Your favorite childhood holiday?
Alyals started this under the "TTG Bday" thread and I think it's a great idea for a thread.So...what is your favorite childhood 'holiday' memory? Mine might be the Jersey shore(see the previous...
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My family didn't travel anywhere when I was a child but I just lived for the summer. I hated school and that last day was just like the prison gate had clanged open. I also felt very lucky that I...
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My favorite would have to be mother taking my sister and I to Hawaii shortly after our father passed away when we were ages 6 and 3. We spent much of that summer traveling in the US, but Oahu was like...
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Sigh...I think I would like to live in a place where I had a frangipani tree off my balcony.
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I was an Army brat; so therefore I got to live in or travel to all the lower 48 US states and Hawaii when I was growing up...Japan, Canada, Mexico, and parts of the Caribbean, too,I always liked beach...
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I so agree with you Goddess~Years ago we were on a small island off the coast of Maine. Folks (with the few cars on the island) would drive by and wave as we were walking. We passed prams covered with...
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Kavey, my parents were the exact opposite of yours. I think we took one family vacation that I can recall during my entire childhood and teen years. (And that was not a very exciting one.) But I think...
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goddesstogo, I really enjoyed reading your post.Me too! We actually never went anywhere. But my Chicago block had 44 houses and we had the most kids on one block in Chicago (257 the year I have the...
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Quote:I often feel sorry for children now. Their time is so planned and their parents are so cautious. There doesn't seem to be much opportunity for them to just relax and play.I agree with you,...
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Quote:Yoohoo - Maureen -- this is called with 5 syllablesJJ, I can hear that so clearly! It reminds me of another nice summer memory -- playing ball on the street after supper till it got too dark to...
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I'd love to have my senses assaulted in India Kavey!
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We didn't have much money for travel when I was a kid, but I fondly remember a week we spent on the California coast. We rented an apartment in Cayucos, across the street from the beach, around July...
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I lived in an unconventional family but each summer we would take a two week driving trip somewhere in California. I thought it was something everyone did for exactly two weeks. I remember asking...
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I don't remember our family taking any summer vacations because my dad worked 7 days a week. I do remember when I was in 7th grade my best friends parents let me go with them on a trip to Florida. It...
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Site to See, My Dad too- and from Sept. to after Christmas he worked TWO full time jobs. He was the guy at Marshall Fields who printed/painted the names on all the personalized toys before Xmas. He...
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JJ -- someone once told me "there are two kinds of jobs -- the kind where you shower before you go to work and the kind where you shower when you come home". My dad, like yours, had the latter kind. I...
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JJ5PlusIt seemed like we didn't even have a dad when we were growing up. The first thing he did after getting home was to take a shower to wash off the factory smell. I know he worked hard, 8 to 12...
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Yes, but he lives in you and now you travel for him, Site to See. We knew how to work and we knew how to play.And speaking of PLAY, as in PLAY BALL. I can't wait either, goddesstogo. I actually wore...
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My folks had a house at the lake and that pretty much determined our vacations...this really never felt like vacation, as we were there every weekend anyway! However, I do have very fond memories of...
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Oh my. My parents moved to the United States about 3 or 4 years prior to my birth. The summer I was 8, my 18 year-old brother and I went with them to Maine. Dad drove through part of Canada, around...
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