Tomorrow, we go home.
Tomorrow, we won't be on vacation any more.
Tomorrow is a very, very sad day.
Tomorrow, I will be drowning my sorrows in ginger ale, my aeronautical beverage of choice.
What vacation were you saddest to leave behind?
And why does ginger ale taste so much better on planes?
p.s. Happy Bertha Day to this girl!
Tomorrow, we won't be on vacation any more.
Tomorrow is a very, very sad day.
Tomorrow, I will be drowning my sorrows in ginger ale, my aeronautical beverage of choice.
What vacation were you saddest to leave behind?
And why does ginger ale taste so much better on planes?
p.s. Happy Bertha Day to this girl!
18 comments:
Boo to vacation ending :( And I totally agree with you that ginger ale tastes better on planes!! Why is that?!?!
It sucks to leave every vacation... I can't just pick one! lol
Happy Birthday Ginny!! :)
i used to always get ginger ale, too, as a sort of homage to my dad, ginger ale connoisseur that he is. but then i married a texan and realized that dr. pepper is actually yummy and has caffeine, which i usually need on a plane because i usually have at least one child on my lap. btw, did you know they have tops for those cute little plastic cups on planes? you will know that soon when miss dub starts ordering her own little oj from the flight attendants.
as for the vacay ending, i hear ya. sad day indeed. when my parents told us that we would be going to hawaii with all of our family, i was immediately sad that at one point, we'd have to get on a plane and go home.
i hope you had fun! any luck getting mrs gee to blog? :)
mr. r is a ginger ale junkie on planes also. it's kind of like how i can only drink sprite with movie theater popcorn.
i have to say that i thought i was alone on the ginger ale thing. it is a rare occasion when i don't order ginger ale on a plane, but i didn't realize other people had the same affinity. i love it! i crave it the second i sit down. weird.
as for saddest vacation to leave... definitely the honeymoon. 9 days in maui and 5 days in canada... i can depress myself just thinking about how much i want to go back to the grande wailea in maui. europe was a close second, but i was equally as excited to be back in the US as i was sad to leave such an amazing place.
sorry your vacation is over. :(
Wow, I had no idea we all ordered ginger ale on planes. I always have too. But at home I would never think to buy it. Huh.
At least we used to get to take the family home with us at the end of vacation. Now we have to leave without them and go back to an empty house, particularly this year when the young couple has just departed for Spain. Furthermore, the children have the audacity to take our grandkids with them. Very, very sad.
Can't believe it took marrying a Texan to convert leslie to DP. I thought she was smarter than that--referring to late conversion to DP not marrying a Texan. I personally know that DP was plentiful and widely loved in the OC a half century ago. She missed so much.
My mom was a ginger ale fan, so it makes me nostalgic. I think it tastes good on planes because it is only good for a few sips, not in a Big Gulp, and that's all you get on a plane. And it's best when you're really thirsty, and you're dehydrated on a plane.
Happy BD to that girl. Contributed a little to that event myself. Probably very little as a new dad with his firstborn.
Hope you all had a fun time! And Happy Birthday to Gin. And I'm with Leslie... it's DP on every plane ride for me. So funny that so many of you love ginger ale. I'd never think to order it!
I'm usually ready to get back home after a vacation (no matter HOW GOOD it is!) I'm a creature of habit and enjoy my routines. However, if I had to pick one, I'd say my 10th anniversary trip with my husband to NYC. That was exquisite!
This is cracking me up because my family always ordered ginger ale on planes as well -- we never buy it at home. I wish I could get Dr. Pepper on a plane -- they usually don't have it. They always have Cranberry Juice though, which I enjoy. Oh, and when travelling with kids, they'll put a beverage right into an empty sippy cup, if you ask them. Just don't put anything carbonated in there -- have you ever tried that?
I am in awe of the "Ginger Ale Phenomenon." Everyone orders it. I can't believe it! I can't drink the stuff normally so why would I try it on an airplane when I could get a drink I know I like?
Robby never drinks Ginger Ale unless on an airplane. He never buys it or thinks about it unless on an airplane.
It's mind-boggling!
ginger ale makes me think of throw up. it's what we always had as kids when we had a stomach bug. and let me tell you, i do not want to be thinking about throwing up while on a plane, so i go with dr pepper every time.
sorry you have to go home. at least that means you will be reuinited with mr. dub. i am sure he has missed you girls terribly.
and when are you coming to arizona again? shouldn't it be soon? please say yes.
oh p. daddy, you're so right. i had no idea what i was missing all that time. i thought dp was "totally disgusting" until i started taking sips of my husband's at mexican restaurants, then i realized that it is quite perky indeed. i've been hooked ever since. it's quite the texan beverage (born in waco tx in 1885--gotta love wikipedia), second only to good ole southern iced tea. which is everywhere.
Since we are moving to Texas dh will be delighted to know he can probably get his usual vat of DP anywhere we go.
As for the vacation, I followed dh over to Hawaii for his business trip. I had the flight alone. Plus he worked every morning, I had alone time, no kids even and then we explored the island together in the afternoon. Leaving it definitely was the worst. We took a red-eye home from there sitting in the emergency exit row....which doesn't recline. Worst flight ever! Best vacation ever though!
well, i;m always throughly depressed to leave vacations, unless i have something exciting to go back home to. (which isn't all that often, and that only takes 3/4ths of my pain anyway anyhow...)
i remeber our family went camping somewhere really pretty...and i was probably about...say 9? i'm not sure. anyways, i was totally crying. that memory, though the vacation was nothing compared to others, is the most vivid in my mind to date...
i need a holiday from real.
bring it.
:)
London, UK (Study Abroad)... it had become my home, so obviously I was attached. So attached, in fact, that it totally weirded me out being back in America and seeing people drive on the right side of the road. Let's just say my first couple of times back behind the wheel were entertaining.
I come to your blog often and never leave a comment. For some reason this particular topic called to me. I can not go on a plane and not request my complimentary dixie cup of ginger ale. I have never bought ginger ale in a store nor do I ever think about ginger ale but for what ever reason I order it on a plane. Wierd.
Vacation's End = Reality. Yuck. Who wants to [once again] have to wake up early, watch what they eat, and sit at home alone while their suntan slowly ebbs away?
I had an epiphany a few weeks ago. (Yes, it took me 29 years to figure this out.) I was also pondering the Ginger Ale phenom. My mom ordered it for us as kids, and I order now. Every trip.
Oh yeah...to the epiphany.
GINGER is supposed to settle your stomach! That's why they serve GINGER ALE! For the queasy traveler! That HAS to be the reason because why else would they stock a drink no one normally likes? Especially when they could offer ROOT BEER! (Have you noticed they never have Root Beer? It's by FAR more popular than G.A.)
Anyway, Doug doesn't believe me, but I'm pretty positive.
Oh, and coming home from San Diego two weeks ago was soooooooooooo hard for me! It pains me just thinking about it...:(
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