The Memories Last Forever
As all fairy tales must come to an end, so did ours. We had enjoyed almost three weeks of amazing sights, fun travel companions, and delicious food. Our three generations had thoroughly enjoyed our second Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door tour. Following our tradition, before we left the land of pretzels and apple strudel, we were already planning our next European adventure.
The wonderful thing about these family vacations is that we have a special connection whenever we see a reminder from the trip and it brings the memories into our everyday life. When the weather is foggy, we remember together how foggy it was in Switzerland. Seeing Lindt chocolates at the grocery store immediately takes us back to our picnics. When a movie scene appears with a location of one of our trips, we give each other a knowing glance of "WE WERE THERE!"
What we have learned is that Europe is just a plane ride away. We realized we had a choice of sitting at home watching Rick on PBS, or getting on that plane and living our fantasy. Our pockets do not bulge with gold, we are just humble school teachers with fairytale dreams. We however, with Rick's help, turned our dreams into reality...
The wonderful thing about these family vacations is that we have a special connection whenever we see a reminder from the trip and it brings the memories into our everyday life. When the weather is foggy, we remember together how foggy it was in Switzerland. Seeing Lindt chocolates at the grocery store immediately takes us back to our picnics. When a movie scene appears with a location of one of our trips, we give each other a knowing glance of "WE WERE THERE!"
What we have learned is that Europe is just a plane ride away. We realized we had a choice of sitting at home watching Rick on PBS, or getting on that plane and living our fantasy. Our pockets do not bulge with gold, we are just humble school teachers with fairytale dreams. We however, with Rick's help, turned our dreams into reality...
...and they live happily ever after.
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