The Hou- is for Houston, TX (area we live)
The Cuse- I'm a Syracuse U Alum
And Chickie is my favorite of my nicknames
-I'm awful with giving people pronunciations
As for trip lengths- it depends on where we're going. Vegas and NOLA are never more than 4 days. Those are almost always kid free trips + there's only so much of that you can take. 1 wk seems to be DH's max for WDW and FL or the northeastern US in general. Ski trips would be 5 days to a little over a week...only so much of that which I can take. Yellowstone and Grand Teton was a week and a half. We were looking at that range or a little longer for Alaska and the UK. Hawaii and Australia would be best for at least 2 wks, but we'll have to see how things go. We went to Europe once for a little over 3 wks and DH was begging to go home towards the end of wk 2. We want to travel more now that the kids are a little bit older, but TX is very strict on attendance laws, so we'll see.