Saturday, December 27, 2008

Taking my daughter for her first vacation trip - we will go by plane to the beach and avoid ship

Here we are four years after my daughter was born, and it is time for our first vacation trip together. The selected destination is ACA, a place i visited first in 1993 and have returned a number of times since then.

I remember how nervous I was about this trip three yeras ago. How would I manage, manage alone, and with a low level of trust from the main stakeholders. I think I have overcome thta and have hopefully decreased tension areound as weel. The recipe is as follows
* Travel with her older sister, that came up with the great idea in the first place
* Travel with a children specialist, that have raised two children and have been working in a day care center her whole professional life
* Stay in an apartment that is familiar to my daughter
* Top-up a pre-paid card for easy access back to base
* An last but not leats a father that have had time to rest before the trip, and not stumbling in as a stressed out workoholic, and is ready to protect the eight wonder from all kinds of threats.

Tomorrow we take of for MTY through ORD and the day after the one week trip will start. Just looking forward to offload a good 3/4 of my luggage in form of delayed christmas presents when we arrive in MTY. An then I hope we will get a week of real fun and the starting point for regular video calls.

And what is in the luggage this time
* Marabou Amigo Milk Chocolate
* Tequila "Polkagrisar", even though it salys lemon and salt licorice
* Kalles Kaviar - the only exemption from the SweMex cross-over candies

Stay tuned

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