My husband has been in Las Vegas all week with a buddy of his. We had airline tickets left over from our cancelled honeymoon that had to be used by Aug. 23. Unfortunately I couldn't get time off during the week and all of our weekends are booked with cabin-time with friends. So he and his friend, who is a teacher and has the summer off, headed to Sin City for a man-cation. They were especially thrilled to learn that a Star Trek convention started mid-way through their week (of course, they went). And they did the usual things like Hoover Dam, gambling and people-watching and the surprising (for guys, anyway) like Cirque du Soleil.
For me, it's been kind of nice to have the house (and the remote, and the bed) to myself for a little while. My own little vacation. My husband asked when he called last night if I missed him. Of course I missed him! But it was also nice to be without him. He said he wanted someone who "needed" him. And I replied: "It's better to have someone who wants you than someone who needs you." He thought for a minute and agreed that it would be better that way.
As for our cancelled honeymoon, you're probably wondering how we're going to make up for that? We've got it planned. An anniversay trip to Ludlow's Island Lodge (in Cook, Minn.) in mid-October and a beach vacation in January (don't know where yet). At Ludlow's, we're going to have our own 2-bedroom cabin and boat, plus massages and dinner served to us one night. The other nights we'll either make do in our kitchen or go out to eat. It should be peaceful and relaxing. And the beach vacation will be my treat for surviving the second half of 2007 with next-to-nothing for vacation. Can't wait.
In the meantime, we're off to the cabin tonight after I pick my husband up from the airport. These cabin weekends are almost like vacations too.
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