Ups and downs

What's in a holiday? Just returned home from seven days off. Six of which have been spent driving and camping with my family. We had good times and bad over the course of the time,  kodak moments and moments which should never be perserved on film.

We caught up with family during the trip but spent most time visiting with new friends and just on our own as a family. 

This is as important as anything else to do on holiday, we need time together doing stuff like walking up mountains and scooting down beach pathways to reconnect in places other than home. I believe that family holidays are one of the best things that I treasure from my childhood. There is just something about the pleasure of experiencing new and sometimes adventurous times together in contexts outside the everyday grind that bind us together with bonds which can not be broken. I now appreciate the cost that my parents payed to provide these quality times for our family! Which is not insignificant.

There have been the usual negatives of vomiting, navigational marital stress, and pest animals, rain and kids that won't stop nagging, winning ( fill in you own annoying utterance type here) but we soldiered on through these and other obsticules to break though to the other side of holiday joy.