Background: I was born and raised in Wisconsin, but when I was 25 I moved to Texas to be with my now-husband. I've been back to Wisconsin once since then, a few months after I moved, but that was almost 3 years ago. /bg
My friends and family have been bugging me for a year about when am I going to come back to visit. I am not really attached to Wisconsin at all. I do have family up there (my parents and both of my brothers) but I am in no hurry to see any of them. I talk to them on the phone pretty regularly and that's enough for me. However I do want to go back sometime this year, for a short visit. My husband and I had talked about going for a long weekend sometime this summer, possibly Fri-Mon; that would be long enough for us. Then we talked about going longer and driving up to Michigan to stay at an off-season ski resort for a few days. We have stayed at one in the past and it's very nice, and affordable when rented in the summer. It would be like a vacation during our vacation, which honestly makes me much more eager to go in the first place, as I'm not looking forward to seeing my family all that much. Plus, we have not had a proper vacation together since before we got married; we take time off from work, but we haven't gone anywhere on an honest vacation just for the two of us. Either we've gone out of town for some event that I'm vending at, or to see friends or family, which is all well and good, but a vacation for just the two of us is something we haven't done in a while and would be nice.
Well, I told this to my mom since we have started making preliminary plans (talking about dates and looking at rental units at the ski resort, etc.) Then she got the brilliant idea to rent the biggest condo on the ski resort, which my family did once before about 15 years ago and had a family reunion there, and have another family reunion, inviting my brothers and cousins and their families to stay for 3 nights.
This...this is not really what I want, at all. I think it would be fun for about 3 hours, and then my husband and I would get annoyed with my family (and they would all get annoyed with each other, since that's what they do) and it would just not be a fun vacation at all. We wanted to go to the resort to get AWAY from my family for a few days and have some time to ourselves, not to all be under one roof with 15 other people constantly.
I'm not really looking for advice, as we'll probably tell her at some point that this was not what we had in mind and that we're not interested in participating, although it will probably devastate her to hear that. I mostly just wanted to vent. She sorta stole my idea, as she never would have thought to rent the big condo if I hadn't mentioned my husband's and my interest in going to the ski resort in the first place.
My friends and family have been bugging me for a year about when am I going to come back to visit. I am not really attached to Wisconsin at all. I do have family up there (my parents and both of my brothers) but I am in no hurry to see any of them. I talk to them on the phone pretty regularly and that's enough for me. However I do want to go back sometime this year, for a short visit. My husband and I had talked about going for a long weekend sometime this summer, possibly Fri-Mon; that would be long enough for us. Then we talked about going longer and driving up to Michigan to stay at an off-season ski resort for a few days. We have stayed at one in the past and it's very nice, and affordable when rented in the summer. It would be like a vacation during our vacation, which honestly makes me much more eager to go in the first place, as I'm not looking forward to seeing my family all that much. Plus, we have not had a proper vacation together since before we got married; we take time off from work, but we haven't gone anywhere on an honest vacation just for the two of us. Either we've gone out of town for some event that I'm vending at, or to see friends or family, which is all well and good, but a vacation for just the two of us is something we haven't done in a while and would be nice.
Well, I told this to my mom since we have started making preliminary plans (talking about dates and looking at rental units at the ski resort, etc.) Then she got the brilliant idea to rent the biggest condo on the ski resort, which my family did once before about 15 years ago and had a family reunion there, and have another family reunion, inviting my brothers and cousins and their families to stay for 3 nights.
This...this is not really what I want, at all. I think it would be fun for about 3 hours, and then my husband and I would get annoyed with my family (and they would all get annoyed with each other, since that's what they do) and it would just not be a fun vacation at all. We wanted to go to the resort to get AWAY from my family for a few days and have some time to ourselves, not to all be under one roof with 15 other people constantly.
I'm not really looking for advice, as we'll probably tell her at some point that this was not what we had in mind and that we're not interested in participating, although it will probably devastate her to hear that. I mostly just wanted to vent. She sorta stole my idea, as she never would have thought to rent the big condo if I hadn't mentioned my husband's and my interest in going to the ski resort in the first place.
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