in Colorado or New Mexico. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad to spend it on a boat. (We’d be sailing on Christmas and New Years. and you’d think that would suck, but really, it saves us a lot of trouble. If we were docked somewhere on either of those days, NOTHING would be open. California is very different in that respect- Almost every state/country I’ve been to on holidays are complete CLOSED on those days. NOTHING is open. Not even a supermarket. Or a gas station. NOTHING.. anyway..) So it wouldn’t be too bad on the boat. They’d probably have parties and stuff, and knowing me, I’d probably have a lot of fun =)

Ugh whatever. It would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I am totally gonna take it, of course, but leaving my grandma/dog/house just kind of sucks..

Anyway, so details of the trip- We’d start in Barcelona on Dec. 21 (we’d have to fly there somehow, and then board the ship there. Then we “cruise” for a day, and on the 23 we’d dock in Tunis, Tunisia, and spend the day there. The next day will be in Valletta Malta, and then after that we cruise for two days (Christmas and Boxing Day). On the 27th, we’d dock in Piraeus(Athens), Greece and spend the day on land.  The 28th would be in Rhodes, Greece, the 29th in Limassol, Cyprus, and then 30th in Alexandria, Egypt. We’re in Egypt from 7am to 10pm, and HOPEFULLY we’ll go on a land tour to the PYRAMIDS. It is $175 per person, and a lot of walking, and a 12 hour trip, but SO FREAKIN WORTH IT. If we don’t, I’ll understand why, but I will still be pretty disappointed (hello- once in a lifetime!). After that is the 31st and 1st, both of which we will be cruising. Then the 2nd, we’ll be in Palermo (Sicily), Italy, the 3rd is cruising, and the 4th Palma De Mallorca, Spain, and then finish the cruise on the 5th back in Barcelona.

COOL, RIGHT?

Ok, I don’t have much else to say about it. I’m excited, and I hope we end up going- it’s starting to really look like we are though. =)