Wouldn’t Trade the Memories…

Tonight we attended a dinner and a charity auction in which they were auctioning off a trip to Hawaii.  As we sat and talked with our friends at the table I was reminded of the last time my family took a trip to Hawaii together and the series of crazy mishaps we went through – I had forgotten all about the memories of that trip until it was brought up tonight and as soon as they reminded me of the trip I started laughing out loud – oh my goodness how wonderful those memories are now, looking back.  At the time these mishaps took place they were anything but funny, but its amazing how in retrospect they are freaking hilarious!   Seriously – HILARIOUS!  See for yourself:

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

Last week I had some time off to spend with my family. We had a crazy experience on our trip where anything that could go wrong went wrong. I will try to share the cliff notes version with all of you: It started when we were loading the car to head to the airport. My husband weighted the bags to find that my son`s bag weighed 75 pounds!?! We opened his suitcase only to discover that he had packed the entire xbox gaming system with all the controllers and games in his suitcase! For the love! We almost missed our flight because we had to unpack and repack his bags, all the time listening to him say how close he was to making it on vacation with his xbox…

At the airport my daughter walked into a glass door and her brother who was walking obliviously behind her just about followed her into it. Luckily she wasn’t injured. When we picked up the rental car they had the wrong car reserved. When we got to the hotel they had our room reservation wrong. My husband then went to park the car in the hotel garage while we waited in the lobby and he ended up lost for over 30 minutes wandering around the parking garage looking for a hotel entrance door, so me and the kids ended up having to haul all of the bags ourselves to the room. Up in our room the TV and the fan wouldn’t work. When we went to leave the hotel parking garage, the key in the rental car broke off and the car alarm went off every time we opened the car door. Then my husband ended up locked inside the car and couldn’t open the door or the alarm would go off again – I was standing outside the car and tried to call his cell so we could communicate with him inside the car only to discover that he had forgotten his cell phone up in the hotel room. We finally got him out of the car and went to the nearby mall to get dinner only to get lost in the mall while trying to find the restaurant. When we finally found it and ordered our food, my husband looked down at his half eaten plate only to find that there was another person’s half eaten taco mixed in with his food (sick). When we returned back to the hotel my husband realized he had left his credit card back at the restaurant….and all of this happened in the first 24 hours of the trip! As the week went on my husband lost his wedding ring (for the third time now…) while swimming in the lagoon. And the last day of the trip as we went to return the rental car, my husband realized that he had lost the rental car keys somewhere around the resort property so we spent hours searching for lost car keys. Then my son ran into a fire hydrant on accident right in front of a tour bus (again, not paying attention to where he was walking) and hurt his knee. And finally we missed the firework show our last night by literally twenty seconds. Yes, our vacation was a comedy of errors and mishaps, but as my daughter posted on her facebook page “I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR A THING! :)”

The fact is that despite everything that went wrong on our trip we had a great time as a family just getting through the mishaps and laughing about them together. We were reminded of the quote I have shared before which states “Life isn’t about avoiding the storms; It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Well dance in the rain we did last week and I am certain we will remember our trip for a very long time to come. And it is good to be home again 🙂

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I am really grateful that I had a copy of my blog from that trip to remind me of the details on just how crazy that trip was.  Without this past blog I can guarantee that I would never have rememebered all the little details of this trip, which was a great example of why all of you should take the time to write down the fun experiences that happen in your life because as much as you tell yourself that you will never forget life’s experiences, the fact is that you will.  And having a copy of them to go back and read later on is a ton of fun and its always good for getting a great laugh.    So write your memories down as they happen – then you can pull them out years later and be mad at your husband all over again :)….what could be more fun that that?!?!?

~Amy

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