It's a FAKE-cation!!! This is an idea I got from Linsey and Char from our Capital Hill Ward. You pretend you are on vacation but you just stay home and do fun random things. Our fake-cation consisted of quilt fort building, stream swimming, a trip to Saver's thrift store and roasting marshmallows over a candle camp fire. (This was something I perfected in college with David Leichty.) It has been a good way to keep kids busy and distracted during extreme transition and stress. One house is packed up in a truck and the other house has our renters finishing their move out.
Early this week I found out my good friend Andrea's dad passed away. He was famous for telling his art students to be "walking eyes" and was generally the happiest Greek in Provo. The next day the kids and I jumped on a pre-dawn flight back to Utah to attend the funeral while Marco packed up the house with the help of many, many helping hands. Luckily, we get to spend the week at our favorite fake-cation timeshare -- Granny P and Papa Rock's house while they are in Colorado. (It's rough living.)
What would be your Dream Fake-cation?
7 comments:
My Fake-cation would involve drinking mango smoothies, dancing to Latin music in the Kitchen, eating beans and rice.
I also love being a tourist in my own city-going to historic monuments, walking through touristy gift shops, and just watching people.
Most importantly, I would not have to clean my kitchen or bathrooms.
:)
-Alisa
We could put our kids in the back a van, with a tv that didn't really work for 8 hours. And we could just talk as they beat one another. That actually would be a perfect fake-cation. I am quitting my job today, and i do have the perfect blue, so just wait for me.
you guys would move back in across the street and we would eat yummy food and homemade ice cream. play in the garden. listen to fun davis music. and having a dance on my roof.
would you please come back? please??????
Alisa -- My favorite parts of Houston are the Rice Village area and Montrose. Great thrifting.
Whitney -- Quiting a job? I am so happy for you. Does this mean we can spend all our time stalking Lindsey Lohan from my bathroom window? Unfortunately, putting our kids back in the car would mean Xan would barf all over Ari and Nico. We are on a sick-cation today.
Kimberly - Can we live on your roof? Marco is somewhere in West Virginia with most of our worldly possessions right now. I will just give him a ring and have him turn around.
fun question. i've been dying to get a hotel in san fransisco so i don't have to worry about cleaning then shopping and eating eastern food all day. i ate dim sum with two guys from london and new zealand yesterday and they have traveled everywhere in the world and said SF is top three favorite (especially loved the shopping). it made me want to travel there, too. i think we'll go tonight.
Wow - I never thought of fake-cationing with a couple of guys from overseas. You might be onto something! (Kidding, Marco.)
My fake-cation would involve a laptop and a pool and a watermelon and some movies and limited body hair and a swimsuit and a glass of ice-water and trees and mountains and a really good book. I think I am too hot right now to think of any other fake-cation. Ask me again in the morning.
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