[speaker001:] Lynn do you do you want to start
[speaker002:] certainly um
[speaker001:] okay do you want to tell me about some of the vacations you've taken or
[speaker002:] well I I tend to uh take two kinds of vacations the vacations to visit family and the vacations to just have a week being cultural and going to the theater and doing sightseeing and things like that
[speaker001:] uh-huh which is your favorite
[speaker002:] oh well I couldn't live without the family vacations but uh my favorite is the the indulgent ones where we go off and and uh see places that have interested me since I was a kid for the most part
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] your your family doesn't live close then
[speaker002:] uh not anymore they uh they've been in San Diego for the last few years and they're moving to Florida
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and that's one of those things you just have to go once a year
[speaker001:] yep I understand
[speaker002:] so uh basically it it sorts out into that and then once about once every three or four years I try to get over to England because I lived there for a while
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] some years back
[speaker001:] I've only only been there once
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I'd love to go back
[speaker002:] beautiful country beautiful country beautiful people
[speaker001:] it was yeah it we had a great time
[speaker002:] but uh and I'd real really like to go because um I'm fairly recently married and and my husband has been hearing about these people for years and uh but he's never met them so uh I'd like I'd like to do that but anyway that's that's our typical vacation and uh we enjoy the family vacations but the other ones are very special getaways and we probably take one of each every year how about yourself
[speaker001:] well we we as you do take family vacations uh sometimes one a year and but this year we're not going to be taking one for several reasons but vacations we really enjoy I think we've been on three cruises
[speaker002:] oh I've never been on a cruise
[speaker001:] and we we really love cruises we've gone on Carnival Cruise Lines
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh we've gone fairly inexpensive from as most cruises go uh we usually book just a month before it's ready to go
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and we get upgraded last time last two times in fact we had an outside room and it was beautiful
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] and we like not having to take our suitcase in and out of hotel rooms and drag it all around it's kind of
[speaker002:] well what do you do on a cruise I've never been on a cruise
[speaker001:] oh my God you do everything you I mean you can be as busy as you want to be or as laid back as you want to be you can sit in the sun all day around the pool or you can take part in the games that they have going on they always have bingo they have a casino uh they have a massage parlor they have exercise I mean you can do anything
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] and that's just aboard ship and then when the ship docks you get to go sight seeing and shopping and that's quite fun
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh and where have you been on these cruises
[speaker001:] uh Nassau San Juan Saint Thomas we've been there twice we went two cruises that hit those islands but with different people we we've gone with friends each time
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] and then we went to uh the western Caribbean which is uh Port uh Cancun Cozumel
[speaker002:] oh the the Mexican coast
[speaker001:] and Ocho Rios pardon me
[speaker002:] I the that's all Mexico I think
[speaker001:] yes uh-huh and but it was wonderful so we really like those and uh I guess we just like to go someplace someplace entirely different we've been to a few places in this country we still have a lot to see though
[speaker002:] where are you from originally
[speaker001:] we're from Illinois originally
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and we've been down in Texas eighteen years and so like you we we always try to make it you know back home to see the relatives we both still have family there
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that's fun it brings back a lot of memories
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] uh things are different there though they're uh I don't know it's just entirely different world than this area
[speaker002:] well I I grew up in Dallas so I mean it's not it's not like I'm going home my my parents retired first to San Diego and they're going now to Florida and so they're going very nice places thank God
[speaker001:] did you uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] that will be a pleasure to visit and get to know I really came to love San Diego and feel very comfortable there they've been there eight years
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh you know I just grab the car and drive everywhere
[speaker001:] oh that's great
[speaker002:] so it it is it is nice but it's not home this is home and um and I've never thought about a cruise it's so funny
[speaker001:] oh they they they really are we've yeah as I said we've done them three times we'd be going again this this year if circumstances hadn't changed we we'd probably go my husband would you know the minute I said the word he he he's chomping at the bit
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] he kind of likes the casinos a little bit
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but I like all of it and
[speaker002:] what's the best part from your point of view
[speaker001:] I like seeing other countries and shopping in other places
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I like shopping I can shop anyplace shop in London and France and wherever now my kids are moving to Toronto so we're going to be able to go up there
[speaker002:] oh that'll be nice
[speaker001:] so I'm kind of looking forward to that except I hate to see them go
[speaker002:] oh sure
[speaker001:] but
[speaker002:] sure well go in don't go in the winter
[speaker001:] oh that's what everybody says and I I think it's I think I'll try to stay away except my my second grandchild will be born in in the winter in January
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] so that will be hard to stay away from
[speaker002:] well there there are exceptions made for special occasions like that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but the ordinary thing is to stay out of the north in the winter and get out of Texas in the summer so
[speaker001:] isn't that the truth uh-huh
[speaker002:] hum well that sounds wonderful well I I guess I I would contemplate going on a cruise uh oh all circumstances permitting it
[speaker001:] well there's all age group groups too and that's that's kind of fun uh you if you sit at a table with a lot of people for your meals you meet different people you may meet people you know thirty years older than you or younger and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] everybody is really interesting and everybody is there to have a good time and
[speaker002:] huh how long are the cruises
[speaker001:] and uh we've only gone on the seven day cruises
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] they have shorter ones and then they have ten day ones but I think seven days is long enough for us by that time we're ready to get home and get ba ck to our routine I think most vacations uh seven days is enough for us we've gone I think when we went to England and France we were there ten twelve days and that was pushing it a bit
[speaker002:] yeah yeah uh I tend when when I spend enough money to go overseas I go for a long time
[speaker001:] yeah well that that makes sense it really does I mean oh we went to Panama too
[speaker002:] oh that's interesting
[speaker001:] went to Panama last August
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] our son-in-law is from Panama
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and uh he we went with our daughter and son-in-law to visit his parents who live there and his father is a a doctor and his mother is a kindergarten teacher and they took time off it was
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] their winter and they were having a little break so they took some time off that uh they could show us around and it it is a beautiful country it is beautiful they have mountains we were an hour away from the mountains or an hour away from the shore
[speaker002:] huh that's really nice
[speaker001:] and it it is gorgeous they live in a small town called David which is northern Panama up near Costa Rica
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh it's it's just it's just a gorgeous country most people don't realize it I think if they could get tourists coming to their country they'd improve the economy considerably
[speaker002:] huh well may maybe now things are calming down again that will happen
[speaker001:] yeah we really hope hope so
[speaker002:] well that that's really great um
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I I mean as I said well well basically all I've done is go back and forth to parents and uh
[speaker001:] well that that's that's pretty good that's pretty good
[speaker002:] and and uh we had my husband had a conference in LA so we spent a week in LA and of course
[speaker001:] oh do you like LA
[speaker002:] uh I'm very I'm I'm very unusual I like