Yup. 4th trip in this calendar year. If you are a regular traveling friend of Brifraz, you know that this year we've done our daughter's 21st Birthday trip, the Princess Half weekend, and a Graduation/Retirement Celebration trip. What does that mean? Well... it means that we've left @MeffysMom out of the celebrating and that just isn't right. Coincidentally, her birthday is coming up later this week. And, someone happened to look online the right day and time and found some great airline fares. So... I think you can likely figure out where this is leading.
It's another long weekend in the World for the Brifraz Clan!!
Flying down on Thursday afternoon, doing some special events on both Friday and Saturday nights and flying back on Sunday evening. No Pre-Trip for you this time, I'm going to keep you in suspense of our plans. Suffice to say, after the Summer of Splurge on activities, we are perhaps making the sequel - maybe the Evenings of Excess? And as a tease, I'll mention that one of those excess activities is one that we had hoped for this summer, but didn't manage to do.
But, I will give everyone a little udpate on the clan and where we now stand. @MeffysMom is still teaching high school English full time and still really enjoys her classes (all seniors this year and 2 classes of the AP Research course that she loves teaching). Our daughter now has gotten a full time job as an engineer and moved into her own apartment about a month ago - both the job and the apartment are about an hour away from where we live. I am now doing three part time 'retirement' jobs - teaching two bands at the local college, mentoring two new teachers in the district I retired from, and teaching private lessons to a few kids. It actually looks quite likely that my college job will be expanding next year so we feel a little better about doing some more higher end activities.
It really is a bit crazy that we will have 4 trips this year, but sometimes things work out in good ways! I'll do my best to 'live report' starting Thursday and I'll see you all then!
It's another long weekend in the World for the Brifraz Clan!!
Flying down on Thursday afternoon, doing some special events on both Friday and Saturday nights and flying back on Sunday evening. No Pre-Trip for you this time, I'm going to keep you in suspense of our plans. Suffice to say, after the Summer of Splurge on activities, we are perhaps making the sequel - maybe the Evenings of Excess? And as a tease, I'll mention that one of those excess activities is one that we had hoped for this summer, but didn't manage to do.
But, I will give everyone a little udpate on the clan and where we now stand. @MeffysMom is still teaching high school English full time and still really enjoys her classes (all seniors this year and 2 classes of the AP Research course that she loves teaching). Our daughter now has gotten a full time job as an engineer and moved into her own apartment about a month ago - both the job and the apartment are about an hour away from where we live. I am now doing three part time 'retirement' jobs - teaching two bands at the local college, mentoring two new teachers in the district I retired from, and teaching private lessons to a few kids. It actually looks quite likely that my college job will be expanding next year so we feel a little better about doing some more higher end activities.
It really is a bit crazy that we will have 4 trips this year, but sometimes things work out in good ways! I'll do my best to 'live report' starting Thursday and I'll see you all then!
