Lost Soul

The Sour-Swede family is on vacation. We take an annual two-week camping trip to some wonderful places and this trip is always the highlight of my year. This year, however, we didn't get to choose our destination. We anchored the first part of our trip onto my nephew's wedding in Florida. Who goes to Florida in August? By choice??

We started out going to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. I have never outgrown my childhood fascination with horses. In fact, when I turned forty and did an evaluation of my life, I decided that I've always wanted to own a horse. I wanted to make that dream a reality. I never did. Who knows? Maybe someday I will. For now, I must settle for taking trips to horse parks. This one did not disappoint. It was really interesting! I could've stayed longer but we had the next leg of our trip to get to in South Carolina.

Unfortunately, South Carolina did disappoint. We stayed in a state park right on the Atlantic Ocean. It was very beautiful and lush but along with all the tropical foliage came tropical-sized bugs. There were L-A-R-G-E spiders everywhere and mosquitos by the swarms...all waiting to attack the nearest blood supply, our exposed fleah. The boys look like they have rashes, they are so bitten up. Trying not to be negative, I just sort of went along for the ride, swiping this way and that way. By the third morning, The Swede had had enough. I awoke to him asking if I would mind if we packed up early and moved on to Florida. Um, letmethinkNO!

So here we are near Tampa in the sweltering heat (not unlike what they're having back home.) We love were we are and are enjoying it down here. Yesterday we went to Busch Gardens (fun!) and today we went to Adventure Island water park. I am not a big fan of water parks. I hate crowds. I woke up with a bad headache but was trying to make the best of it anyway. About an hour into it, I realized I was bringing everyone else down when The Swede told me I was bringing everyone else down and suggested I go home until the park closed at 6pm. So here I am, alone for the afternoon. I don't know what to do with myself. I am missing my boys terribly - all three of them. (Not so much as to go back to the water park, but very, very badly.) I've cleaned the RV, done laundry, read all my blogs, but I'm lost. I really feel incomplete without them around me. As I'm sure all other parent's feel, I long for time alone. Now that I have it, I don't know what to do with myself. I'm just a lost soul without my family.

Only two more hours to go.

(Just as I wrote that, the phone rang. They're ready to come home. Yippee!)