We Decided on a Vacation Spot

So we went to my father's for dinner and had a "family meeting" to decide where to go on vacation last night.

(Incidentally, this is the man who never cooked a thing other than breakfast his whole life.  After my Mom died he had to learn from scratch how to cook.  And now he's gotten so good, he's making us dinner!  Smart man that he is, he has discovered Allrecipes.com and made this last night for us: Slow Cooker Chicken Continental - it was SO GOOD!!!  He used "Buddig Beef" though, instead of the jarred dry beef, and he made it with rice.  I can't believe now I'm getting recipes from my father!)

Anyway, it was rather difficult to come to a decision for two reasons. Number one: we had great choices - how to choose from all great ideas?  Number two: it was one of those instances where we all are very nice to one another and no one wanted to say "well I want to do THIS", you know what I mean?  It ended up coming down to my father using a wooden spoon and pot as a gavel, and then we started using the wooden spoon to pass around as the indicator of whose turn it was to talk, but we finally decided on Chincoteague, VA.  My Dad is going to call today to see if the rental house is still available for the times we chose.  If it turns out it's not available and we have to choose another, all I can say is, God help us.

(I was remembering an incident from last year when we were coming back from vacation and we were behind a car with one of the  "X-cargo" type carriers on top.  And yup - you guessed it - it came FLYING OFF going down the highway right toward us.  Luckily DH was able to steer clear of it but now I'm scared to ever follow anyone with one of those.  I don't know how those things attach to a car, but it ought to be with ball lock pins or something easy and secure, rather than the band-aids and chewing gum or whatever that person in front of us had used!!!  Totally dangerous!!!)
 
Also, our fantasy Nascar draft was last night.  I was actually pretty bummed with my roster, although I did get my favorite driver (Dale Earnhart Jr.).  For any Nascar fans out there, don't forget, the Bud Shootout is tonight (8pm EST) and tomorrow is cup series qualifying for the Daytona.  Anyway, here's my fantasy roster for this year:
 

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Ryan Newman

Bobby Labonte

Joey Logano

Robby Gordon

Tony Raines

 
Well, there are a couple of drivers on there that could be "sleepers", so maybe my team will be better than I think.  The first year we played the fantasy league I actually won and my Dad bought a plastic Tiara for me as the prize.  So of course the next year I decided I should pass on the Tiara to the new winner (who was my BIL).  So now that is the coveted prize for the champion of our fantasy league.  The last winner of the Tiara was DH, so he'll have to go dust it off.
 
I still can't wait for the Iditarod though!
  
Happy Weekend everyone!
 
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