The Hold-Out

When we were on our honeymoon last year, Mike told me that this year I could pick where we go on our family vacation, the only stipulation, we both agreed, was it should be somewhere "fairlee" close to home. When Mike's job decided to send him to Macanaw this year, we decided to go as a family, have a weekend of fun and then the evenings after he is done for the day. I assumed we would just count that as our vacation.......fast forward to this morning when we were on our way to pick Steven up from camp (he had a fabulous time and can't wait for next year). We stopped at a rest area, and while I was waiting for Mike, I began browsing the tourist brouchers. My little eye spied right away one labeled "Santa Clause, IN". Well, hold the phone... Pete and I love Christmas, this sounds promising. Oh, yeah. Big Christmas store (like Bronners), a campground on Lake Roudolph, right next to the Holiday Time Theme Park, and the campground has a light show set to music at night. Out comes Mike fromt the bathroom to the ambush "You've been holding out on me, why didn't you ever tell me about Santa Clause, IN?" Needless to say, reservations were made this morning, and we are all set for a weekend of Christmas fun...in the middle of summer.