Vacation, to me, consists of vegetating. You know, sitting around the house, reading books, watching movies, sleeping… My strategy for vacations is to do so much nothing that I will get sick of it and want to do everything once vacation is over.
Not everyone understands this concept. My mother (from whom I think I get my workaholic tendencies) finds this astounding. Every time I go on vacation at her house, her response is, “You’re doing nothing?” followed by a list of things that she might do for fun if she were on vacation.
In the end, we visit a lot, which I think is a lot easier to do once we don’t have to change locations to an artificial environment, like a coffee shop or restaurant or movie theater or shopping center.
My siblings haven’t been around so much; they’re working and they have lots of after-work activities to keep them busy. It’s the same reasons why they never call me. Life just gets like that.
My only trouble is that I may become tired of this vacation ahead of schedule…