[speaker001:] where did you go on your last vacation
[speaker002:] um let's see uh the last vacation I started to started to take I say uh was with a friend of mine uh we were going to go down to uh South Padre and we got down there and it was rainy and yucky and we decided just turn around and come back
[speaker001:] oh now that's someplace I've never been I'd like to go down there
[speaker002:] yeah it's
[speaker001:] see I've only only lived here in Texas for two years so I haven't had a chance to go down there
[speaker002:] yeah yes it's it's a it's a really fun place it's as long as it's not raining
[speaker001:] yeah what do you do down there
[speaker002:] oh sit out by the little on the beach
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah and uh there's lots of really good places to eat and uh
[speaker001:] well
[speaker002:] I haven't really had a chance to check out any of the the real entertainment or anything but uh uh it's there's lots of you know areas to do things on South Padre itself
[speaker001:] yeah hm well I'm getting ready to go to Arizona for Christmas and in in New Mexico we're going to do some skiing so I'm real anxious to do that
[speaker002:] I have never been skiing
[speaker001:] oh it's a lot well last year was the first time I've ever gone and it was so much fun I really enjoyed it I took a lesson the first day and then the second day I was up on the beginer's slope but it looks it it you think that that uh you wonder what those people are doing on the mountain you know but you get up there yourself and it's so much fun
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] makes makes you feel like a kid again
[speaker002:] and the good people make it look easy
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you're going hey how do I stand up bump
[speaker001:] so I'm really anxious to go skiing again
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] you you remember how you were when you were a kid and you went down a sled
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well that's the way you feel on skis
[speaker002:] that's how I felt when I tried to go water when I the first time I went water skiing so
[speaker001:] oh now see I haven't done that
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I haven't been water skiing
[speaker002:] water water skiing's a blast
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you just a a little bit of of uh upper arm stamina just to to hold on to the ropes so the boat doesn't jerk your arms out of socket and
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] you have a lot of fun
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well where all have you been on vacation have you been to Disneyland
[speaker002:] oh with with my family I've gone down to Florida I think it I think they have the Disneyworld down there
[speaker001:] yeah I haven't been down there
[speaker002:] long before they ever put in EPCOT Center and all the fun stuff
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and uh I've been to Washington DC and and all
[speaker001:] oh now see I haven't been there either
[speaker002:] all all through that area uh and I've been up through the Yellowstone and all the national parks up that way
[speaker001:] gee you've been around a lot
[speaker002:] yeah and we went as far as Canada on that trip and I've been all over Texas there's there's there's nowhere in Texas I haven't been I don't think except some of the far west Texas little pin holes
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] have you been to Carlsbad Caverns
[speaker002:] yeah I've been there
[speaker001:] yeah well
[speaker002:] at least once uh the the only place I haven't been really is California and New York
[speaker001:] well you didn't miss anything I've been to both places you didn't miss anything
[speaker002:] the the two yeah the the
[speaker001:] just lots of people
[speaker002:] the only thing that really I've I've been in California but I've never vacationed there got on an airplane here in Dallas and landed in California and uh then got on a cruise ship went up and down the coast a couple of times
[speaker001:] oh shoot you went on a cruise
[speaker002:] yeah my
[speaker001:] you've done everything
[speaker002:] my parents took me on a cruise when I was in the sixth grade it was such a good deal they just couldn't pass it up
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah it it wasn't that great of a cruise actually it was it was seven days and I was fairly bored at at my age it it wasn't that much fun because there weren't a lot of kids on there at that time of year I was it was during the school year so
[speaker001:] yeah yeah oh but I'll bet it was interesting out there on the boat in the water and everything
[speaker002:] yeah yeah seeing the dolphins and stuff like that it was great at the time though because I got out of school for a week
[speaker001:] yeah you still uh-huh you still learned a lot  well then you haven't been to Disneyland in California then have you
[speaker002:] no I haven't
[speaker001:] well now that's someplace you should go
[speaker002:] hum-um
[speaker001:] that's really neat
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I moved over there I lived there for a little while real close to there and we would we would just like five miles from there and we would drive down there and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and the kids they I have two sons and they were on the newspaper route and they'd keep giving them uh passes to get in