Vacationforce

I'm finally going on a vacation actually away from my home province in quite a long time.

I'll be heading back home (Newfoundland) for two weeks in august, then my wife and I are heading to seattle for 5 days to go to Pax Prime. So I hope that will be an enjoyable experience.

I'll pretty much have three weeks guaranteed off over the christmas holidays, so I'll heading back to my home province, but I want to do zero travelling over the holidays. I just want to relax and spend a quiet christmas in my own house.

Last christmas, I spent Christmas over at my parents which was nice for a few days because its been a long time since my parents have had all their kids home for christmas at the same time. Its been almost ten years, so it was good to get that out of the way because I know how much it meant to my mom. The year before we spent christmas with my wife's grandparents, so this Christmas will be no travelling whatsoever.

I do want to go somewhere possibly in late october/early november because my work will dramatically slow down during that time. There is literally no hope of me even going anywhere at all this summer except the 2 1/2 weeks off I have in august which is devoted to going back to newfoundland and seattle. My permanent summer schedule with regards to work because of this incredibly busy highway project is a 6 and 1 schedule (6 days working with one day off).

So if anybody has got any ideas of going anywhere in late october/early november let me know. It will be easy for me to get as much as 4 days off if I work 24 days straight. I would love to go home, but to travel all the way out to east coast for 2 days (I'd lose two days travelling) would be an incredible waste of time and money. I promised skills I'd give him a visit in Winnipeg but his work schedule is beyond hellish. At least one good perk if I travel, is I can stay at any starwood (sheraton) hotel property real cheap because of my wife's discount.

Jam it back in, in the dark.