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Vacation Memories

 
Do you take vacations or “staycations”? What’s your favorite place that you’ve visited? What time of year do you prefer to travel? Do you like to travel alone or with family and friends? Upload a photo from the vacation or “staycation” you enjoyed most!

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Replied By: mommatoad on Jun 15, 2013, 11:08AM
My favorite place to go is Hawaii's O'ahu Haunauma Bay, best time is early in the morning when parking is best and the tides low. There's a hidden spot just around the left side of the bay where an ancient lava tube connected to the ocean fills a deep medium size bowl with water, flushes it then recedes back out - hence its name "The Toilet Bowl" - Its a riot for families as incoming tide eventually spills over the sides depositing anyone inside up and over the rim and onto the smooth lava. Bring your cammera, drinking water and a good pair of shoes as its a rocky walk to reach the spot.
 
Replied By: mommatoad on Jun 15, 2013, 11:08AM
My favorite place to go is Hawaii's O'ahu Haunauma Bay, best time is early in the morning when parking is best and the tides low. There's a hidden spot just around the left side of the bay where an ancient lava tube connected to the ocean fills a deep medium size bowl with water, flushes it then recedes back out - hence its name "The Toilet Bowl" - Its a riot for families as incoming tide eventually spills over the sides depositing anyone inside up and over the rim and onto the smooth lava. Bring your cammera, drinking water and a good pair of shoes as its a rocky walk to reach the spot.
 
Replied By: mommatoad on Jun 15, 2013, 11:08AM
My favorite place to go is Hawaii's O'ahu Haunauma Bay, best time is early in the morning when parking is best and the tides low. There's a hidden spot just around the left side of the bay where an ancient lava tube connected to the ocean fills a deep medium size bowl with water, flushes it then recedes back out - hence its name "The Toilet Bowl" - Its a riot for families as incoming tide eventually spills over the sides depositing anyone inside up and over the rim and onto the smooth lava. Bring your cammera, drinking water and a good pair of shoes as its a rocky walk to reach the spot.
 
Replied By: mommatoad on Jun 15, 2013, 11:08AM
My favorite place to go is Hawaii's O'ahu Haunauma Bay, best time is early in the morning when parking is best and the tides low. There's a hidden spot just around the left side of the bay where an ancient lava tube connected to the ocean fills a deep medium size bowl with water, flushes it then recedes back out - hence its name "The Toilet Bowl" - Its a riot for families as incoming tide eventually spills over the sides depositing anyone inside up and over the rim and onto the smooth lava. Bring your cammera, drinking water and a good pair of shoes as its a rocky walk to reach the spot.
 
Replied By: mmorgan79936 on Jun 4, 2013, 3:37PM
 
We go on many vacations as a family. We have been to some beautiful places. Since my husband is still in the Army and I am retired I am the one who takes the boys. My husband is gone a lot deployed 5 years out of the last 9. This leaves him as "not a vacation fan" for long trips. I took the boys on a 43 day trip starting in OK ending up in New york visiting all the 911 crash sites, we went to all the amusement parks and points of interest along the way and stayed in the Yogi Bear campgrounds every night. We just packed a tent and 1 suitcase per person and went. It was so awesome! We did the same thing last summer but we went to California and again camped out every night along the beaches. My son even got to play basketball for a week with Michael Jordan! Another great trip!
But the one trip I went to with a girlfriend was probably the best most relaxing trip I ever went on. For the first time I went on a girlfriends trip and we went to Vegas. It was great and now I am going to look for 1 girlfriends trip a year!
 
Replied By: lilacflowers3 on Jun 4, 2013, 7:10AM
these people on the show today do not  follow GOD'S ten commandants  the woman was an adultrer
 
Replied By: glendiphora on May 23, 2013, 5:05PM
My youngest son is 17 and has never been on vacation with us as a family. My husband and I just got divorced in April after 18 years of marriage in which we NEVER had the money to take any kind of family vacation. It's was and is even harder for us now monetarily and because I am disabled and don't drive.   Vacations are a wonderful family builder, I only wish we'd have found the way to take the children to Disney in Florida; it is such an awesome place! I went when I was younger and have never forgotten it. If I could give advice to another parent out there with younger children: Take the vacation when the children are younger and your marriage is in tact because you never know what tomorrow will bring. Trust me, the bills will still be there when you get back.
 
Replied By: maree28 on Feb 1, 2013, 12:09AM - In reply to booboopuppy
I wish you and your husband a lovely honeymoon. What lovely parents you are that you waited. Some parents would leave the child behind. You are a shining example.
 
Replied By: booboopuppy on Nov 13, 2012, 10:03AM
A few months ago, my husband and I decided to finally schedule a vacation for just the two of us. When we got married, 8 years ago, his son was 10 years old and so every vacation we took since the wedding has been a family trip. Now that my stepson is older and doesn't really want to go with us, we've decided to go on our long overdue honeymoon the Summer of 2013.

Interestingly enough, some of the vacation spots I'd been researching have been obliterated by Superstorm Sandy. As luck would have it, I ended up finding a great place, right on a quiet beach, on Cape Cod. I can't wait to walk out at low tide and be witness to some beautiful sunsets with my wonderful husband.
 
Replied By: geniesjs on Sep 25, 2012, 10:12AM
I rarely go anywhere but love taking photos of the outdoors, close to Mark Twain Lake in MO..
 
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