The beach vacation that wasn't
Sometimes things just don’t work out like you think they will. This year, our family vacation fell into that category.
Life with three girls is never boring. As they advance in age, so does the complexity of their lives. One just returned from 6 week summer semester in Europe studying “food sociology”, another just got back from a snorkeling trip in the Carribean and the littlest one just finished 4 weeks of acting and one week singing and dancing on Broadway.
For us to have a family vacation where everyone is in the same place for a week is like threading a very fine needle. This was the only week that all 3 girls would be here. Two leave the following week to go back to college.
We had high hopes as 3 out of 5 of us packed up the car and travelled to Montauk, on the end of Long Island. The older two were set to meet us there 2 days later.
Yippee, a week at the beach with the whole Rubin Rodeo. Sounds great, right?
Upon arriving, we soon discovered that the house we rented via Craig’s List was unlivable. The downstairs was boarded up. You could only get into the house via a steep rickety staircase to the upstairs deck. After much searching to find another place to stay, even for the night, we were out of luck. We headed back home.
And then the rains started. A record 8 inches of rain in a few short hours at JFK airport in NY delayed daughter #2’s flight.
We found a way to grab one day at Robert Moses State Park. Before the pre-college packing chaos kicked in.
Oh well, maybe next year.
