Last fall, Tom in his usual manner started talking about going on vacation… more like, “I want to go somewhere exotic this year! I really need a vacation, not just a few days at the lake where the kids can show up and their fun starts and our peace ends.”
“Well dear, where do you propose we go?”
“Ummmm, we could go to Hawaii or how about South America?”
“Wow, love the way you think dear but that is not very practical…”
And thus starts the usual debate of Tom suggesting far away places and I countering with reasons why not. So to stop the action, I threw in the clincher… “Listen, how about you deciding where you want to go and I will go along on these conditions: figure out how to get there, how long to stay, where to stay, etc. -- Oh yeah, also pay for it up front and no credit cards!”
Well low and behold, he did it! After much planning, emails, working extra engagements and saving for the past ten months Tom put together a plan for us to go to England for the month of August--without kids!
Besides the fact that we love visiting the “Mother country”, our church denomination -- Unity -- has a center in Maidenhead. So, Tom negotiated a deal. He will teach a series of classes/workshops in exchange for letting us stay at their flat for the month. For the most part, the workshops are on the weekends, so we'll have 3-4 days in between to play tourist.
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