new this week?

Not much, I was in South Carolina for three days but am back now and trying to get things done so that I can blow this office by tomorrow at noon.  We are going up north to Charlevoix for the Venetian festival.  I have never been but Louis and Carole go every year and they (ok, not Lou, but Carole was) were kind enough to get us to reserve for this years festival.  I will report when we get back on how it goes.

We were also trying to reserve something around the same area for the week because Jack has a wine tasting in Traverse on Wednesday, but ofcourse, since we started our search like ten days ago, we found a whole lot of places that were not available until August 21st.  We couldn't understand any of them at first because they were all laughing so hard at our request for dates!!!  Any one who claims that there are problems with the tourism trade in northern Michigan, has not tried to reserve anything in July. 

We are gathering information for a Christmas trip to Tahiti.  My father (of all people) expressed an interest in going and I jumped all over it.  So the five of us and my parents are planning a December trip.  Anyone with any information, please forward it to me.  Dad is appalled, ofcourse, because he was expressing interest in going someday, not necessarily planning on going this year.  How many days are we going to have left to go on vacation with my parents?  Hopefully many, but we cannot take any of them for granted, so we are planning on going now.    I am going to try and get some of my brothers to join us, but I am pretty sure that they are all petrified at the idea of actually going on vacation anywhere with me. 

Thats it for now.