Countdown to Vacation

After my last week from hell I'm hoping to lay low this week. I'm going on vacation next week until after Labor Day. I haven't taken any time off since April and I'm so looking forward to this. The fiance and I are going camping with friends in Maine and then a trip to the in-laws for Labor Day weekend.

I haven't been camping since I was in high school. I was actually a camp counselor at an overnight camp in the San Juan Islands outside of Washington (I grew up in Seattle). I went to the same camp every year for about a month every summer when I was growing up. Being outside, near the ocean and enjoying nature has always been something that has calmed me. I really hope that this camping trip will have the same effect on me.

I'm a little worried about the fiance though, his idea of camping is staying at a two star hotel without room service (I'm exaggerating a bit). He has never been camping in his life, aside from the time when he went to Woodstock, but that's not really the type of camping I'm talking about. It's pretty funny because he has no idea what to expect. We went grocery shopping for the trip this weekend just to pick up a few things and he was so funny about it. I bought some hot dogs and he was very intrigued about how we were going to cook them. He got really excited when I told him that he could cook them on a stick if he really wanted to. The place we're camping at is pretty nice and I know that they have grill there, but I'll let him have his fun. This should be an interesting trip.