my summer vacation
Apr. 20th, 2005 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaThe nanny has asked for June 6-10 off, so that's the date of our summer vacation. So we will not be free for the traditional August week on Martha's Vineyard with my mother. We're having trouble deciding what to do.
Option 1: Fly to Boston, and mix staying with family and visiting friends with some car camping, possibly up the Maine coast, or if things work out spend some time in the house in Woods Hole (still not for sale, still awaiting septic system estimate; right now my mother is thinking of buying it.)
Advantages: see family, see friends, get some time at the beach, possibly see childhood Maine haunts. mr flea likes the idea of the last.
Disadvantages: Cost of airfare ($425), need to borrow car from family (probably not a big deal), need to plan if we decide to camp.
Option 2: Car camp in the mountains, maybe go up into WV. Possibility of visiting WV friends, meeting up with Ohio friends who like to camp.
Advantages: cheap, see friends, see mountains.
Disadvantages: no beach, even more intensive need to plan.
Advice? Am I insane to consider extended camping with a 1 year old? My plan is to buy a new cheap big tent from Target that's big enough to hold us and the pack-n-play. My parents certainly camped with small children.
Part of me thinks that Casper is such a horrible sleeper in new surroundings that going anywhere will be more trouble than its worth in term of my exhaustion. But I hate the idea of being here all summer with no break. There's not that much to do in the vicinity and it's so hot, even by June.
Option 1: Fly to Boston, and mix staying with family and visiting friends with some car camping, possibly up the Maine coast, or if things work out spend some time in the house in Woods Hole (still not for sale, still awaiting septic system estimate; right now my mother is thinking of buying it.)
Advantages: see family, see friends, get some time at the beach, possibly see childhood Maine haunts. mr flea likes the idea of the last.
Disadvantages: Cost of airfare ($425), need to borrow car from family (probably not a big deal), need to plan if we decide to camp.
Option 2: Car camp in the mountains, maybe go up into WV. Possibility of visiting WV friends, meeting up with Ohio friends who like to camp.
Advantages: cheap, see friends, see mountains.
Disadvantages: no beach, even more intensive need to plan.
Advice? Am I insane to consider extended camping with a 1 year old? My plan is to buy a new cheap big tent from Target that's big enough to hold us and the pack-n-play. My parents certainly camped with small children.
Part of me thinks that Casper is such a horrible sleeper in new surroundings that going anywhere will be more trouble than its worth in term of my exhaustion. But I hate the idea of being here all summer with no break. There's not that much to do in the vicinity and it's so hot, even by June.