My Favorite Vacation Memory July 21, 2010

Monday night our family had dinner together.  Knowing I would be writing this post, I asked our three grown children, “What is your favorite vacation memory?”

This made for some fun conversation as we reminisced their childhood.  I was surprised at their favorites, and had even forgotten some of the moments they recalled.

• Was it the time we went mountain biking in the Rockies?  No!

• Was it the week long expedition to Washington D.C. where we visited Ford’s Theater, The Holocaust Museum, The Smithsonian or the National Archives?  No!

• Was it the time in the Florida Keys where we took them snorkeling?  No!

• How about the time we spent a week on Clearwater Beach harvesting sand dollars and gathering sea shells so we could identify them in our Florida Sea Shell book? No, it wasn’t that either.

Their favorite vacation memory came from the times we went fishing!  Fishing of all things!  And to think I didn’t have any idea how much they enjoyed it.  We have fished together many times, on party boats, from a dock of a home in Naples, on a private fishing charter and in a trout-fed pond in North Carolina.  But we never have purposed to go on a “fishing trip”.  I guess it was always something to do among the other activities we had planned.

I think we have an idea what to do on our next family vacation – anyone want to “fish” for a guess?

So what’s YOUR favorite vacation memory?