Hello everyone!
Want to join a cruise to the balmy Caribbean Islands? Would you like to travel to Australia’s outback? How about staying in a ski lodge? Or maybe…just maybe fly off on the “second star to the right and straight on till morning” and meet Peter Pan in Neverland?!
Our new family tradition is to plan a vacation adventure right in our own home shortly after the holidays. It is a great way to beat the winter blues, have fun, learn skills/do research, and stay active all on a dime!
There are a million different options and methods of going about it. Part of the fun is in choosing a theme, time-period, and place, and then letting your imagination do the rest. Last year, we studied cruise ships of the 1950s, and acted as if we were on one, headed for the Caribbean Islands and South-Eastern seas. We turned our house into the ship; putting up pictures of portholes, ships, and the ocean on our walls and doors. Our family made normal jobs become ship-work (snow shoveling became swabbing the decks, etc.). We swam at the community center, imagining we were in the balmy ocean off the Virgin Islands; we relaxed in a local conservatory garden, thinking it was the tropical terrain of Bermuda; we slept by lantern-light, pretending it was our cabin’s light. For more of an authentic touch, we wore bright colors throughout our 3-week cruise, and watched sea-faring films like “The Swiss Family Robinson” and “Muppet Treasure Island”!
This year, we are planning an entirely different ocean staycation. An olde voyage…a ship with full rigging and sails…a mystery awaiting to be uncovered…
