2:33pm
Saint Paul
You won’t believe how this Spring Break trip is working out.
Hint: it’s not the best.
First, we have a trip to Puerto Vallarta booked with a cousin’s family: two adults, their kids, plus my wife and myself and our two kids. So, 4 and 4.
(These are the same cousins we traveled to South Carolina with when we got hit by Hurricane Debbie.)
Ok so we’re set for this year’s Spring Break.
Yay!
Then… Puerto Vallarta goes haywire when the local narcotrafficante gets killed just weeks before we travel.
Wife-o-mine says there is no way we’re bringing our kids into a warzone.
Whaaaa?
Ok so we call Expedia. No cancelo.
We call the hotel. No cancelo.
We call the credit card company: Level 3 Terror Alert? Do Not Travel Advisory from the Government? Burning Cars?
¡No problemo! they tell us.
Airline? Crédito.
We seem to be set.
Let’s go on a cruise to the Bajamas!
Cousins book the cruise ship, get a room.
We try to book… No rooms left for 4 people!
The cousins got the last one.
Ok, they cancel their room on the cruise.
Let’s all go to Orlando!
Orlando?
Orlando.
We have kids, it makes sense I guess.
We book hotel.
We book flights.
We book a rental van for 8 people.
Then we get a letter from the bank:
Nah, your México trip? Sí problemo. No refundamos los fundos.
So we’re out a few… bucks.
But after cancelling EVERYTHING during the c*vid clampdown a few years ago, our son has ZERO FAITH in, well, any activity EVER happening.
So there is NO WAY we’re going to stay home, curse or no curse.
Love you,
Jeffrey G Thomas
Direct Response Copywriter and Growth Partner