Unusual Weather

We have had an unusual month of weather for June. We have had a lot of rain this month and a lot of windy and cloudy days. I read in the paper we were having a El Nina and that to expect this kind of weather for the whole summer. I hope they are wrong about this because it could make for a really bad winter. We had an El Nina about 5 years ago and the winter was really bad with getting snow and than rain and well than really bad flooding. I like the summer weather so I really hope it isn't going to be like this for the whole summer. This brings me to what I really wanted to write about and it is taken from another post. Vacation and road trips.

I remember growing up and every summer my parents would take me on vacation. It was usually to Disneyland. Sometimes we would go camping as well. I have a lot of great memories about the time we spent on vacation. We went on a lot of road trips as well. Or maybe they were just drives, because every Sunday after Church I remember taking a drive somewhere. My favorite place to go was a drive to the ocean. It was a different time.

We have gone on a few vacations with our children, but it is so expensive these days that it is really hard to go any where every year. I regret that we can't take our children on vacation because it is so nice to get away and go somewhere maybe you never been before. A few years ago we had the best time when we went camping along the Oregon Coast. We spent two weeks going place to place. It was great! We went two years in a row. We have taken them to Disneyland a few times and Six Flaggs. Last year we wanted to do something so we went up to Lake Tahoe which isn't far from home, but at the same time at least we went somewhere. The other thing that is really hard is my husband and I work different shifts and have different days off which makes it hard to plan anything. We try to take time off from work at the same time, but this summer we are taking different times off. I still have time with my two younger ones that hopefully in the next couple years we can take a family vacation and go somewhere. I would love to take them to Disneyland and I would love to go to Las Vegas. Hawaii would be nice, but not sure we can make it there. I would also love to take another trip to the Oregon Coast.

It is really sad that times have changed so much that everything cost so much that you can't take a family vacation. Now days you have to have two incomes to make ends meat not like when I was growing up and mom was a stay at home mom and you could make it on one pay check. They had a brand new house and two brand new cars. Times were different that is for sure!