Oh, boy are you right Rhonda.  I want warm weather to come so bad I can
hardly stand it.  I don't usually go on any special vacation but this year I
will be going to the Florida Gimpfest.  I can't wait.  I already have my
tickets.

My uncle lives in Bradenton so they are going to pick me up at the airport
and I am going to spend Friday evening and night with them for a visit.  I
haven't seen them in over six years.

Saturday I will spend with the gang and hope to meet some of the ASA group.
I've been posting for six years now and haven't met anyone.  I am so
excited.  I don't know exactly what we will be doing but I know it will be
fun.

I'm even looking forward to flying.  Not looking forward to the boarding etc
though.
I am dreaming of the warm weather that Florida will be having the last
weekend in April.  It has to be warm doesn't it?  LOL

debbie m.
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The Scandanavian countries, to try to research some genealogy
on dad's side.

actually, i'm not fond of hot weather.  definitely not a summer person;
prefer the other 3 seasons.  however, i've always wanted to see where my mom
and eldest sister was born.  so, i'd want to go to puerto rico and bum
around for awhile, like maybe a month or so.  i know my son would love to go
there too and there are lots of relatives to visit.

but then, there is ireland.  that place has always tugged at me and called
to me. i want to walk on every beach there, and collect interesting stones;
and live in a thatched cottage, somewhere near the shoreline, for a summer.
i want to wander through ancient ruins and graveyards.  want to just sit and
listen to local people, anywhere there and anytime, want to hear the humor
and laughter.  want to dip my toes in a noisy brook and slog through a
bogland area.  want to just sit on a stone fence and watch a sunset and
maybe a sunrise.  want to sit in a pub and listen to celtic music.  just
want to feel, experience and sense the old and new of ireland.

kate

Nova Scotia.  I've always wanted to spend a summer there, and my closest
friend moved there two years ago.  So far I haven't made it, but still
trying :-)

Janet N.

I'd like to go to (in the United States) New Hampshire and Virginia to
bridge the gap between my more immediate ancestors and the more distant
ones. I'd also like to go to "Beautiful Lake Como" for the same reason.

great-grandmother was actually born in Switzerland near the Italian
border but Italy gained a bit of land which included my
great-grandmother's birthplace. Her birthplace is now located in Lombardy.

In old St. Joseph, Missouri, city directories you would have sworn my
grandparents moved all over in just a few years. They didn't move an
inch. The city and the post office were making decision on what their
address should be. Finally settled on something that made no sense (of
course!).

Nell

Cruise through Alaskan straights for whale watching.  Then fly over to
Massachusetts, same reason.

DeeTee
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well, my first thought is to get down to north Florida to see our families
again!  But if you think of that as "visiting" rather than "vacation", then I
want to go back to Europe some more.  Kinda a toss-up between returning to
Italy and taking the Spain-France-Belgium trip we've talked about for years.  
(Spain 'cause neither of us has been there, France because I haven't been
there and Belgium 'cause we haven't been and my ancestors are from there -
statues carved by my great-great-grandfather still stand in downtown
Antwerp.)

My plans for summer, subject to health interference have me as excited as I
dare to be in advance.

April 4th I have my next evaluation for a cochlear implant.  So I'm really
waiting to see how that goes to let myself feel too excited about anything
else.

Then, my younger daughter is getting married on September 17th.  She and her
fianc? are doing most of the wedding planning themselves, with a few cash
infusions from us.  The biggest thing we've done so far is to go to select
her wedding dress and then out to a nice lunch at the cheesecake factory.
Now I have to find a "mother of the bride" dress and shoes.

The weekend after that Charlie and I are going to Las Vegas for his first
ever military reunion.  Guys he served with back in the fifties.

Finally, as you know my once large family has suffered some really heavy
attrition in the past couple of years.  My dad's sole surviving sibling (out
of eight) will celebrate her 80th birthday on August 14th.  Now I may have
just the one Aunt.  And she never had any kids.  But she has tons of nieces
and nephews - I still have a slew of cousins.

So one cousin decided it would be nice to take Auntie Mae on a cruise to
Alaska for her 80th birthday.  She just went ahead and booked Mae and her
own family on the Carnival Cruise and then emailed the rest of us to see if
anybody else wanted to go.  Charlie and I and my sister Pat and her husband
Bill have been talking about maybe taking a cruise like this for a while.
And we decided, what the heck.  Its as good a time as any.  So the four of
us signed up too.  Last I heard there will be about forty of us.  We will
top off the cruise with a train trip up to Mt McKinley.  Or Denali as I
prefer to call it.

Current project is to try to get the house looking decent before wedding
guests descend.

Jo