Travel Plans 2025

Windigo said:
As soon as we're done with everything the death of my MIL gave us to do (selling her house etc) we'll go on a well deserved 2 weeks of holiday to either Germany or France.
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How's your husband holding up? It's a terribly sad thing, my DH is still having a hard time getting through the grieving process and the finalization of everything. It's not easy.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
How's your husband holding up? It's a terribly sad thing, my DH is still having a hard time getting through the grieving process and the finalization of everything. It's not easy.
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He's OK, his mother wasn't very loving. He's been sad a little, but also says he can only grieve when everything has been done and I can imagine that. He's the funeral director so we had to do everything and have basically been running around every day the past week and can only start resting this weekend.
I hope that when life returns to normal he gets to connect to his feelings more. I try to be away from the house a little more often because he says he's best at grieving when he's alone and that's the same for me.
 
Windigo said:
I hope that when life returns to normal he gets to connect to his feelings more. I try to be away from the house a little more often because he says he's best at grieving when he's alone and that's the same for me.
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It's a dreadful thing when a family member passes. I went through it 4 times over the past 2 years, but the first two, I had to visit the funeral parlour, inform the family, make the arrangements for the funeral, attend the funeral itself and, the most excruciating of all, toss earth on my parents' coffins.
It's a ghastly,nerve-wracking, soul-destroying task; but it has to be done in order to get closure and, eventually, peace of mind.
I wish you and your husband inner strength for your grieving. You will find peace as long as you let go. 💑
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Yeah, you just got your Australian citizenship within the past couple years, right?
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Yes. 2½ years now. It just makes life a lot easier especially getting back into Australia after you've been overseas.

Plus, and most people don't realise this, that with a permanent residency visa, they give you the first 5 years in and out of the country, but if you want to leave in years 5-10, you have to pay almost as much again as the PR visa cost in the first place. So it made more sense to us, to just put that money to being citizens instead.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Yes. 2½ years now. It just makes life a lot easier especially getting back into Australia after you've been overseas.

Plus, and most people don't realise this, that with a permanent residency visa, they give you the first 5 years in and out of the country, but if you want to leave in years 5-10, you have to pay almost as much again as the PR visa cost in the first place. So it made more sense to us, to just put that money to being citizens instead.
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Yeah now you're pretty much settled and have happy chooks...plus intensely studying.
 
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I've put my foot down for our Travel Plans 2025 ... I want to take at least two trips this coming year!
When I looked at the pricing of the River Boat Cruises, I just about chocked! NOPE! That's out!
Plan A) Road Trip to The Up-Mackinac Island is my preference
Plan B) Road Trip through Idaho and back again
We did have Plan B in place last September, but life got in the way, so ...
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
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I've put my foot down for our Travel Plans 2025 ... I want to take at least two trips this coming year!
When I looked at the pricing of the River Boat Cruises, I just about chocked! NOPE! That's out!
Plan A) Road Trip to The Up-Mackinac Island is my preference
Plan B) Road Trip through Idaho and back again
We did have Plan B in place last September, but life got in the way, so ...
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Whatever the adventure it will be worth it!
 
DH's cousin in Phoenix (Arizona) invited us out for Christmas, but DH doesn't think it's going to work. Middle daughter is flying in from the 16th to the 22nd, but I really don't know how much we will see of her since she tends to go off and visit friends and other family when she's in town and she will be staying at her younger sister's house across town. Plus, 2 of those days are travel days so she's really only here for 5 days. He was saying we wouldn't be able to leave until the 23rd but I pointed all that out to him, plus even if we saw her on the 21st, she's leaving on the 22nd so we could fly out that day too. I'd like to stay gone until mid January. I will keep working on him about it and check flights.

December in AZ isn't warm that time of year but it's significantly warmer there than it is here!
 
One of our cats had been ill (she developed asthma) but she’s stable and doing well enough that the vet has given us the OK to take a weekend trip with a pet sitter looking after her. It’s going to be a bit of a test to see how the cat does with being given her puffers by a stranger.

We’re headed to Prince Edward County. We were last there for our 10 year wedding anniversary so that would be 7 years ago. I’ve booked us into a country inn, and our only planned activity is a wine tour - other than that we mostly plan on just relaxing. It’s also a good time to go - April is shoulder season so it’s less busy.
 
Herbaceous said:
One of our cats had been ill (she developed asthma) but she’s stable and doing well enough that the vet has given us the OK to take a weekend trip with a pet sitter looking after her. It’s going to be a bit of a test to see how the cat does with being given her puffers by a stranger.
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that must be as hard as my sister having to nebulise her dog twice a day. just getting her to accept the noise was hard enough, but getting a mask over her face as well was a huge challenge
 
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